“One could no longer move,” stated one of Mohand Ou El-Hadj’s lieutenants: … One no longer ate. I was so weak that I could no longer even manage to carry my sub-machine-gun. The establishment of military posts, the multiplying of self-defence communities and intelligence agents was making life impossible, and even survival itself…. It was only by executing traitors one after the other that we did manage to survive. But one was never able to regain the initiative.

DEFINE: Illustrates the 'ratissage'/suffocation strategy where military posts and informants starved guerrillas of movement and supplies.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 1015