I’m optimistic because I’m pragmatic: Neither of the two sides, the military government nor the Islamic front, is capable of winning. If they continue to fight, they will both bleed to death.
AHMED BEN BELLAThe French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years.
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I spent 24 and a half years in prison
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When I was engaged in the struggle for my country, I was very young. My horizons were open.
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It is obvious that taking the country from a state of war to being a lawful state won’t be easy.
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I am the son of poor peasants who came at a very young age to live in Algeria. I only recently saw the place where they were born, near the city of Marrakech.
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These are the multinationals, like General Motors and Nestle; these are the big industrial groups that weigh, on the monetary scale, much more than big countries like Egypt.
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I am not a Marxist, but I place myself resolutely at the left.
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In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well.
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I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.
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Let us all agree to die a little, or even completely so that African unity may not be a vain word
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I am a Muslim Arab, in my actions oriented very to the left, in my convictions.
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The French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years.
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This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.
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We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France
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Colonialism is an idea born in the West that drives Western countries – like France, Italy, Belgium, Great Britain – to occupy countries outside of Europe.
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Colonialism is known in its primitive form, that is to say, by the permanent settling of repressive foreign powers, with an army, services, policies.
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