With my government, we engaged in bringing our help to fights for national freedom.
AHMED BEN BELLAIn 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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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 am a Muslim Arab, in my actions oriented very to the left, in my convictions.
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Those who are leftists, once in power, are not different from other parties.
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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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Algeria is not breaking up.
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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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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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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’m 90 years old now, and my motivation hasn’t changed; it’s the same fervour that drives me.
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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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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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We trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks.
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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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