We trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks.
AHMED BEN BELLAI am a Muslim Arab, in my actions oriented very to the left, in my convictions.
More Ahmed Ben Bella Quotes
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I can say now: all the combatants who participated in the fight for freedom in South America came to Algeria; it’s from there that all those who fought left.
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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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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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We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France
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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 spent 24 and a half years in prison
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With my government, we engaged in bringing our help to fights for national freedom.
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I was one of the organisers of its struggle for liberation. I likewise actively participated in all the struggles for liberation.
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In two years, there were 22 military coups d’etat, essentially in Africa and the third world. The coup d’etat of Algiers, in 1965, is what opened the path.
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I’m 90 years old now, and my motivation hasn’t changed; it’s the same fervour that drives me.
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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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Peace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers.
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My life has been a bit special, this is true. I participated in the liberation of my country.
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I am not a Marxist, but I place myself resolutely at the left.
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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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