The politico-military regime that rules Algeria with an armed hand is organising a new electoral farce on 7 September 2024 in an attempt to give itself the legitimacy it has always lacked. As usual, the incumbent ‘president’, Mr Tebboune, is seeking a new mandate and he will be ‘elected’ without any doubt or surprise, because it has already been decided that he will be.
What has Mr Tebboune done for the Amazigh people of this country during his term of office, which is now drawing to a close? He has filled the prisons, he has sentenced some to death, he is at least morally responsible for hundreds of deaths, thousands of exiles, and the appalling suffering inflicted on millions of Amazighs, particularly Kabyles, At-Mzab and Chawis. As supreme head of the Algerian state since 2019, Mr Tebboune is the trigger for the devastating tsunami of repression that has swept through Kabylia. This territory, a stronghold of Amazigh identity, is being harassed from all sides, subjected to arbitrary police and judicial measures that terrorise the population, leaving them no choice but to remain silent or go into exile. The Arab-Islamic Algerian authorities make no secret of their aim to ‘normalise’ Kabylia by dispossessing it of everything that makes it unique: its language, its culture, its civilisation and the spirit of justice and resistance that drives its people. The Algerian government’s plan is clearly to eradicate Amazighness in Kabylia, as in the rest of Algeria.
Like his predecessors, during his term in office Mr Tebboune has made no gesture of appeasement, nor has he attempted the slightest dialogue with the battered Kabylia. On the contrary, he has allowed the supporters of ‘zero Kabyle’ to express themselves, has let free the criminals who have burnt down Kabylia, particularly in 2021, and imprisoned innocent people, and has made serious threats against Kabyles who refuse his diktat.
For all these reasons, Kabylia has never really participated in Algerian elections, particularly since the terrible black spring of 2001. For all these reasons, the World Amazigh Congress calls on all Amazighs in Algeria not to take part in the electoral deception of 7 September. This will be a masterly way of demonstrating our rejection of the deadly Algerian system which governs this country by force, fear, and corruption.
Ulac lvot ulac
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Paris, 24/08/2974 – 5/09/2024 The CMA Bureau.
No Amazigh vote for Algeria’s authoritarian regime
