I was one of the organisers of its struggle for liberation. I likewise actively participated in all the struggles for liberation.
AHMED BEN BELLAI 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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We 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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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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Algeria is not breaking up.
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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’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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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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When I was engaged in the struggle for my country, I was very young. My horizons were open.
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We trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks.
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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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Colonialism is known in its primitive form, that is to say, by the permanent settling of repressive foreign powers, with an army, services, policies.
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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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