When I was engaged in the struggle for my country, I was very young. My horizons were open.
AHMED BEN BELLAI am a Muslim Arab, in my actions oriented very to the left, in my convictions.
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Yes, I am Algerian of Moroccan origin through my parents, but all my life is Algeria. I was born there.
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I am not a Marxist, but I place myself resolutely at the left.
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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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The liberation movement which I led in Algeria, the organization that I created to fight the French army, was at first a small movement of nothing at all.
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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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Yes, my life is a life of combat; I can say that this has never stopped for a single instant. It is a combat that started for me at the age of 16.
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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.
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I think that they participated in something that was not very proper and was very pitiful, not only for the Algerian people, but also for the other people who counted on our support.
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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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The French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years.
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This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies.
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At that precise moment, several countries were still colonised or had barely overcome colonisation. This was the case in practically all of Africa. We supported them.
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I spent 24 and a half years in prison
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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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This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.
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