We trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks.
AHMED BEN BELLAWe trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks.
AHMED BEN BELLAI’m 90 years old now, and my motivation hasn’t changed; it’s the same fervour that drives me.
AHMED BEN BELLAWith my government, we engaged in bringing our help to fights for national freedom.
AHMED BEN BELLAWhen I was engaged in the struggle for my country, I was very young. My horizons were open.
AHMED BEN BELLAThe 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.
AHMED BEN BELLALet us all agree to die a little, or even completely so that African unity may not be a vain word
AHMED BEN BELLAAlgeria is not breaking up.
AHMED BEN BELLAThese 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.
AHMED BEN BELLAI 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.
AHMED BEN BELLAThis phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.
AHMED BEN BELLAThose who are leftists, once in power, are not different from other parties.
AHMED BEN BELLAThe French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years.
AHMED BEN BELLAIt is obvious that taking the country from a state of war to being a lawful state won’t be easy.
AHMED BEN BELLAEverywhere 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 BELLAColonialism is an idea born in the West that drives Western countries – like France, Italy, Belgium, Great Britain – to occupy countries outside of Europe.
AHMED BEN BELLAI accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.
AHMED BEN BELLA