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.
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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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 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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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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Peace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers.
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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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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’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 a Muslim Arab, in my actions oriented very to the left, in my convictions.
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The French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years.
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This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.
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With my government, we engaged in bringing our help to fights for national freedom.
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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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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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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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