When I was engaged in the struggle for my country, I was very young. My horizons were open.
AHMED BEN BELLA
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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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 spent 24 and a half years in prison
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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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Colonialism 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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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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Those who are leftists, once in power, are not different from other parties.
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I am not a Marxist, but I place myself resolutely at the left.
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I can say now: all the combatants who participated in the fight for freedom in South America came to Algeria; it’s from there that all those who fought left.
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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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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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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 accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.
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