Jamal Awil

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Executed ALN colonels were deliberately expunged from official memory. [fact]

It is worth noting that, while fulsome tributes were paid to Amirouche and Si Haouès by Krim and others in succeeding issues of El Moudjahid, no reference was made to the execution of the four A.L.N. colonels.

QUESTION: What were the political circumstances behind the execution of the four ALN colonels, and why was it suppressed while others were honored? This suggests an internal power struggle worth investigating.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 997