The Insurgent Among Us
From September 1955 to May 1960, I served as a warrior in fighting units, as a regular and as a commando, a headquarters "secretary" (coordinator) at various command-and-control levels, a political commissar, and an intelligence and communication officer. Of the six wilayas (insurgent zones) of the revolutionary organization chart, wilaya 4 was the pivot around which the Algerian insurgency revolved. I contributed to the creation, development, and organizations of wilaya 4, which included Algiers and the surrounding areas.
Then, during one of the numerous purges inside the Front de libration nationale (FLN), where educated maquisards were massacred by the hundreds, I was arrested and transferred to the FLN's Services de contre-infiltration de contre-espionage (SCICE, Counterinfiltration and Counterespionage Center), a torture and killing machine in charge of annihilating the "intellectual Gallicising traitors." These supposed traitors were young students who joined the resistance movement during the student strikes and the Battle of Algiers. I experienced the hell that is torture, beginning on 19 March 1960 and continuing for more than two weeks. And then on 6 May 1960, I managed to escape and surrendered to a French military post, where I was welcomed by Colonel Jacques Drion.
I opted to continue my armed struggle, turning against an FLN that had ceased to represent the interests of the Algerian people and the revolution as it was conceived initially. The FLN leadership in Algeria had become a proxy tool, serving a group of extremists nicknamed the planqués, which can be translated as "shirkers." They resided either in Morocco or in Tunisia and sat out the worst of the fighting, and then, they claimed undeserved glory. The race for power had become their only revolutionary criterion. They believed in power at any price, by any means—and specifically by the elimination of those who remained faithful to the initial democratic objectives of the revolution.
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Then, during one of the numerous purges inside the Front de libration nationale (FLN), where educated maquisards were massacred by the hundreds, I was arrested and transferred to the FLN's Services de contre-infiltration de contre-espionage (SCICE, Counterinfiltration and Counterespionage Center), a torture and killing machine in charge of annihilating the "intellectual Gallicising traitors." These supposed traitors were young students who joined the resistance movement during the student strikes and the Battle of Algiers. I experienced the hell that is torture, beginning on 19 March 1960 and continuing for more than two weeks. And then on 6 May 1960, I managed to escape and surrendered to a French military post, where I was welcomed by Colonel Jacques Drion.
I opted to continue my armed struggle, turning against an FLN that had ceased to represent the interests of the Algerian people and the revolution as it was conceived initially. The FLN leadership in Algeria had become a proxy tool, serving a group of extremists nicknamed the planqués, which can be translated as "shirkers." They resided either in Morocco or in Tunisia and sat out the worst of the fighting, and then, they claimed undeserved glory. The race for power had become their only revolutionary criterion. They believed in power at any price, by any means—and specifically by the elimination of those who remained faithful to the initial democratic objectives of the revolution.
The Insurgent Among Us
From September 1955 to May 1960, I served as a warrior in fighting units, as a regular and as a commando, a headquarters "secretary" (coordinator) at various command-and-control levels, a political commissar, and an intelligence and communication officer. Of the six wilayas (insurgent zones) of the revolutionary organization chart, wilaya 4 was the pivot around which the Algerian insurgency revolved. I contributed to the creation, development, and organizations of wilaya 4, which included Algiers and the surrounding areas.
Then, during one of the numerous purges inside the Front de libration nationale (FLN), where educated maquisards were massacred by the hundreds, I was arrested and transferred to the FLN's Services de contre-infiltration de contre-espionage (SCICE, Counterinfiltration and Counterespionage Center), a torture and killing machine in charge of annihilating the "intellectual Gallicising traitors." These supposed traitors were young students who joined the resistance movement during the student strikes and the Battle of Algiers. I experienced the hell that is torture, beginning on 19 March 1960 and continuing for more than two weeks. And then on 6 May 1960, I managed to escape and surrendered to a French military post, where I was welcomed by Colonel Jacques Drion.
I opted to continue my armed struggle, turning against an FLN that had ceased to represent the interests of the Algerian people and the revolution as it was conceived initially. The FLN leadership in Algeria had become a proxy tool, serving a group of extremists nicknamed the planqués, which can be translated as "shirkers." They resided either in Morocco or in Tunisia and sat out the worst of the fighting, and then, they claimed undeserved glory. The race for power had become their only revolutionary criterion. They believed in power at any price, by any means—and specifically by the elimination of those who remained faithful to the initial democratic objectives of the revolution.
Then, during one of the numerous purges inside the Front de libration nationale (FLN), where educated maquisards were massacred by the hundreds, I was arrested and transferred to the FLN's Services de contre-infiltration de contre-espionage (SCICE, Counterinfiltration and Counterespionage Center), a torture and killing machine in charge of annihilating the "intellectual Gallicising traitors." These supposed traitors were young students who joined the resistance movement during the student strikes and the Battle of Algiers. I experienced the hell that is torture, beginning on 19 March 1960 and continuing for more than two weeks. And then on 6 May 1960, I managed to escape and surrendered to a French military post, where I was welcomed by Colonel Jacques Drion.
I opted to continue my armed struggle, turning against an FLN that had ceased to represent the interests of the Algerian people and the revolution as it was conceived initially. The FLN leadership in Algeria had become a proxy tool, serving a group of extremists nicknamed the planqués, which can be translated as "shirkers." They resided either in Morocco or in Tunisia and sat out the worst of the fighting, and then, they claimed undeserved glory. The race for power had become their only revolutionary criterion. They believed in power at any price, by any means—and specifically by the elimination of those who remained faithful to the initial democratic objectives of the revolution.
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| BN ID: | 2940161478639 |
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| Publisher: | Remy Mauduit |
| Publication date: | 03/15/2019 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 1 MB |
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