TO THE PRESIDENCY OF THE ALGERIAN REPUBLIC

TO THE ALGERIAN GOVERNMENT AND PARLIAMENT

Copies :

To Mr. Ban Ki Moon, General UN secretary

To the members of the UN Security Council

To the members of the European Union

To the African Union

On the 5th of June 2008, our movement sent you an official letter requesting a regional autonomy for Kabylia  , with copies to the international authorities.

More than twenty (20) months later, not having received any reply, we are sending you this reminder to make you aware of the urgency to satisfy this legitimate claim.

In the name of reason and good sense, the M.A.K believes in the necessity to get some answer other than contempt, silence or repression, which up to now, characterized your attitude.

Before the coming 30th anniversary of the “Spring of April 80” and the 9th anniversary of the “black Spring of April 2001”, Kabylia has the right to hope for its official and definite recognition by the Algerian government.

That would crown decades of hard times that, you and your precursors, often inflicted to Kabylia in a cruel and bloody way since 1962. This recognition would be also the best way to pay tribute to all those who lost their lives for Kabylia and its freedom.

Such was the destiny of so many generations of Kabyles :

From Fadma NR Summer (1857), to Chikh Amar (1956), Amirouche and Abderrahmane Oumira (1959).

From Ameqran (Mokrani) and Chikh Aheddad (1871) to Abane Ramdane (1957).

From Amar Imache (1960) to Bessaoud Mohand Arav (2002).

From Mbarek At Mangellat, Amar At Hammuda and Bennaï Ouali (1956) to Krim Belkacem (1971).

From Mouloud Feraoun (1962) to Mouloud Mammeri (1989).

From Said Mekbel (1994) to Matoub Lounès (1998).

From the 400 FFS-members killed by the ANP (Algerian army), between 1963 and 1965, to the 127 young people killed by the Algerian Gendarmerie in 2001-2003.

From the Intellectuals like Tahar Djaout, Mahfoud Boucebci or Smail Yefsah to the political militants like Rachid Tigziri, Djaffer Ouahioune, Mbarek Mahiout and Achour Belghezli (years 93-94).

From Dr. Ali Mecili (1987) to Ameziane Mehenni (2004) assassinated in France.

From Has Medri (1964) to Mohand Ouharoun (1996).

And so many more who withered in the Algerian prisons, where they were humiliated, ravished and tortured by the Algerian regime, for which, the name of “Kabyle” always sounds like “enemy”…

Today, Kabylia wishes to recover its own right to exist.

A right recognized by the international laws and which the Algerian Republic, I should point out, has signed.

The coming April 20th, 2010, must be “the” day of Kabylia’s freedom.

This expectation is so strong that a new disappointment would be intolerable.

Long live free and autonomous Kabylia ! Long live plural Algeria !

MAK,

Ferhat Mehenni

Brussels, on February 25th, 2010