The French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years.
AHMED BEN BELLAWhen I was engaged in the struggle for my country, I was very young. My horizons were open.
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I spent 24 and a half years in prison
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Algeria is not breaking up.
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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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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 accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.
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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 am not a Marxist, but I place myself resolutely at the left.
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I am a Muslim Arab, in my actions oriented very to the left, in my convictions.
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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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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 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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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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Peace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers.
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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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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.
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