The Battle of Algiers permanently foreclosed dialogue between colonizer and colonized. [causal]
But I failed. That was the last moment when I felt it might be possible to talk; after the Battle of Algiers it always seemed to be too late. For that was the moment when—Lacoste having handed over responsibility to the army—the French ceased to govern Algeria….
Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 679