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 BELLAYes, I am Algerian of Moroccan origin through my parents, but all my life is Algeria. I was born there.
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The French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years.
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Algeria is not breaking up.
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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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Yes, I am Algerian of Moroccan origin through my parents, but all my life is Algeria. I was born there.
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We trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks.
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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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These are the multinationals, like General Motors and Nestle; these are the big industrial groups that weigh, on the monetary scale, much more than big countries like Egypt.
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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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My life has been a bit special, this is true. I participated in the liberation of my country.
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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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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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I spent 24 and a half years in prison
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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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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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