The "Tribal Independence Movement" calls on the international community to end the "Algerian occupation."

The Movement for the Self-Determination of Kabylie (MAK; Kabyle: Amussu i ufraniman n tmurt n iqbayliyen, officially named the Movement for the Autonomy of Kabylie (Kabyle: Afraniman i Tmurt n Yeqbayliyen) before 3 October 2013, is a Kabyle nationalist and separatist political organization seeking autonomy, self-determination rights of the Kabyle people, and ultimately independence of the Kabylie region from Algeria. It was founded by the Kabyle Berberist Ferhat Mehenni, now president of the Provisional Government of Kabylie in exile, after the "Black Spring" disturbances in 2001.

The Movement for the Independence of the Kabylie Region is a political organization that seeks to demand autonomy for the Kabylie region in Algeria. The movement was founded by popular singer Farhat Mohani after the events of the “Black Spring” in 2001. Most of the movement’s leaders live in France.

This movement demands the independence of the Kabylie region from the Republic of Algeria. In 2010 in Paris, this movement announced the formation of an interim government for the Kabylie region headed by Farhat Mhenni, who considers his movement to be the first of its kind towards the federal Algerian state.

 

The "Tribal Independence Movement" calls on the international community to end the "Algerian occupation."

( Ferhat Mehenni )

The Movement for the Independence of the Kabylie Region in Algeria, known by its abbreviation “MAC”, denounced, through its leader Farhat Mhenni, who is at the same time the head of the interim Kabyle government in exile, “ANAFAD”, the duality of the Algerian official discourse between the issues of the tribes and Palestine, calling on the UN Security Council The International Court of Justice called for an end to the Algerian military occupation of the tribes.

In a tweet posted on his official account on the “X” website (formerly Twitter), Mhanni pointed out the double standards of the Algerian regime in its dealings with the two aforementioned cases, considering that “Algeria defended, through its representative in The Hague, the idea that impunity is... The first fuel for the oppressors on the sidelines of Israel’s trial,” stressing that this matter “applies to Algeria, which escapes this punishment despite its military occupation of the tribes and its burning of their residents alive, in addition to the arrest and torture that affects tribal political activists who demand the right of the tribes to self-determination through peaceful means.”

The head of the interim tribal government in exile, Anavad, stressed that Algeria cannot boast of its adoption of the right of peoples to their sacred right to self-determination. While she criminalizes this right when it comes to demanding that she herself respect it, likening this matter to saying: “He is the thief who shouts to the thief.”

On the occasion of International Mother Language Day, Farhat Mohani called on the judges of the International Court of Justice in The Hague and the UN Security Council to set an agenda to study a set of points. Most notably, “the right of the tribal people to self-determination, Algeria’s respect for this right, and the illegality of the annexation of the tribes to Algeria by the French colonial power in 1857.”

The President of the Kabylie Republic also called on the two aforementioned international bodies to study and discuss “Algeria’s impunity with regard to the very serious human rights violations to which the Kabyle people have been exposed since 1962, and to ensure Algeria’s respect for the international laws to which it has officially joined, including for the benefit of the Kabylie people.” In addition to the issue of the necessity of putting an end to the military occupation of the tribes by Algeria as soon as possible.”

Reacting to the same issue, Axel Belabbassi, a tribal leader and advisor to the president of MAC, said, “We have great hope in Morocco and in the countries that believe in the justice of our cause, such as the Emirates, the Gulf Cooperation Council countries, and Egypt, to file a case against the Algerian regime, whether before the international judiciary or Pleading in international forums to end the Algerian military occupation of the tribes and hold the regime accountable for its crimes and grave violations that it has committed and is still committing against the defenseless tribal people.”

Belabbasi added, in a statement to Hespress, that “the Algerian regime does not advocate for the Palestinian cause for the sake of the Palestinians’ interests, nor out of love for them; Rather, he uses this issue for his narrow interests and to ensure the continuity of his existence. This is because illegitimate regimes are known to always search for justifications and issues that grant them legitimacy, and if these issues do not exist, they invent and fabricate them, and we have the best example of that in history.

The same spokesman explained that “Algeria, after failing in what it calls the Sahrawi issue or the Sahara issue that Morocco decided in its favour, today no longer has any issue to hide behind except the Palestinian issue, first in order to inspire the Algerian people and ensure their loyalty, given the centrality of this issue in their political imagination.” And historical, and then secondly to cover up its failure to reap any diplomatic fruits after decades of its support for the Polisario Front, as well as its accumulation of setbacks in a number of regional and international files and issues.”

The same tribal leader considered that “the situation in Algeria is likely to explode at any moment as a result of the failure of the regime’s internal policies on the one hand, and the deterioration of the security situation in this country on the other hand.” This is what is translated by the recent Western warnings about the danger of terrorism and kidnapping in Algeria, as these conditions will have very dire consequences for the tribal people, the Algerian people, and all the peoples of the Maghreb region,” stressing that “this is what drives us to expedite the independence of the tribes and end their occupation by Algeria, before... “The situation will explode in the latter.”