A younger woman, who unloaded heavy firewood from her back, unties the lines that bound me, and lifts me out of the cradle.
I think of her nostalgic smile.
The place, where I must return to someday, is my eternal little stone house lit by the autumn sun the Kabylie Plateau.
Greetings from Japan.
]]>The Arabs have never set foot in Kabylia. It was only with the French colonization that the teaching of Arabic began. What an imagination you have. If the Arabs had invented the numbers, they would be the first to use them. However, the Bedouins today use Hindu numbers.
You are the cuckoo bird. It is in the nests of others that you make your existence. The whole world knows that Bedouins are the source of nothing at all. It is enough to see the desert of Hijaz to understand that you are simply windy.
In addition, do you have any sources of time which mention the arrival of the Bedouins in North Africa?
Islam a fantastic and intelligent religion ??
Islam is only a regressive, racist, sexist, totalitarian obscurantism and it is indeed the last thing in which a human being endowed with a minimum of neurons can be interested.
“KABYLIE IS OCCUPIED MILITARILY, IT IS COLONIZED
– We are conducting this interview at a pivotal moment for the Movement for Self-Determination of Kabylia (MAK), and for you in particular, since you are the subject of an arrest warrant from the Algerian judiciary for the murder of the activist Djamel Bensmail on August 11, 2021 in the municipality of Larbâa Nath Irathen, in Kabylia. On May 18, 2021, the Algerian state had also classified the MAK as a terrorist organization. What is your personal feeling about all these developments?
The classification of the MAK as a terrorist organization has no legal basis, nor any material evidence. We are dealing with a power whose software has never been updated since Boumediene. It manages the country like a barracks. It is totally disconnected from the reality of the country and the evolution of its international environment.
On the accusations which are unjustly brought against us, we are determined not to yield anything of our innocence and repeat as much as possible that they are only lies intended for an internal consumption.
In fact, since last May, three generals recently released from prison, and that we will attack by name at the ICC, have been charged with “demonizing” the MAK, Kabylia and my modest person. We are therefore prepared for this and such false and fanciful accusations cannot reach us. Even better! The more the military are relentless on us, the more they victimize us with the Kabyle people whose members, still hesitant, are rallying en masse to our cause.
Kabylia and all Algerians, even slightly aware of the nature of the regime they are undergoing, know that justice is transformed into a central propaganda agency that feeds daily intoxications to the hundreds of media in the hands of the Algerian Services and to the electronic flies in charge of polluting the social networks. Facebook has just deleted no less than 800 pages identified as those of Algerian propaganda agents.
As for the international arrest warrant against me, no credible police in the world will take it seriously.
– Has the MAK ever been instrumentalized, since its creation in 2001, by Morocco, as the Algerian authorities claim?
Never in my life. The MAK has sovereign authorities and does not intend to have its orientations dictated by any power. If we were corruptible, the Algerian colonialist regime would have been the first to bribe or manipulate us long ago. Enough nonsense.
In reality, accusing someone of anything is an old tactical recipe taken from the adage that “the best defense is an attack”. This will not keep us on the defensive.
– For now, Morocco has been content with simple statements of support at the United Nations (UN). Would you still like to have a diplomatic representation in Rabat?
I have already formulated in some columns of Moroccan media our wish and our willingness to open a Kabyle diplomatic representation in the Cherifian Kingdom. We hope that we are not far from it in terms of agenda.
– In Morocco, some people are reluctant to support you because it could mean opening a new breach in the Sahara region, even though it is since at least the Moroccan Almoravid dynasty and it is only during the French colonial period that Kabylia has been attached to Algeria. What are your arguments today to convince the Moroccan people of the rightness of your cause?
Algeria is a French creation ex nihilo. Kabylia was already a confederation attested as early as the 4th Century AD, that of the Quinquegentians detailed by the Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus. In the Middle Ages, it was a Kingdom that signed treaties with its Mediterranean neighbors, notably the Vatican, Spain and Morocco. The Turkish Regency was almost swallowed up by the King of Koukou, Ahmed OulKadi, who laid siege to Algiers for months. There are still vestiges of this siege on the heights of Algiers, in Bouzaréah in particular, with a fortress that is still called Bordj Koukou.
Kabylia has always been independent since the beginning of time. It is the French colonization which, after the battle of Icherridène, above Larbaa Nath Irathen, in June 1857, attached Kabylia by force to French Algeria. However, no Kabyle chief or dignitary had had the disgrace of signing a treaty of surrender as did Emir Abdelkader with the Treaty of Tafna. The Kabyle chiefs had made it a point of honor not to sign any capitulation. To this day, this annexation of Kabylia to Algeria is legally and historically illegal.
– In attacks whose anti-Semitic character is obviously undeniable, the official Algerian media reproach you for the support displayed in May 2016 towards you by the French Jewish intellectual Bernard-Henri Lévy to accuse you of serving a great Zionist plot against Algeria. Any comment on this?
Anti-Semitism is an ideological food served daily to Algerians by the school and the media close to the power. Kabylia does not harbor any hatred against peoples, races or religions. Many Kabyle Jewish families had converted to Islam in order not to be separated from their own following the Crémieux Decree (1870). But we knew very quickly, after the independence of Algeria, that we have no reason to hate Israel. We have a duty to denounce injustices or violations of human rights throughout the world, but we are not neo-Nazis professing the dismantling of the State of Israel. The Israeli people are a brotherly people, just like all the peoples of the planet Earth.
– What is your real political weight in Kabylia today?
We cannot evaluate the political strength of a peaceful national liberation movement like us, in times of state terrorism. Kabylia is militarily occupied, it is colonized. Acts of a nameless war have just been committed against us. Algerian colonialism has just burned alive our children, burned three quarters of the territory of Kabylia, 80% of our villages. It is a devastation to which it has just subjected the Kabyle people. This is similar to the operation Anfal 1 and 2 of Saddam Hussein against the Kurds.
The terror that the Algerian colonial regime has been trying to install in Kabylia for the last few months, resembles that of General Massu and the parachutists of the Battle of Algiers. Torture with the taser, like yesterday with the gene, is practiced these days in the places of interrogation of the militants and the arrested Kabyle citizens. This situation does not allow the Kabyle people to go out in the street and be massacred by the army and the police. As a man of peace and a humanist, I do not have the heart to assume a bloodbath.
– When we interviewed you five years ago, you told us that you were convinced that Kabylia would be independent in your lifetime. Would you still say the same thing today?
This day is not as far as when I told you. This aside, one is never safe from an accident as an individual. Even if this is not the case, I will leave serene and proud, happy to have, like Moses, guided my people towards their freedom.
SIWEL 031930 SEPT 21
]]>Suleiman Buhafs arrived in Tunisia, where the UN High Commissioner for Refugees granted him refugee status in September 2020. The international protection accorded to Suleiman Buhafs requires the Tunisian authorities, signatories to the 1951 Geneva Convention and its 1967 Protocol and the 1984 Convention against Torture, not to refoul him.
The signatory organisations:
Express their indignation at the dangerous precedent caused by the Tunisian State of handing over a refugee benefiting from international protection to the authorities of his country, who are pursuing him on the basis of his political positions and demand that they provide clarification to public opinion.
Call on the Tunisian State to respect its international commitments in this delicate circumstance and to ensure the protection of human rights and the rights of refugees.
Consider that the establishment of friendly relations with a friendly country should not be to the detriment of the respect of international obligations that protect refugees and asylum seekers and the respect of the principle of non-refoulment and non-extradition.
Signatory organisations
Tunisian League for the Defence of Human Rights
Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights
National Union of Tunisian Journalists
Tunisian Association for the Defence of Individual Freedoms
Binaa Association for Media and Development
Baity Association
Tunisian Association of Democratic Women (ATFD)
Association of Tunisian Women for Development Research (AFTURD)
Association Adrar pour la Culture Amazihe at Douirat
Organisation 10-23 for the Support of the Democratic Transition Process
The Association of Citizenship, Development, Cultures and Migrations
Association of Arts and Cultures of the Two Rives
Association of Civil Solidarity
Forum for Youth Empowerment in Tunisia
Support Centre for Democratic Transition and Human Rights
The Committee for the respect of freedoms and human rights in Tunisia
Wachm Association
Alkarama Association (Voice of the Victims)
Tunisian Network for Transitional Justice
Tkalim Association for Freedom of Expression
Tunisian Association for Positive Prevention
Association Vigilance pour la démocratie et l’État civil
Al Bawsala Association
Tunisian Federation for Citizenship between the two shores
Tunisian Coalition for the Abolition of the Death Penalty
Tunisian Organisation Against Torture
Union of unemployed graduates
Association for the promotion of the right to be different
Article 19
Tunis Centre for Press Freedom
Tunisian Association for Cultural Movement
Tamakit Association for Amazigh rights, freedoms and culture
Tunisian Association for the Defence of University Values
Intersection for Rights and Freedoms
Vigilance Committee for Democracy in Tunisia, Belgium
Union of Tunisians for Citizenship
Tunisian Association for the Support of Minorities
Avocats Sans Frontières
Aswat Nisaa
Minority Rights Group International
Association Volontaires
Damj the Tunisian Association for Justice and Equality
Association of Tunisians in France
Suleiman Bouhafs is an Algerian political refugee who belongs to the indigenous Amazigh population (Kabyles). He is also Christian, a religious minority in the country.
Tunisian Association for the Defence of University Values
Intersection for Rights and Freedoms
Vigilance Committee for Democracy in Tunisia, Belgium
Union of Tunisians for Citizenship
Tunisian Association for the Support of Minorities
Avocats Sans Frontières
Aswat Nisaa
Minority Rights Group International
Association Volontaires
Damj the Tunisian Association for Justice and Equality
Association of Tunisians in France
Suleiman Bouhafs is an Algerian political refugee who belongs to the indigenous Amazigh population (Kabyles). He is also Christian, a religious minority in the country.
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]]>Islam was originally a Unitarian Christianity opposed to the Trinitarian. It was when the Goths got involved in theology that this sect degenerated with its recommendations of violence, fighting and dying to be rewarded for eternity. Jihad is taken directly from Norse belief.
There is no trace of Islam, even of life, in Hijaz. The Hijaz was a desert of which we have no epistographic or archaeological trace of this place dating from the time of the supposed prophet … which nobody testifies to have seen. Everything in Islam is an unparalleled deception in the history of mankind …
And as for an intelligent religion, you have to review your reading … Allah insults a man with the term son of a bitch … that says everything about your religion
Algeria prepares a genocide against the Kabyle people.
On its official website, the Algerian Ministry of Defence has just made serious, nonetheless ludicrous, accusations against the Movement for the auto-determination of Kabylia (MAK). Without any proof, it accuses the MAK of preparing terrorist attacks. Based on the alleged confession of a certain H. Noureddine who is said to be our activist, it asserts the improbable. In any case, he could not be an activist of the MAK.
We challenge the Algerian Defence Ministry to give the name of this alleged “MAK activist”, his date and place of birth so that the citizens of Kabylia can verify for themselves the seriousness of the accusations against the MAK but also the enormity of the lie.
This gross lie does not fool anyone, neither in Kabylia, nor across the world. Fabricating indictments against pro-independence activists is a well-worn colonial specialty. France, in its time, had used and abused it after the peaceful demonstrations of May 8, 1945. Recently, the Algerian authorities have already tried the same stratagem with the Walid Nekkiche affair, without success.
Let us not forget the Cap Sigli affair (1978), and the incredible scenario designed in the offices of the Algerian Military Security (SM) to break the push for democracy and freedom coming from Kabylia, and which risked awakening Algeria.
After the grandiose demonstrations of April 20 in the three major cities of Kabylia, through which, Kabylia, like a single man asserted its right to self-determination, the military junta panicked and resorted to the terrorism card, which the MAK has always condemned with all its might, well before everyone else.
The press release which has just been published aims:
1) To scare and push the militants to go underground, but we will not give in to fear and repression.
2) After going underground, the government will stage attacks that it will attribute to the MAK in such a way as to set world opinion against it and accuse it of being a “terrorist” organization as it tried to do with its trolls on the web, its agents, and its relays.
The MAK and Anavad (Kabyle Provisional Government in Exile) are taking the international community for witness. They have never considered terrorism and will never be forced to do so. The MAK is in essence a peaceful movement and will always be.
Any act of violence, which may be committed in the days to come, will be CLEARLY identified as the work of the Algerian services. We will never be associated with it, directly or indirectly.
We are a nonviolent political movement whose policies are based on the right of peoples to self-determination.
Just because the Minister of Defence is threatening us does not mean that we will go along with its plans. We will not take the bush. We will use international law and reason to face the ignominy to which the Algerian authorities would like to assign us. Kabylia will be independent whatever the ferocity of the anti-Kabyle repression that will fall on us.
These threats do not scare us because we have nothing to be ashamed of and we want the whole world to know it!
These sordid and unfounded accusations seek only to give the operation code named “Zero Kabyle”, adopted at the end of August 2019, the bases of its legitimation to move towards genocide.
In the name of human conscience, I call on all the independent media, the democratic nations, the activists on social media to denounce this plot against innocent people.
I call on all international bodies to intervene as soon as possible before the irreparable is committed.
I assume, in front of the Kabyle people and the whole world, my pacifism and my unconditional condemnation of the use of violence.
I call on the UN Security Council to challenge the Algerian authorities on this genocidal plan, in accordance with the letter I sent them in September 2019.
We warn the Algerian regime against violence and its abuses. The International Criminal Court is already warned to closely follow the evolution of the human rights situation in Kabylia.
Long live free independent Kabylia
Down with the denial to the Kabyle people their right to self-determination.
Exile, the 25/04/2021
Mr. Ferhat Mehenni, President of MAK and Anavad
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