A new episode in the Algerian regime’s ‘dahdouh’ series has just been broadcast by the regime’s propaganda TV channel, the notorious ENTV, known as ‘l’inique’ (iniquitous).
This time, the Algerian services are portraying a certain M.Z. as the organiser of an alleged arms deal from the port of Marseille to the port of Vgayet (formerly Bejaïa) in Kabylia on behalf of the MAK (Movement for the Self-Determination of Kabylia). The setting is perfect, with Marseille and the French Connection and Vgayet not far from Cap Sigli. It’s a shame that this person is totally unknown to the Kabyle independence movement and the Kabyle opposition in general. This person, who is active on social networks with a false profile, is undoubtedly a member of the Algerian services.
This soap opera of the Dahdouheries goes back a long way, to December 1978 at least, when the regime, wanting to conceal the succession disputes following the death of the dictator Boumediene, simply set up a scurrilous affair involving the dropping of weapons at Cap Sigli in Kabylia to create a diversion. More than forty years later, no one in Kabylia, from any of the opposition movements, has ever seen the colour of those famous weapons.
In 2021, in a new theatrical play by the regime, the main character went by the gentle name of Dahdouh and was to act as arms supplier to the Movement for the Self-Determination of Kabylia (MAK). All this only to classify the MAK as a ‘terrorist organisation’ a few months later. Here is a regime that funds two terrorist organisations, the Polisario and Hamas, and shamelessly describes as terrorist a movement led by a committed poet and writer who is calling for a referendum on self-determination in the most peaceful way possible, a demand based on historical, linguistic and cultural legitimacy and on international law.
In August 2021, this regime will go so far as to attempt genocide in Kabylia by setting it on fire. These apocalyptic fires caused the death of nearly five hundred Kabyles by calcification and the immeasurable destruction of flora and fauna. The sordid assassination of an opponent, Djamel Bensmail, was organised by the regime’s services to create a diversion and accuse the MAK.
Reacting to this new case, the President of the MAK ‘categorically denies the latest false allegations from Algiers and demands an international investigation to expose the desperate Algerian regime’.
After a series of setbacks on the international stage, the latest of which was France’s recognition of the Moroccan status of the Western Sahara, after those of Spain and Saudi Arabia, and Israel’s elimination of the Hamas leader in the heart of Teheran, whom the Algerian regime wanted to host in Algiers, Algerian diplomacy has been humiliated in the worst possible way.
The regime is isolated and desperate. In the run-up to an early presidential ‘election’ scheduled for early September 2024, in which the regime fears a probable fourth outright and massive boycott by Kabylia, the regime is once again trying to muddy the waters with this new Dahdouherie.
But the Kabyles, and Algerians too, are not fooled, and this Machiavellian manoeuvre is doomed to failure.
The Algerian regime will have Kabylia’s answer on 7 September when the electoral masquerade takes place. A clear and unequivocal response to the irrevocable rejection of the colonial Algerian regime in Kabylia in favour of the total sovereignty of the Kabyle people over their ancestral territory.
Aqvayli Amunnan
Kabylia, 14 August 2024
The false story of Cap Sigli
This story was created by the Algerian state to smear the Kabyles. When the dictator Boumediene was at the end of his life, they made people believe that the Moroccan army had dropped arms in Kabylia to destabilise the country. This story took place in December 1978, when Boumediene had just entered his 4ᵉ week of agony. On the night of 10 to 11 December the Algerian army took off a plane from Bejaia airport and then dropped several bundles of arms and munitions at Cap Sigli between the wilayas of Bejaia and Tizi Ouzou. According to eyewitness accounts (invented by the authorities), the plane was a Hercules C 130 (how could such a large plane have crossed a large part of Algeria without being located?) Following this false story, a dozen Kabyle (the vast majority moudjahidines who had fought in the war against France) were arrested, tortured and unjustly imprisoned. One of these prisoners, Tahar Saadi, mysteriously committed suicide in the Constantine military prison. Many people close to the SM (military security) who were allegedly involved in some way in this operation eventually revealed that it had been staged in order to stigmatise the Kabyles and divert the public’s attention from the quarrels within the upper echelons of the State.