In accordance with peace-time standing orders, their rifles were unloaded and the ammunition sewn up in their pouches. With never a chance to get a round off, they were mown down — the first army personnel to be killed in the Algerian war.

XREF: Connects to broader settler-colonial violence histories and the irony of peacetime protocols causing wartime deaths.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 268