The French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years.
AHMED BEN BELLAWith my government, we engaged in bringing our help to fights for national freedom.
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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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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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I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.
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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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With my government, we engaged in bringing our help to fights for national freedom.
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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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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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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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When I was engaged in the struggle for my country, I was very young. My horizons were open.
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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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Yes, I am Algerian of Moroccan origin through my parents, but all my life is Algeria. I was born there.
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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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This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.
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