Algeria, "the second part" of Mandela :

By Melanie Matarese December 6, 2013 1:26 p.m.

"This is Algeria, which has made me a man" Thus Spake Mandela in 1990 during his first visit after his release, in his adopted country. After his death, President Bouteflika has decided to masting flags for eight days. Back on a historical relationship.

Nelson Mandela with (on his left) his instructor the future General Chief of Staff of the Lamari Algerian army.

 "The Algerian people, who boasts of having always been alongside Madiba and the people of South Africa , is associated with grief and never forget that Mandela , Algeria is his " second home " as he loved to repeat , "said Abdelaziz Bouteflika today in a message to President Jacob Zuma following the disappearance of Nelson Mandela, yesterday at the age of 95 years . If everyone knows the hero of the struggle against apartheid, his history with Algeria remains little known .Yet this is where Madiba , near Ahmed Ben Bella , received his first military training in the early 60s with the representative of the Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic , Dr. Shawki Mostefai . " He told us that this kind of war was not the goal of winning a military victory but to release the economic and political forces that would drop the enemy , says Mandela. Dr. Mustafa advised us not to neglect the political side of the war while organizing the military. " During his visit to Oujda , where he went to a combat unit of the National Liberation Army , he said: " At one point, I took a pair of binoculars and I saw French soldiers on the other side of the border. I admit that I expected to see consistent forces south African defense. "

 Between 1963 and 1990, Algeria 's military training to members of the ANC while leading a diplomatic revolt against apartheid to the Organization of African Union and the UN . "It was a guerrilla army composed of fighters who have earned their stripes in the heat of battle and were more interested in the war and tactics as uniforms and parades ", said Mandela. " In his eyes, we were able to wage war against a powerful colonial army , which required us similar to the apartheid colonial domination ," recalls Noureddine Djoudi , former Algerian ambassador to South Africa and interpreter of Nelson Mandela in Algeria during his visit in 1960.To give more echo the struggle against apartheid from Algeria, the ANC has even opened an office information. At the time, all the ANC leaders attended Algiers, qualified at that time , by the father of the Independence of Guinea Bissau , Amilcar Cabral "Mecca of revolutionaries."

"Algeria was for him a model and support, also remembers former Prime Minister Redha Malek. As South Africa has always been a hub of Algerian foreign policy as evidenced by the exclusion of South Africa by the General Assembly of the United Nations proposed and obtained by Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1974. This diplomatic action demonstrates the commitment of Algeria for Mandela and his anti-apartheid actions . "A former diplomat ignites: "At the time, what country would dare do this Certainly not the United States who continue to classify Mandela as a terrorist until 2008 Our support for his cause was the same level as our? support for Palestine, massive and selfless. " 

First visit of Nelson Mandela , photography alongside Lamari Cherif Belkacem and Noureddine Djoudi .

 After his release in May 1990 , Nelson Mandela returns to his adopted country and said: "This is Algeria, which has made me a man." Close to the Presidency emphasizes : "We have always shared with him the very definition of terrorism: the armed fight against illegal occupation activists can not be considered terrorist Mandela against the apartheid had the same status as Larbi . Ben M'hidi against the French army, they were not considered as freedom fighters but as terrorists ! "Abderrezak Makri , leader of the MSP ( Islamists) , was a policy to acknowledge " a great man, an extraordinary symbol " first , stating : "He did not use the historical legitimacy to oppress his people to life He . rather gathered his people to build a great state and let others continue the process. He did not have to die the President. "


    # # Mandela Aussaresses dead , both in 95 years ... The first stay in the light , the other will join soon the darkness ....
    - Faten Hayed ® (@ Faten_Hayed ) December 6, 2013Adlène Meddi , editor of El Watan Weekend today a documentary on the relationship between Mandela and Algeria, summarizes : "" This is a weird week for Algeria this week that has seen three symbolic disappearance. General Aussaresses , which woke the wounds of the war in Algeria and the Christ image Larbi Ben M'hidi Ahmad Fouad Najm , an Egyptian poet, and transgenerational absolute figure of the Arab revolutionary left anti- dictatorship and especially Mandela, that embodies the struggle against the occupation, one of the foundations of the Algerian ideology. "