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.
AHMED BEN BELLAI’m optimistic because I’m pragmatic: Neither of the two sides, the military government nor the Islamic front, is capable of winning. If they continue to fight, they will both bleed to death.
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I’m optimistic because I’m pragmatic: Neither of the two sides, the military government nor the Islamic front, is capable of winning. If they continue to fight, they will both bleed to death.
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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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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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With my government, we engaged in bringing our help to fights for national freedom.
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I spent 24 and a half years in prison
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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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This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies.
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Peace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers.
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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 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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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 were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France
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We trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks.
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Those who are leftists, once in power, are not different from other parties.
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