By July 1959 over one million Muslim villagers had been transferred to "re-groupment camps", which varied from resembling the fortified villages of the Middle Ages to the concentration camps of a more recent past. In the latter conditions were nothing short of scandalous. Hunger first, and cold secondly, were the enemies. At one camp just outside Constantine, inmates were found eating grass in the field, and in the overcrowded, tented encampments for nomads of the south infants were often found dead of cold in the mornings. Tuberculosis and other ailments of malnutrition raged.

QUESTION: How did these camps compare numerically and systematically to other forced-resettlement campaigns of the 20th century? XREF: Connects to broader literature on colonial concentration camps (Spanish in Cuba, British in South Africa) and forcible resettlement.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 1021