When I was engaged in the struggle for my country, I was very young. My horizons were open.
AHMED BEN BELLAColonialism 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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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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We trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks.
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Yes, my life is a life of combat; I can say that this has never stopped for a single instant. It is a combat that started for me at the age of 16.
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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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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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Peace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers.
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Let us all agree to die a little, or even completely so that African unity may not be a vain word
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Those who are leftists, once in power, are not different from other parties.
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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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It is obvious that taking the country from a state of war to being a lawful state won’t be easy.
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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 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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Yes, I am Algerian of Moroccan origin through my parents, but all my life is Algeria. I was born there.
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Algeria is not breaking up.
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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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