Those who are leftists, once in power, are not different from other parties.
AHMED BEN BELLAI am a Muslim Arab, in my actions oriented very to the left, in my convictions.
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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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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 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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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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This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.
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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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I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.
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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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The French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years.
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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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My life has been a bit special, this is true. I participated in the liberation of my country.
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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 spent 24 and a half years in prison
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