Colonialism is an idea born... by Ahmed Ben Bella, an Algerian Politician

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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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Ahmed Ben Bella

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Name: Ahmed Ben Bella

Nationality: Algerian

Date of Birth: Dec 25, 1918

Profession: Politician

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

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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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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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