Where are they, the Algerian revolutionaries, those of Algeria’s “Izza Wa El Karama” (honor and dignity), those of the selective right, those of the peoples to self-determination, those of historical legitimacy hidden in the colonial cabarets and lupanars of Morocco and Tunisia, those who have put the country in a settled cup, those who dare in a reversed role play, trying to make France feel guilty about its colonial past?

Where are they? Absolute silence. Some hidingas those torturing generals, and the other still in care in Germany are hiding, like jackals, after their committed crimes.

Torture and rape in Algeria are systemic; they are a policy of the Algerian state

By hiding and by this calculated silence, they try by this tactic to play down this immoral scandal, which is torture, to reduce it to a mere police blunder and not a matter of state. Torture and rape in Algeria are systemic; they are a policy of the Algerian state, or rather the Algerian non-state.

The Arab-Islamist military junta in power, whose dictatorial character is proven, is itself the State, it has never embarrassed itself about the rights of the people of this country and even the international human rights organizations that have already denounced and condemned it.

Walid Nekiche, the Kabyle student, a peaceful demonstrator, arrested and suspected of belonging to the MAK, Movement for the Self-Determination of Kabylia, opened the cupboards of torture of the Algerian military junta. Tacitly wanting to say that belonging to the MAK, which fights for the legitimate right of self-determination, recognized internationally, is a crime that deserves torture and rape.

Walid is the only one among the dozens of demonstrators arrested and imprisoned, who confessed to physical abuse (…), to have put, not only a name, torture, on this violence, but to have dared to speak of sexual abuse and rape, so much this subject is a silenced taboo in the theocratized Algerian “society”.

The victim carries a heavy psychological and social weight within him, and it is this fact that encourages the junta’s torturers to practice it, conscious that the victims will keep silent about these infamous acts. Their rapes are exposed. It is necessary that all the victims of these sexual abuses come forward and denounce this mafia regime composed of perverted and sexually frustrated people.

Moreover, many activists and especially peaceful Kabyle independence activists have suffered these tortures, certainly not to the same degree as those suffered by Walid.
In addition to the physical violence, it is the destitution suffered by the activists that is real psychological torture, as the relationship to the body, whether male or female, in Kabyle society is very codified.


These militants are dehumanized and humiliated because they are Kabyle and also if they are close to or militant of the MAK.

Torture a scandal, an immorality, an insult to the human condition, which Walid suffered and which other detainees dare not confess, in Algerian police stations, is not an accident, it is not an isolated act of a zealous agent but a systematic, systemic practice, a deliberate, thoughtful policy.

What was silent, hidden, whispered, Torture, a challenge to the human conscience, practiced by the Arab-Islamist military junta against the Algerians and the Kabyles in particular, explodes in their faces and in full light before the whole world.

This torture, reactivates in the Kabyle memories not only those of colonization but even more those, suffered under the hand of the torturers of Abdellah Khalef alias Kasdi Merbah, Lamari, Mohamed Mediene alias Toufik, Gaid Salah, Tartag, Chengriha and the entire junta.

If in the midst of the war, colonial France used torture and tried to find a justification for it, one could still found Frenchmen, men of good will and even officers like General Jacques de la Bollardière to denounce these inhuman and immoral acts.

Today in 2021 Algeria in peacetime, and against peaceful political activists, there is the total, cowardly silence of the so-called “elite”, and the only people who have denounced this torture have done so with the sole aim of preserving the factitious “national unity”.

This pseudo-moral indignation is rather a political preoccupation to try to blur, the still naive Kabyle who believe in this smoke of pseudo national unity or to preserve from shame those Algerianist Kabyle who persist in wanting to attach Kabylia to this chimera called Algeria whose colonial and immoral character is no longer to be demonstrated.

Torture against Kabyle militants will remain ineffective, the peaceful political struggle for the independence of Kabylia is noble. They are not alone and they have the support of the Kabyle people, and these inhumane acts further ignite the fires of indignity and determination of the Kabyle people to wrest independence from Kabylia.

Like a wild animal following its instincts, the junta makes no clear distinction between good and evil. Imbued with its arrogance and impunity, it falls into the unspeakable.

CLKI – Free Chroniclers of Independent Kabylia
Translated from SIWEL 090930 FEB 21