Jamal Awil

← A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962

The Sakiet bombing unwittingly internationalized the Algerian war. [causal]

No effort of Yazid or Chanderli, or of the whole F.L.N. leadership to date, could have done more to “internationalise” the war than the French bombing of Sakiet. It also set in motion the chain of events that led directly to the final disintegration of the Fourth Republic. For what preceded this gross miscalculation, and its potent consequences, one must return to the French army in Algeria.

QUESTION: What specific chain of events did the Sakiet bombing trigger that led to the Fourth Republic's collapse?

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 780