I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.
AHMED BEN BELLAI 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 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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We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France
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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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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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I am a Muslim Arab, in my actions oriented very to the left, in my convictions.
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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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Those who are leftists, once in power, are not different from other parties.
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This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.
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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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Peace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers.
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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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The French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years.
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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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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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