My life has been a bit special, this is true. I participated in the liberation of my country.
AHMED BEN BELLALet us all agree to die a little, or even completely so that African unity may not be a vain word
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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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Yes, I am Algerian of Moroccan origin through my parents, but all my life is Algeria. I was born there.
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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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The French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years.
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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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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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We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France
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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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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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Peace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers.
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I spent 24 and a half years in prison
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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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We trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks.
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Algeria is not breaking up.
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