I spent 24 and a half years in prison
AHMED BEN BELLAI’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 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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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 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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Those who are leftists, once in power, are not different from other parties.
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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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I am a Muslim Arab, in my actions oriented very to the left, in my convictions.
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Peace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers.
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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 am not a Marxist, but I place myself resolutely at the left.
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I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.
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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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My life has been a bit special, this is true. I participated in the liberation of my country.
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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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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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