The flight of the "Pieds-Noirs" dwarfed that of the Muslim harkis who had fought on the French side during the Algerian War. Of approximately 250,000 Muslim loyalists only about 90,000, including dependents, were able to escape to France; and of those who remained many thousands were killed by lynch mobs or executed as traitors by the FLN. In contrast to the treatment of the European "Pieds-Noirs", little effort was made by the French government to extend protection to the harkis or to arrange their organised evacuation.