say that story because benjamin bro is
a historian of colonial era algeria and he's with us by skype from austin texas in
the united states but remember i mean one of the issues right now facing the
demonstrators who want
a complete political change in algeria is the fact that among their number very few
will have experience politically or even in government because the figure has ruled
with his altar off for so long. yes i did this is one of the problems of the face
and the results of the sort of suffocation of civil society in
a political sense over the last several decades and i think one of the things is
you know that term to remember in this and what the demonstrators have been
repeating is that the people in algeria are sovereign this is guaranteed by the
existing constitution or i can't imagine
a new constitution that doesn't recognize that right and beginning on the twenty
second second of february six six weeks ago or overstress or six weeks ago this
people found his...