Former Algerian revolutionary leader Ahmed Ben Bella was pleading for a peaceful solution of the conflict between the military dictatorship in Algeria and the FIS (Islamic Salvation Front) during a meeting organized by progressive Italian members of the Catholic church in Rome. 
The meeting was attended by members of secular democratic parties, including the Algerian left and by delegates of the  outlawed  conservative FIS - 
ALL OF THEM IN OPPOSITION TO THE PRESENT DICTATORSHIP.
The solution, Ben Bella declared, were democratic elections respected by all political forces in Algeria.
As long as they don't support fascist or other inhumane choices, a population (or the majority of a population) has the democratic right to err, and to "make its own mistakes"...