My life has been a bit special, this is true. I participated in the liberation of my country.
AHMED BEN BELLAThis phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.
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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’m 90 years old now, and my motivation hasn’t changed; it’s the same fervour that drives me.
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I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.
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Everywhere that the struggle for national freedom has triumphed, once the authorities agreed, there were military coups d’etat that overthrew their leaders. That is the result time and time again.
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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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I spent 24 and a half years in prison
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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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I 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’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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Peace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers.
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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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Algeria was therefore only the beginning of something that was in development: this is why I say that it’s the global capitalist system that finally reacted against us.
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The French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years.
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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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