SOLIDARITY WITH KABYLIA

[fond or]STATEMENT - PÉTITION[/fond or]

For decades, the Algerian regime has been tormenting Kabylia in order to bring it to its knees, using the most brutal repression. In 2001, it used weapons of war against Kabyle civilians, killing 130 people and injuring thousands, including several hundreds who are disabled for life.

Since the summer of 2021, the regime has been using a different method, one of the most treacherous. It uses judicial punishment and started to arrest hundreds of of citizens in the towns and villages of Kabylia. The regime’s well-honed judicial machinery handed them heavy jail sentences. These citizens have been the victims of humiliation, arbitrariness , and mistreatment. Some have even been victim of torture and rape. The Algerian regime targets all of those who have Kabylia in their heart and act in its favor. Artists and intellectuals have not been spared and are subjected to the arbitrariness of this regime. Kabylia is this facing a state terrorism aiming at it annihilation.

We, the signatories of this declaration, denounce the arbitrary policies of the Algerian State and its relentless attacks on Kabylia where it commits blatant injustice. We express our complete solidarity with the Kabyle Amazigh activists and their families who are victims of the arbitrariness of the Algerian state.

We urge Kabylia and its people to persist in their resistance against the regime’s Arab-Islamist ideology with its dogged determination to eradicate the Amazigh identity. Kabylia plays an important role in the fight for Amazigh identity ; it has always served as the example for all Imazighen across Tamazgha. They need it to remain standing and proud.

The most basic human rights are denied in Kabylia. The complete and echoless silence surrounding the ongoing repression in this region is distressing. The international community, and France in particular, have held an attitudes that is tantamount to a collusion with the Algerian regime. Human rights organizations have had very little interest on the ongoing distressful developments in this corner of the world.

These developments call for a large mobilization and the consolidation of all efforts to put an end to these repressive policies which aim to silence the Amazigh people, and complete their forced assimilation.

To counter this unbearable situation that Kabylia is experiencing, we pledge our support to all the initiatives and mobilizations of the Imazighen across all of Tamazgha (North Africa) and the diaspora in order to put and end to the daily arbitrariness that the Amazigh activists in Kabylia are suffering at the hands of the Algerian state. All the Kabyle citizens who are languishing in Algerian prisons must be released.

27th February 2023

[fond jaune]First signatories :[/fond jaune]

Salem Chaker, Professeur émérite des Universités (berbère), France
Irma Mora-Aguiar, Professeur et chercheuse, Îles Canaries
Madghis Bouzakhar, Amazigh Researcher and Political Activist, At Maan (Yefren - Infusen)
Mustapha El Adak, Chercheur universitaire, Oujda
Seham Taleb, Avocate, Tripoli
Samir Nefzi, Chercheur en droit pénal, Président du Mouvement Akal-Tunisie, Japon
Ali Harcherras, Enseignant à la retraite, Goulmima (Sud-est du Maroc)
Abdallah Bounfour, Professeur émérite des Universités, France
Fathi Abouzakhar, Academic staff member at Zawia University, Tripoli
Hélène CLAUDOT-HAWAD, Anthropologue, Directrice de recherche honoraire au CNRS, Aix-en-Provence
HAWAD, Ecrivain et peintre amazigh.
Carles Castellanos Llorenç, Ingénieur et linguiste - Professeur émérite UAB, Catalogne
Kamal Naït Zerad, Professeur des Universités (berbère), Paris
Omar Derouich, Enseignant et poète amazigh, Tazrout n Ayt Wasif (Imgunen)
H’mmu Kemous, Artiste, Belgique
Mazigh Buzakhar, Engineer, Infusen region
Pablo Deluca, Ecrivain-chercheur, Tenerife (Îles Canaries)
Hisham Ahmadi, Avocat, Jadu (Adrar n Infusen)
Ali Khadaoui, Poète, Khénifra
Fathi n Khelifa, Président du parti LIBU, Zouara (At-Willul)
Salah Dabouz, Avocat et défenseur des droits humains, Bruxelles – Belgique
Driss Rabih, Docteur et chercheur, Casablanca
Shokri Agmar, Avocat, Tripoli
Hsen Larbi, Ingénieur, Philadelphie (USA)
Nasser Abouzakhar, Company Director, United Kingdom
Aksil Azergui, Consultant, Lille
Gérard Lamari, détenu de 80 et professeur de mathématiques, Toulouse (Occitanie)
Mhend Abttoy, Artiste, Roterdam (Pays-Bas)
Mestafa G’idir, Neuropsychologue, Aix-en-Provence (Occitanie) ;
Chahine Berrich, Réalisateur, Tunisie
Mbark Taous, Enseignant, Goulmima (Maroc)
Ahmed Aribe Dougha, Vice-président du parti LIBU, Jadu (Adrar n Infusen)
Masin Ferkal, Enseignant, militant berbériste, Paris
Mustapha Berhouchi, Enseignant, Meknès (Maroc)
Hamid Lihi, Enseignant, Ouarzazat (Maroc)
Aicha Ait Berri, Retraitée (ex inspectrice de l’enseignement), Beni Mellal, Maroc
Ahmed Ou-Hssata, Retraité, (ex administrateur économe), Béni-Mellal, Maroc.
Said Ait Berri, Chef de service (agriculture), Meknès, Maroc
Jamila Lahyani, Fonctionnaire , Meknès, Maroc.
Carles Múrcia, Professeur universitaire, Barcelone (Catalogne)
Anna Maria Di Tolla, Professeure de l’Université de Naples L’Orientale - Italie
Samir Oukaci, Diplômé de l’inalco, chercheur en Histoire et anthropologie du monde berbère, France
Slimane KADI, Entrepreneur WEB, Paris
SID LAKHDAR Boumédiene, Enseignant, France
Azal Belkadi, Artiste amazigh de Kabylie, France
Juan Amílcar Fariña Acosta, Retraité, Archipel des Canaries
Djamal YAHIAOUI, Formateur/Enseignant, Trélazé (Maine et Loire)
Farida Sam, Universitaire et employée à la sensibilisation environnementale, Québec
Odette Rolland, Retraitée 75 ans, Saint Pierre de Trivisy (Tarn)
Belaid AIT MOHAND, Retraité, France
Anumid Smoune, Enseignant, Paris
Alexia Smoune de Bournet, Juriste, Paris
Yassin Aït Oumghar, Etudiant , Azilal (Maroc)
Brahim Akdime, Retraité, Casablanca
Irij Maouche, Cheminot en retraite, Paris
Farid Belkadi, Médecin, USA