« On behalf of the Algerian People and government and, myself, I congratulate you, ….. Baathist brotherhood formula... » - writes the Algerian imposture and 3rd term rigger Abdelaziz Bouteflika to his counterpart Saleh of Yemen. Yemen did not launch its sputnik, or achieve a break through in any domain deemed an advancement for its people or Humanity. The only thing happening in Yemen, for weeks now, is massacre of civilians by a group of well armed mercenaries in uniform, called “an army” under the orders of another group of mercenaries some in suits and others in turbon, collectively known as “the regime.” Across turbulent Egypt and Tunisia, and till under suspicion of sending weapons and melicias to help his 3rd brother in trouble Moammar, Anxious Bouteflika this week is limiting his help to moral support only to yet another troubled brother Saleh - openly that is, and some weapons discretely, for sure. Like Bouteflika and the rest of the league of shame, Saleh is an imposture, made President by a military junta, which continues, with total immunity, to sweep its streets with the blood of its own people. The occasion Bouteflika chose to publish his take on the Arabian mobilization and marchs is, that of the consolidation of power by the Yemenit military army, dubbed “Yemen’s Reunification” - The choice speaks rivers about the megaloman and methods. Behind this seemingly routine congratulation message hides a subliminal hidden one, intended for domestic consumption – More so, it indicates who in Algeria it sent to : Kabylians - An ethnically, culturally and every other way different People, within the 1857 created Algeria. Kabylians are and have been since even before the the uprising against the French occupation been accused as having their own agenda. In 1949 the trouble was that of stirring troubles to their beloved France and, in post colonial times to defend this country for rawning the country in Western obstructionism. The message is not that explicit, its clue is in the ending « … rejection of any foreign interference and the respect of the decision of each People which stems from its national sovereignty » - The rest is the void of content, yet over used formula « ... determination to continue to develop the bilateral relation, etc. » - For recall, Algeria and Yemen do exchange anything, but old Soviet weapons and Islamic terrorists. The effect of such printings on the regime’s official publication is but desolation to Algerian population. Once the Mecca of all revolutions, the safe heaven for rebels from around the globe, Algiers today is but a mere place where old glory awaits death in desperation for some and, anguish for others. Algeria today is forbidden to protesters and lovers alike, but not to murderers or traffickers. In “The Battle Of Algiers”, the siege ends with the sentence “And The Algerian Nation is Born” - The yet to come sequal, it helas to expect “The Algerian Nation is Dead” - In Algiers any number of protesters will be met with 10 times as many anti-riot brigades. Its breezy endless trails along the sea, no longer fill with lovers soothing their temptations, sunken in the scent of orange and Jasmine growing wild. Algiers has transformed into an oasis es where Allah’s malicias, in small groups enforce laws of the Koran and beyond - their own. To all rules, there is an exception which confirms them. Half-hour drive west from the port of Algiers, another oasis, also on the shores awaits you, if you are a brother-dictator or an oil and arms dealer. The capital city of descendants of those who evicted the Phoenicians, defeated the Romans, authors of Western Christendom, separate Hell from heaven, today is unrecognizable, and so arethey ! Algiers is not dying, Algiers is dead. Those of them who flew up to highlands of Kabylia , are today’s Bouteflika, his political police and the regime’s apparatus’ enemies. They are the intended recipients of !
the imposture’s threat. I sound cynical, but I am not – I am just realist. It is not the 1st time, the regime of Algiers displays its hostility towards the Arab revolutions. They do it constantly, they just lack the courage and/or the honesty to do it clearly. Through no other than their top law enforcer Daho ould-Kablia, in an exclusive interview to one of regime’s propaganda outlets specialized in deamonizing the secular region of Kabylia, tells its islamic brotherhood protectorate where Oujda’s clan within the regime stands. « Libyan rebels are the 1st nuisance to Algeria. I think that if they succeed, relations between the two countries will be extremely tense and instable » Subordinates in all dictatorships do not have or take positions. When they speak, they are just conveying their chief’s ambiguity or as is often the case uncertainty. This is a clear attitude Boutefliaka wants his followers to take vis-a-vis the upraisings from Tunis to Damascus including Yemen ; but more importantly, those marching in Algiers, the majority of whom are of Kabylian extraction. Not long after ould Kablia, Bouteflika confirms - On April 15, in a short, monotonic and not surprising speech on prime time TV, to the Algerian masses, Bouteflika acknowledges his anguish, and that of the power’s anguish - « Algeria is naturally following the ongoing mutations on the international arena, particularly those in certain Arab countries. In face of this situation, Algeria(regime) reaffirms its attachment to these brother-countries , their unity, its(Algeria’s) rejection of any foreign interference and the respect of the decision of each People which stems from its n !
ational sovereignty », he read from a piece of paper. Long and ambiguous sentences, full of contradictions, causing him shortening of breath. Algerians did not expect to finish his the sentences, but to drop at once on his papers. 48 Hours earlier, on April 13th 2011, Abdelaziz Belkhadem, Secretary of the FLN(National Liberation Front), and personal representative of Bouteflika, attempted to minimize the effects of Tunisian revolts eastward. In a TV comment at a political talk-show also staged by the regime (A3 Channel), Belkhadem commented on the fall of Mubarek and Ben Ali. « In Algeria, “we” have a higher view of revolution. A revolution must have objectives, and a direction. », he said. Contrarily to his boss, lieutenant Belkhadem, and former coordinator with the Iranian embassy in Algiers during the Islamic up-evil of the 90s, openly attacked Libyan rebels. « Lybian opponents called for help fron NATO to massacre their own brothers. We, we fought against NATO ! » he declares. While the Islamist Belkhadem kept quiet during the weeks of the tunisian and Egyptian uprisings, his rant against the Lybians comes days after the insurgents in Lybia announced the capture of Algerian milicias fighting side by side with the tyrant’s forces. Having initially dismissed the revolt as “agitations guided by foreign hands”, Belkhadem ambivalence signals his boss and the regime disorientation, and sudden isolation - particularly after the announcement, by the Moroocan monarc, of global reforms in continuation of those he started last year, when he setup a commission to come up with modalities for radical political transformation towards federalism. A configuration which will give more local control to provinces and, would satisfy the Amazigh(Berber) majority’s demands for recognition of their ethnic authenticity, and desire for self-determination. The move would also provide an ideal context for the resolution of the Polisario conflict. Taken by an unsuspected Panick, the dinosaur Bouteflika announced political reforms. Reforms which he on behalf of his clan, and yet to be revealed rep from the Eastern clan decided. Inviting “opponents” to consultation is but a stunt for international Media critic consumption. Having already decided the agenda, the actors and modalities, Algerians already know that the regime is just playing with time, enough of it until the situation calms down elsewhere. But also and why not, exploit this opportunity to put under control, the less than minority opposition. Indeed, not having a safe majority in parlement, Bouteflika through his lieutenants conveyed to the public that he intends to introduce Constitutional Amendements, but only after he dissolves the Assembly, which he qualifies as illegitimate. This logic makes the Algerian opinion dumb-found. This docile assembly 15 months ago, endorsed his 3rd term. In his pseudo-consultation attempts, 3 political partys have already rejected the offer, while an Islamist tending one, MSP (former radical and twin brother of the Palestinian Hamas by the same name) currently in the governing coalition enjoys no less than 4 portfollios. But sure enough to help Bouteflika argue against the opposing clan, the Islamists began setting conditions, central of which, the rehabilitation of the Islamist leaders, who had set the country on fire. They want a theocracy, and the unwanted Bouteflika amongst the military would like to be their Emir. An Emir acceptable to the West. But these calculations do not concern the majority of Algerians, least of which Kabylians. Theocracies since long long time ago, as far back as the 3rd century, have been defeated ideologically and militarily. The homeland of Donatists and other opponents to Constantine, !
Kabylia has blocked the Emperor control of the Church, countered Catholicism in some regions, and gave birth to the Baptist Church and derived Protestant denominations. Today, the majority of Kabylians are Moslims, but the entirety of them feacily combat theocracy and extremism, which they anonymously and alone continue to endure, while Western powers amongst them the US ventures in calling Bouteflika and the regime at large “A reliable ally in the fight against Islamic terrorism.” There is no free or independent press in Algeria, not even those which defend one clan or another, and thus have some latitude in criticizing the other clan. Nonetheless, however differently expressed and for whatever reason, the popular consensus in Algeria proper, is that not only the persons, but the nature of the “system” is to be dismantled – The demand is not for reform or change of people, but for the construction of a new State all together – The divergence is in the method of doing so. To the radical Islamists, still active and well and represented by the MSP, the only way out of crisis is the recognition of their Sharia agenda through the legal re-entry into the political arena of Islamist leaders, must of whom belong in hell. Opposite from them, 10 million Kabylians and most politically active group with territory expanding several administrative provinces, which see no possibility of cohabitation with even a reformed regime, the Islamists or the rest of Arab speaking and Moslim Algeria for that matter, without a complete and formal recognition of their Sovereignty as a separate People. In short their self-determination as an autonomous region within Algeria. The civilian government controlled by Bouteflika’s clan, also referred to as “Oujda’s Clan” for its anchorage in the town of Oujda, Morocco ; as a way to insist on their exclusion racially and culturally, has always controlled the the political police, whose prime mission since the independence has been to the surveillance of the Kabylian provinces. Successfully so, the propaganda against Kabylian conspiracies paid off and continues to do so. And, since the Kabylian support to the military “Eradicators” in 1991, the divorce between Kabylia and the rest of Algeria, including non-radicals has been consummated - Today, it is frequently and readily reminded to them that Kabylia is where the military found civilian support to block the the 90s attempt to do with the regime. It is the unspoken truth about the nature of the so-called “Silent Demoratic Majority of Algerians”, a majority split along ethnic lines which prevents it from finding a unified line of conduct !
. Their “change the regime from within” is qualified as “utopia” by the two other competing tendencies : Islamists and Autonomists. Their portrayal as “the opposition” may resonate with foreign intellectuals, but in Algeria, it has no substance exception perhaps to animate a comedy show. Their symbolic representation as a minority in the Assembly, by design by the regime, is seen and understood by the street as, a mockery and precisely where the regime finds its resilience. They are what can be called the Unpatriotic Nationalists, whose soul is now bought with potatoes after having been worth some oil dinaros few decades ago. Bouteflika’s announcement of “major political reforms,” comes at a time when the Kabylia based majority in the “opposition” to fortify the “Algerianist clan (Military) expressed skepticism towards Bouteflika’s propositions, and began a just as did the Islamists representative(MSP) set its conditions by setting the tone of their, through their own “Independent Press” in line with that the Kabylian Movement for Autonomy (M.A.K) - Whilst their demands are for the opening of media and the dissolution of all assemblies, they insist that such operation could not possibly be carried out by a new assembly formed under the same government. Thus a new Provisionary Government must also be formed. The counter attack plan is to insert the military in the mix as a guarantor of the Constitution, with the hope of producng in turn a National Assembly capable of rejecting any baathist or Islamist assembly dear desired by the Oujda clan, The legitimate rational is the const !
ruction of an independent Assembly Assembly capable of keeping the executive branch in leach - Particularly, to exercise a tighter control over oil and gaz revenues, do with corruption and, secure the control of few other areas of governance by regional governments, such as Education, religious affairs which they want out of government, and of course security. The rational for the latter points is that Terrorism and Islamic activism which affected mostly Arab-speaking regions during the up-evil of the 90s, must be done with, once and for all – A culture which they accuse, rightly so, the regime to have developed and promoted as a mean to condition society at large (Kabylians and others) with fear while ruling under the umbrella of a permanent state of emergency. While in the middle east, Israel served that purpose, in north Africa, manufactured AQMI seem to do the same, just right. After half-century of independence from France, forced Arabification, or forced and coersive transformation into Arabs of an African society through mandatory learning in schools, public and private, the institution of Islam as State’s religion, except from Kabylians, the rest of Algeria is plunged in a deep state of inertia and and confusion about their falsified history and identity. Whilst the teaching of Arabic and, monopoly of Islam over any form of spiritual life is not opposed outside Kabylia, most if not all Algerians, finally understood that regime grip on spiritual life and the emergence of Islamic violence in a historically secalar is the works of the regime. In Kabylia, following the general uprising in 2001 following by an entire year boycott of schools, and the eviction of the gendarmes(military police), the regime ventured in luring repent-terrorists to the province, plunging the entire region into terror. Kidnappings, and olive trees burnings forced the pop !
ulation to accept the transformation of their “little Switzerland” mountainous region into a training battle field, in parallel with constant and continual intimidation and harassment of Protestant Churches, not protected by the Vatican. The tension is unbearable to regime, it must be slowed down and eventually under control. In recent days and following the 2 days visit of Foreign Affairs Minister Medelci to Washington, the regime engaged in a propaganda announcing an upcoming visit of no other than the US State Secretary Hilary Clinton. Visits by other French high level envoys emboldened Bouteflika, whose plan to avoid or postpone the uprising is doomed to fail. In Kabylia, las week end, a generalized mobilization for the release of two hostages believed to be taken by the regime’s secret police ended with a last ultimatum to the regime, a highlighted the legitimacy of the Kabylians to seek separation from the “one Country, one state, one language, one religion, one every thing” - Of interest is the vast coverage by the independent press of the event, particularly the online media ; and the reluctant ones in Kabylia, fearing a bloodshed finally understood that there is no possibility of peaceful and p !
olitical resolution to their desire to extract themselves from Arabo-Islamic obstructionism, and formalize Western values which developed right there in their backyards – After all, it is th that the word Western itself gained its meaning as we know it. Algerians and amongst them the largest minority, of neary a 1/3 of the population, will be carefully scrutinizing Secretary Clinton’s words, seeking to hear the echoe of their grievances, which logic imposes as the only path towards a stable and prosperous Algeria, and a 100 millions souls potential economic partner. As I write these last sentences, I read that Bouteflika and his clan plan to reenforce AQMI’s ranks with several thousands trained and experienced terrorists with plenty of blood on their hands ? The blood of innocents children, young and old girls girls and even unborn infants ?
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