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Today’s conditions in which the Moroccan Amazigh people live remind us of the Kabylia in 1980s. Indeed, in that black period of the Algerian history, Kabylian people underwent all sorts of aggression, manipulation, and humiliation.

The university Ibn Zohr in Agadir (south of Morocco) was the theatre of violent aggressions against the militants of the Amazigh Cultural Movement (ACM), by the supposedly Sahraoui students. After these repetitive aggressions that "hold sway in the Moroccan universities and that target the Amazigh students, who militate in or sympathise with the Amazigh Cultural Movement ", a group of militants, through a declaration, launches the initiative of the creation of a support Committee for the prisoners of the Amazigh Cultural Movement, as well as of solidarity with all the victims of these "criminal aggressions" and with the prisoners pursued for " arbitrary charges " that aim to silence all free voices, to subdue the Amazigh militants and stifle the legitimate struggles of the Moroccan student, the declaration said. These students "underwent all forms of violence, legal proceedings, arbitrary condemnations and imprisonments", the declaration added. On the other hand, the support committee appeals "all the Amazigh militants, male and female" to react in favour of this cause, in order “to set free the militants kept in prison by the Moroccan authorities". Their action can be carried out by an adhesion to this committee where everybody can offer a financial or moral support to it in the coming days. The coordinators of the committee underlined that "the first assembly of the creation of this committee was held on Sundays May 20th, 2007 at 15:00 in the local of the Association Azemz Bumal n Dades, Warzazat (Morocco)". Besides, they explained that after having reviewed the details of the project and discussed the measures to take, the assembly elected the present voluntary members and entrusted others who confirmed their adhesion by e-mail or by telephone, as representatives for the committee in their regions. The committee was indeed very harsh towards the Moroccan political power; about this, it declared that "the makhzenian system intervened to swipe and stop massively the militants and the sympathisers of the Amazigh Cultural Movement. The makhzen corroborates, once more, its objective and absolute alliance with criminal bands on the basis of Arabist ethnocentrism ", the committee said. And it added that "this happened after the makhzen had mastered and integrated some supposed Amazigh elements in its institutional cages", referring to the Royal Institute of Berber Language and Culture.

This systematic oppression is, according to the committee, "nothing but a repulsive pre-established plan that aims at bullying and limiting the militant, active and autonomous impetus of the Amazigh Cultural Movement, by attacking its militants. Successive aggressions that began in Kenitra and Taza universities". The committee members reiterated their determination to take on all the fight forms to liberate immediately and unconditionally all the militants of the Agadir Amazigh Cultural Movement, and to stop the violation of the residences, the threats and the kidnapping of their militants. The committee is determined to fight to emphasize the rights and interests of the Moroccan student, for the respect of the university enclosure, and for a free and democratic society, fight to defend the university sites of the ACM and avoid to the university all forms of exclusivist and totalitarian thought. At the end, the committee denounced the systematic and barbarian intervention of the makhzenian forces against the militants of Amazigh Cultural Movement of Agadir; the deliberate aggressions that undergo the militants of the Amazigh Cultural Movement from the pseudo-Sahraoui students.

It denounces also, the arbitrary detentions, the kidnappings and the violations of the residences of the militants of the Amazigh Cultural Movement and of all the students, as well as the wild aggressions against their militants in Taza by occult Arabist forces under the cover of Temporary Program (point of view 1996), and the total silence of the media on this makhzenian wild aggression. With this umpteenth injustice against the Berberist movements, the militants of the human rights and of the North African democracy are more than ever requested to combine their efforts in order to put back the Amazigh language and culture in their right place both in Morocco and in North Africa.

By: Mohamed Mouloudj Source: La Dépêche de Kabylie - May 27,2007 Translation : D. Messaoudi

kabylia observer