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.
AHMED BEN BELLAAt 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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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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Yes, I am Algerian of Moroccan origin through my parents, but all my life is Algeria. I was born there.
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Those who are leftists, once in power, are not different from other parties.
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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 was one of the organisers of its struggle for liberation. I likewise actively participated in all the struggles for liberation.
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Algeria is not breaking up.
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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 spent 24 and a half years in prison
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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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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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This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.
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I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.
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Peace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers.
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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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