I am a Muslim Arab, in my actions oriented very to the left, in my convictions.
AHMED BEN BELLAWhen I was engaged in the struggle for my country, I was very young. My horizons were open.
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The French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years.
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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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With my government, we engaged in bringing our help to fights for national freedom.
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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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This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies.
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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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This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.
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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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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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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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When I was engaged in the struggle for my country, I was very young. My horizons were open.
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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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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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