When I was engaged in the struggle for my country, I was very young. My horizons were open.

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.

Algeria is not breaking up.

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.

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.

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

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