We trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks.
AHMED BEN BELLAI was one of the organisers of its struggle for liberation. I likewise actively participated in all the struggles for liberation.
More Ahmed Ben Bella Quotes
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I spent 24 and a half years in prison
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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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The French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years.
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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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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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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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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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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 am not a Marxist, but I place myself resolutely at the left.
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This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.
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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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With my government, we engaged in bringing our help to fights for national freedom.
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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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Those who are leftists, once in power, are not different from other parties.
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Peace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers.
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