It is obvious that taking the country from a state of war to being a lawful state won't be easy.

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

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

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. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies.

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

It is obvious that taking the country from a state of war to being a lawful state won't be easy.

I spent 24 and a half years in prison