AMAZIGH WORLD CONGRESS / AGADIR STATEMENTAMAZIGH WORLD CONGRESS / AGADIR STATEMENT

Kamira Nait Sid, president of the Amazigh World Congress general VII ° congress CMA Agadir declaration: Amazighity democratic venture Following its basic congress held from July 24 to 26, 2015 in Agadir, the global meeting of World Amazigh Congress (CMA) mentioned: VII ° normal congress of the CMA was a distinctive moment of gathering of Amazigh wrestle for his or her correct to their language and culture, their land, their territories, resources, freedom, justice, dignity and peace. Imazighen have an replace on the various forms of denial, theft, pressured assimilation, violence and oppression they experience in the quite a lot of nations of Tamazgha (North Africa and the Sahara). In Algeria, the persons Mzab suffered prior this July, yet another deadly assault from pan-Arab Muslim-groups with the help of the Algerian police. As if that weren’t adequate, thirty Mozabites had been arbitrarily arrested and mistreated. In Kabylia, the defenders of the Amazigh intent and activists for the right to self-selection of Kabylia are area to police harassment and ongoing complaints. The educating of the Amazigh language is in decline despite the fact that this language is famous as a country wide language for 15 years. Morocco has also well-known the Amazigh language, granting it the popularity of authentic language in 2011. However we see that this cognizance is purely formal. Correctly, nothing has come have an understanding of the formalization of the Amazigh language. For that reason, now not handiest the Amazigh no growth however as a substitute, it fell including and especially within the discipline of schooling the place the unwell will of the state is denounced by lecturers and parents scholars. The repressive reflex additionally stays reward and makes victims chiefly within the ranks of activists defenders of political, monetary, social and cultural rights of the Amazigh. Tunisia is commonly awarded as an illustration of democratic transition is the denial international locations vis-à– vis the Amazigh language and indigenous tradition. The new structure of the nation adopted in 2014, wholly obscures the Amazigh history and fact of this nation and the legitimate speeches with ease deny the existence of Tunisian Amazigh residents. In Libya, the North and South are facing a Imazighen chaotic situation, the outcome of civil conflict between more than a few armed Islamic-pan-Arab businesses for manage of vigour and oil resources. The future of the Amazigh in Libya could be very unsure and bearer of significant problem. The crisis of Kel-Tamashek (Tuareg) is a different source of crisis for the folks of the Sahara (Azawad, southeast Algeria, South Libya, North Niger) is contained in the vise shaped by means of the predatory forces of its traditional resources and local weather alternate. The two motives mixed go away indigenous peoples as pollution and the drying up of important resources similar to water and vegetation. On the borders of jap Tamazgha is the Amazigh group of the Siwa oasis in the center of Libyan wasteland. Lengthy protected by using its geographic isolation, cultural and linguistic particularism siwi defenseless, is disappearing by the hands of Arab-Islamization. The Canary Islands within the west, invaded through the Spanish conquistadors in the 15th century, today Africa’s final European colony. Additionally to the looting of the Canary resources through Spain, the Canary Islands territory is used by NATO forces as a watchtower and as a military base whose war machines are capable to intervene anywhere in Africa. Actually, in all international locations Tamazgha, the threats to the Amazigh humans and their socio-cultural identity, are numerous and multifaceted. Even as solemnly reaffirming our aspiration to enjoy absolutely and without problems all our rights and freedoms as recognized internationally to all peoples of the sector, our meeting recommends: citizens and Amazigh businesses: – the exact reaffirmation of the Amazigh in its old, social, cultural and linguistic – the permanent reaffirmation of the claims of political, monetary, social and cultural rights of the Amazigh, – the systematic use of all the instruments and possibilities to advertise and / or protect Amazigh rights, – the systematic denunciation of discrimination, violence and violations of the rights of the Amazigh, corresponding to newly dedicated crimes against the persons Mozabite in Algeria – an expression of team spirit between the Amazigh, in all forms – union Amazigh actors and selling partnership family members with all open and democratic organizations in harmony with Amazigh reason. To neighbors and accomplice companies Peoples: – The expression of solidarity with the Amazigh individuals and for the realization of his individual and collective rights and freedoms, – The denunciation of violence, and intimidation prohibited exercised through the police on human rights activists and restrictions on freedom of action of residents-not-s, – support for prisoners Amazigh currently incarcerated insurance policies. In Morocco they are advocates of indigenous humans to their land, their usual resources and their language and tradition (Oussaya Mustafa Hamid Ouattoch …). In Algeria, there is a thirty Mozabites citizens arbitrarily detained, together with Dr. Kamel Eddine Fekhar, human rights, – help for the population of the village of Imider (Morocco), on strike for forty eight months in opposition to the Metallurgical Society of Imider (SMI), which robs abused their land and their normal assets, including water, scarce and relevant to this neighborhood residing in a wasteland subject of southern Morocco, – aid for the entire struggles of communities towards land grabbing and plundering of typical assets specifically in mountain areas and for the right to normal property management of their territories, – help the self-selection of all peoples, . With out distinction and exceptionally the humans who undergo from a colonial problem Our assembly requires states Tamazgha: – The immediate unlock of all political detainees Amazigh in Algeria and Morocco, their rehabilitation and compensation for damages, – L discontinue institutional racism and anti-Amazigh violence – to place an immediate finish to all such legal guidelines and administrative and abusive police practices that severely violate the right of assembly and the right to the expression of civil society corporations and democratic political movements as was once the case just lately in Morocco and Algeria – to instantly stop expropriation of land of the Amazigh and their return the plundered land and / or compensate them particularly and freely authorised, – To totally respect the diversity of peoples, communities, languages and cultures, as repeatedly encouraged by using all international businesses, together with Unesco and the quite a lot of relevant UN bodies, – To open the land border between Morocco and Algeria closed due to the fact that 1994 – To appreciate their commitments and tasks chiefly in phrases of recognition and appreciate for human rights and most important freedoms as they’re universally well-known. The northern states of Africa are urged to respect the Amazigh peoples the status of indigenous peoples and recognize in its entirety the United countries statement on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples – in all nations of Tamazgha: Constitutional cognizance for the Amazigh identification, cognizance of the Amazigh language as an respectable language and its instantaneous translation into laws for the Amazigh language and tradition in these international locations, above all the preferred instructing of the Amazigh language in any respect stages colleges and universities, – awareness by way of the Spanish state of “chemical conflict” Rif inflicted on populations in the course of the interval of the Republic of the Rif (1921-1926), and compensation for victims – the release of prisoners of Azawad in Mali’s prisons following the clash between Azawad and Mali. In worldwide our bodies – States and key international fora, especially the UN, the ecu and the AU, are urged to implement all political, legal and economic so as to force the North African states to recognize their international duties with regards to m an or woman and collective rights – worldwide bodies are challenged about the militarization phenomenon within the countries of northern Africa, it which constitutes a significant risk to human protection, such because the Canary Islands used by NATO as a navy base for manage of the African continent – safeguard the historic and cultural heritage Amazigh, abandoned with the aid of states – From take emergency measures Azawad refugees in neighboring nations, particularly Mauritania, and inspire their return to stipulations of dignity, – Design and put in force mechanisms to create internationally, spaces of participation civil society firms, in all worldwide negotiations. Agadir, 14/07/2965 – 07/26/2015 members of Congress common meeting on July 15 Siwel 291713 http://www.Siwel.Info/Congres-Mondial-Amazigh-announcement-d-Agadir_a7714.Html]]>