Kabylia in the Path of Autonomy: the Best Ally for Oromos, Sidamas and Ogadenis

By: Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
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[ Posted On: 2008-07-07 ]

Following the expression of a great part of interest and national fascination that was created among Oromos, Sidamas, Ogadenis, Bejas, Egyptians and Somalis because of my yesterday's article which was published under the title ‘Kabylia´s Berbers, the Brethren of the Kuchitic Oromos and Sidamas, Demand Autonomy in Algeria' (http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/67459), I decided to expand on the subject in various levels and many forthcoming articles.

With the present article, I want to make a particularly useful gift for the Kushitic Oromos, Ogadenis, Sidamas, Afars, Shekachos, Kaffas, Hadiyas, Gedeos, and Kambatas, the Eastern African brethren of the Berbers of Kabylia who officially demanded, a few days ago, their complete autonomy in Algeria.

Republishing the Proposition of Kabylia Autonomy Project (KAP) elaborated by MAK (:Movement for the Autonomy of Kabylia or - in Amazigh - Timanit I Tmurt N Yeqvayliyen), I believe I offer all the aforementioned nations an excellent text that can help them prepare their own drafts and be thus solemnly engaged in the Path of National Independence. Through this document, the Eastern African Kushites will discover what links them to the Berbers.

To this, I add the Charter of the MAK for the Rights of the Kabylian People and Kabylia that can also be adjusted for the case of the Berbers' Eastern Hammitic brethren. In fact, for Eastern and Western Hammites, the origins are common, the colonial oppression similar, and the path for freedom and liberation parallel.
And free, they will share a brilliant future of absolutely African, Hammitic – Kushitic identity and culture, having overcome colonialism once forever.

In forthcoming articles, I will explain the reasons that impose an extensive coordination among Kabylia's Berbers, the Oromos, and the other Eastern African Nations, as well as the ensuing benefits for all.

Kabylia Atonomy Poject (KAP)
http://www.north-of-africa.com/article.php3?id_article=266

Timanit I Tmurt N Yeqvayliyen – Movement for the Autonomy of Kabylia (M.A.K.)

Proposition of Kabylia Autonomy Project (KAP)

Preamble

1. Having considered the strong identity and personality of the Kabyle people throughout the centuries, a language and culture of the great Amazigh family.

A socio-political organisation unlike any other in the territory, a secular attribute for freedom, the individual respect and solidarity with others,

2. Having considered the important and vital role played by the Kabylia region in the war for independence in which, it was massively engaged,

3. Having considered the total exclusion of the Kabyle identity in the Algerian definition and the institutional discrimination against the Kabyle people since the Algerian independence,

4. Having considered the political isolation of Kabylia, from the rebellion of the FFS in 1963 to the continuous “Black Spring” of 2001 and other related events such as the “Berber Spring” in 1980, the school boycott in 1994 / 1995 and the popular rebellion and outrage generated by the assassination of Matoub Lounes...

5. Having considered the political divorce between Kabylia and the central power due to its permanent repression against Kabylia since 40 years,

6. Having considered the Soummam Congress of 1956 in favour of the Autonomy of the Wilayas,

7. Having considered the United Nations Charter, the universal declaration of human rights and the people's rights charter adopted in Algiers in 1976,

8. Having considered the rebirth of the “Archs” Kabyle as a popular movement restric ted to Kabylia in which the “ El Kser's Platform” can only be achieved through a regional autonomy,

9. Knowing that, each existing regional autonomy across the world is the product of its people's history,

10. Having considered the models of the Catalan, Flemish, Scottish, Welsh, Sardinian and Quebec and until a federal state,

11. In order to safeguard the territorial integrity of Algeria and to end the perpetual confrontation between the central power and this region, the Movement for the Autonomy of Kabylia (MAK) is submitting to a debate the Project for the Autonomy of Kabylia (PAK)

Chapter I : Definition

1. By its language, culture and history, the Kabyle People has established a distinct identity and personality.

2. The Kabyles are citizens of Algeria and belonging to the great extended family of the Amazighs or “Free men”.

3. Kabylia is their homeland. It covers the territory of the ex-wilaya III. Its administrative frontiers are limited by its language and cultural values

4. The Kabyle / Amazigh language is its official language. However, Kabylia will dispense to its citizens every foreign language judged necessary to the flourishing of its cultural, economical, social and political structures.

Chapter II : Values

1. The autonomous Kabylia pledges the respect for human rights, without distinction of sex, race, language or religion. Consequently, the present family code will be abolished, polygamy forbidden and the personal status governed by civil laws.

2. The freedom of cult will be guaranteed and religion will be considered as a private matter.

3. Democracy is the political system, which will be used by the elected institutions.

4. Kabylia will remain in solidarity with the rest of all Algerians and Amazighs in their fight for cultural and political rights.

5. Kabylia will be more open to all Algerians as Algeria will be open to all Kabyles.

Chapter III : Regional Autonomy

1. As a region, people and a nation, Kabylia must gain and preserve its regional autonomy.

2. The regional autonomy will be created in Kabylia through a local assembly, which, in function of its political majority will elect un executive body who will form the local government.

3. Other institutions susceptible to sustain the region development can be created as constitutional committee, a senate, organisations which will control the local executives.

4. The Archs will replace the present popular and communal assemblies. The towns, villages and boroughs (The basic institutions of Kabyle autonomy) will all be subject to proportional representation.

5. Kabylia will also have the right to its own crests and flag. It will sway proudly beside the Algerian flag.

6. The relevant and competent authorities of the regional Kabyle state will be related to matters of security, education, culture, health, justice, human rights, information, media, finances, taxes, the public transport and their infrastructures, the economy, the environment and the estates management.

7. The central power will keep the exclusivity of national security, the reissue of currency, and the foreign policy with respect to the interests of Kabylia. It will [the central power] regulate the economical policies between the regions until a federal state.

Chapter IV : Modalities

1. The regional autonomy will be proclaimed following a referendum organised in Kabylia.

2. Its content will be negotiated with the central power through an elected delegation for this purpose.

3. A constitutional body can then be called to ratify the Kabyle constitution following the general agreement. This project will be subject to a constitutional revision which will lay down the fundamental laws of the country, and adapted to the Kabylia reality.

http://www.makabylie.info/

Charter of the MAK, for the Rights of the Kabylian People and Kabylia
http://www.north-of-africa.com/article.php3?id_article=410

1. The Kabylian people has the right to get his official recognition by Algeria.

2. Kabylia has the right to have acknowledged administrative frontiers in conformity with its sociolinguistic reality extending, in the North, from Tizi-Nat-Aïcha in the West to Ziama Mansouriah in the East, and Djaafra in the South. She adjudges unacceptable the attachment of its territories to bordering entities where hundreds of thousand Kabylians are reduced into a minority and isolated from their fellow citizens (Jijel, Sétif, Bordj-Bou-Arreridj and Boumerdes). The litigious big urban centers will be separated by a referendum (Sétif, Bordj-Bou-Arreridj and Boumerdes).

3. Kabylia has the right to have a large autonomy statute which confers her full powers in all fields except national defense, issuance of money and, at least extant, foreign affairs.

4. Kabylia has the right to be a Kabylian Regional Republic, Democratic, Social and Secular.

5. Kabylia has the right to have her own institutions including its parliament and its government.

6. Kabylia has the right to have Kabylian as her official language.

7. Kabylia has the right to have her flag and her coat of arms.

8. Kabylia has the right to have her own school system which uppermost dispenses a teaching in her own language, away from extremism, fanaticism, racism, and gender segregation; a school system tied to science and openness on the world, technology and to the respect of the fundamental values of humanity.

9. Kabylia has the right to have her own civil security (police, forest-rangers, firemen/women, ports surveillance, airports, and sensitive economic sites).

10. Kabylia has the right to have her own media system (television channels, radios, press, communications, and other means known or coming).

11. Kabylia has the right to ensure the management of her own sustainable development, land-tenure system, urban landscaping, transport, and local taxation.

12. Kabylia has the right to have her quota of national oil (petroleum and gas) annuity proportionally to the number of her inhabitants in relation with the entire Algerian country.

13. Kabylian people has the right to be accepted as a nation within Algeria.

14. Kabylian has the right to take away her women and girls from the wicked and slanderous Algerian family code and establish real equal rights between women and men.

15. Kabylian people has the right to fight peacefully to fulfil this charter.
Kabylia has to accomplish all the duties contained in the PAK (Project for the Autonomy of Kabylia) published on April 16th, 2003.

Translated by Izemrasen
Projet d'autonomie de la Kabylie (PAK)
Kabylia autonomy project (KAP)

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About The Author: Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis - is Orientalist, Assyriologist, Egyptologist, Iranologist, Islamologist, Historian and Political Scientist. Dr. Megalommatis, 51, is the author of 12 books, dozens of scholarly articles, hundreds of encyclopedia entries, and thousands of articles. He speaks, reads and writes more than 15, modern and ancient, languages.

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