KABYLIA (TAMURT) – We publish below the full press release from Lyazid Abid, president of the Kabyle political movement “Union pour la République Kabyle” (URK), on the Algerian state’s sponsorship of terrorism in the Sahel and Mali.
In a vitriolic statement published on Wednesday, January 1, 2025, Mali denounced through its Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation what it calls the “persistence of Algeria’s acts of interference in Mali’s internal affairs”.
The same document again raises Algeria’s support for “terrorist groups that destabilize Mali”. The statement from the Malian authorities confirms a long-known truth. Indeed, this is not the first time that Algeria has been accused of supporting, financing and arming terrorist groups to destabilize other neighboring countries.
Morocco has, on several occasions, alerted international authorities to the arms support that the Algerian regime provides to the Polisario, which engages in all kinds of trafficking. This is also what Mark Brnovich, former US Attorney General for the State of Arizona, stated in a thunderous column published in the Washington Post in January 2023, asking the White House to designate Algeria as a state sponsor of terrorism. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mali reached the same conclusion before denouncing in clear terms “Algeria’s proximity and complicity with terrorist groups that are destabilizing Mali and to whom it has offered food and shelter, while controlling their criminal actions against the Malian and Sahelian civilian populations”.
Furthermore, the manipulation and instrumentalization of terrorist groups during the black decade (1992-2022) by the Algerian regime are no longer a secret. In his book “La salle guerre” (2001), Habib Souaïdia, a former officer in the Algerian army’s special forces, recounted the bloodthirsty madness of Algerian generals who engaged in crude manipulations and ordered torture, summary executions and the murder of civilians. “I saw colleagues burn a fifteen-year-old child alive. I saw soldiers disguise themselves as terrorists and massacre civilians. I saw colonels murder, in cold blood, simple suspects,” said this former officer.
It is from this state sponsor of terrorism that Kabylia wants to separate itself. Unlike the Algerian regime, the struggle of the Kabyle people for their right to self-determination is fundamentally peaceful, based on the international right of peoples to self-determination.
The Union for the Kabyle Republic (URK) calls on the international community to react to the dangerous actions of the Algerian regime, rightly described as a “firefighter-arsonist” by Mali, and which is a source of destabilization in the Sahel region and North Africa.
Lyazid Abid, President of the URK
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