This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.
AHMED BEN BELLAWe were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France
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I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.
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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 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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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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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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We trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks.
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With my government, we engaged in bringing our help to fights for national freedom.
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I am a Muslim Arab, in my actions oriented very to the left, in my convictions.
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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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I am not a Marxist, but I place myself resolutely at the left.
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Algeria is not breaking up.
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The French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years.
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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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Yes, I am Algerian of Moroccan origin through my parents, but all my life is Algeria. I was born there.
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