| | The repressions, far from calling a halt to the forward rush of national consciousness, urge it on... The masses give free rein to their 'bloodthirsty instincts' and force colonialism to free their leaders, to whom falls the difficult task of bringing them back to order... The enemy, in fact, changes his tactics. At the opportune moments he combines his policy of brutal repression with spectacular gestures of friendship, manoeuvres calculated to sow division, and 'psychological action' . Here and there he tries with success to revive tribal feuds, using agents provocateurs and practising what might be called counter-subversion... the enemy tries to win the support of certain sectors of the population, of certain districts and of certain chiefs (Frantz Fanon, 1961). |
