First published on Feb/04/2021

To Mr. Scott Morrison, Prime Minister of Australia.Subject: Illegal exploitation of the Tala Hamza mining site (Vgayet-Kabylia, North Africa) by the Australian company TERRAMIN which will cause disastrous consequences on the environment and the population of the whole Region.

An Australian company (TERRAMIN : https://www.terramin.com.au/project/tala-hamza-project/) plans to mine a deposit metalliferous in Kabylia (Tala Hamza, Vgayet) against the will of the local population, Kabylian people, the Movement for the Self-Determination of Kabylia and Anavad (Kabyle Provisional Government in exile).

This opposition is based on legal, human, ecological and sanitary:

The Kabylia territory is that of an indigenous people who, in accordance with the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples 2007, calls for the ownership of this land and its subsoil, and refuses anyone to despoil it.

On September 28, 2020, Mr Ferhat MEHENNI, President of Anavad Kabyle Provisional Government in exile handed over to the UN a memorandum on the Right to Self-Determination of kabyle people, is awaiting a referendum to decide democratically and sovereignly about its future. As long as this referendum consultation will not take place, under the auspices of the UN, the exploitation of this deposit will remain illegal.

The political rupture between Algeria and Kabylia is consumed by acts bellicose and repressive on the Algerian side (1963-65, 1980, 2001, 2014 to date) and, on the Kabylians by the boycott of the elections since 1999. As an indication, the last two more electoral and presidential deadlines of 12/10/2019 and constitutional revision of 01/11/2020 recorded a rate of participation close de 0%.

The seismicity of the region is so dangerous that the fracturing of the soils would raise there utter irresponsibility.

The pollution that will be generated by the start of the project, over an area of 125 km2, will have negative repercussions on both public health, fauna and Flora.

This deposit is located in an area with human density which borders on 400 inhabitants per square kilometer, and its exploitation would lead to human tragedies in wide scale.

For all these reasons, we ask you to use all legal means including you power and to notify TERRAMIN of the illegality of this project and to express your position regarding the non-compliance of the Algerian-Australian contract with theinternational law.

Hoping with all our strength that your intervention will bear fruit, we send you our greetings full of the hope of the Kabyle people to live in peace, on their own territory.

Exile, Feb/04/2021
Ferhat MEHENNI, President of Anavad (Kabyle Provisional Government in exile)