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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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With my government, we engaged in bringing our help to fights for national freedom. 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 am a Muslim Arab, in my actions oriented very to the left, in my convictions.

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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. This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.

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From their point of view, I had gone too far. I had to disappear. That is to say, if the Algerian army had not overthrown me, others would have done so.

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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. We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France.

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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. We trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks.

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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 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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Yes, I am Algerian of Moroccan origin through my parents, but all my life is Algeria. I was born there.

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I'm optimistic because I'm pragmatic Neither of the two sides, the military government nor the Islamic front, is capable of winning. If they continue to fight, they will both bleed to death.

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Immediately after independence, I was associated with all those who, in the world, themselves undertook the struggle to liberate their own country.

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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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My life has been a bit special, this is true. I participated in the liberation of my country. I was one of the organisers of its struggle for liberation. I likewise actively participated in all the struggles for liberation.

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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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Peace does not include a vendetta there will be neither winners nor losers.

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No, I live in Algeria, but I often come to Switzerland. I had lived here for ten years, after my quarrels with the Algerian military powers.

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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. 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 French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time 132 years.

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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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Algeria is not breaking up.

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Algeria was therefore only the beginning of something that was in development this is why I say that it's the global capitalist system that finally reacted against us.

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Che came in 1963, shortly after I had come to power.

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For other movements, which were not involved in a military fight and who needed only political support, such as Mali, we helped in other ways.

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I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.

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