Algeria is not breaking up.
AHMED BEN BELLAColonialism 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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This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.
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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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I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.
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I am a Muslim Arab, in my actions oriented very to the left, in my convictions.
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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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With my government, we engaged in bringing our help to fights for national freedom.
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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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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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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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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’m 90 years old now, and my motivation hasn’t changed; it’s the same fervour that drives me.
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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 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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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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