Colonialism is known in its primitive form, that is to say, by the permanent settling of repressive foreign powers, with an army, services, policies.
AHMED BEN BELLAI was one of the organisers of its struggle for liberation. I likewise actively participated in all the struggles for liberation.
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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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Yes, I am Algerian of Moroccan origin through my parents, but all my life is Algeria. I was born there.
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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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We trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks.
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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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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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We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France
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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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Algeria is not breaking up.
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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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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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I spent 24 and a half years in prison
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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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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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