I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.
AHMED BEN BELLAWith my government, we engaged in bringing our help to fights for national freedom.
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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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I’m 90 years old now, and my motivation hasn’t changed; it’s the same fervour that drives me.
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I was one of the organisers of its struggle for liberation. I likewise actively participated in all the struggles for liberation.
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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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Those who are leftists, once in power, are not different from other parties.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France
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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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