At the level of political ideas, the Kabyles have seen everything and proposed everything to democratize Algeria: regionalization, positive regionalization, modular regionalization, federalism, regional autonomy, linguistic and cultural autonomy, and so on.

Faced with all these proposals, the Kabyles always reap the same response from the Algerian army, and now from the excessively Islamized, even Salafized Algerian people: giving the finger.

Faced with this constant response from the Algerian army and regime, the MAK opted for self-determination. The difference between the above-mentioned options and self-determination is that the latter is not to beg from the Algerian regime or the Algerians, but an international law adopted and guaranteed by the United Nations since 1966, and ratified by Algeria. in 1968.

Self-determination cannot be negotiated with the state that wants to prevent it, because this state cannot be both judge and party.

Self-determination is the exclusive business of the people who want to decide on their own for their future, it is up to them to choose to emancipate themselves from the power that oppresses them or to continue in this oppression. The right to self-determination has provided a tool for managing this issue and this tool is called “the referendum on self-determination”.

The MAK is working to create the conditions for the organization of such a referendum. The principle of self-determination therefore puts the oppressor state in its place and forces it to guarantee the holding of this referendum.

The principle of self-determination recognizes only one arbiter: the international community through commissions appointed by the UN. The oppressive state and the people seeking emancipation are seen as two equal parties in the same conflict.

By thus opting for self-determination, the MAK is on the right track to deprive the Algerian regime, present or future, of the monopoly of management of Kabylia by raising this question on the negotiating table of the United Nations.

The next step for the MAK and the Kabyles will be to include Kabylia on the United Nations list of territories to be decolonized, officially called “Non-Self-Governing Territories”, and defined by the United Nations as follows: “The terms of Chapter XI of the Charter of the United Nations are qualified as non-self-governing, the “territories whose populations do not yet administer themselves completely”. In its resolution 66 (I) of 14 December 1946, the General Assembly listed the 72 territories to which Chapter XI of the Charter applied.

In 1963, the Special Committee to Study the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples (also known as the “Special Committee on Decolonization” or “C- 24”) approved a preliminary list of territories to which the Declaration applied (A/5446/Rev.1, annex I).

At present, 17 Non-Self-Governing Territories, listed below, remain on the agenda of the Special Committee. Administering Powers are the Member States of the United Nations that have or assume responsibility for administering these territories. (definition taken from the United Nations website) https://www.un.org/dppa/decolonization/fr/nsgt

Convinced Kabyles, stay confident, don’t be fooled by other Kabyles who dream of democratizing Algeria.

Algeria was a French creation which did not respect the realities of the peoples it found there. The creation of Algeria was the result of another dream, that of the sect of Saint-Simonians who dreamed of creating an Arab-Muslim kingdom within the French empire of Napoleon 3. At the head of this sect, Thomas Urbain, who became Ismaÿl Urbain, after converting to Islam.

By the way, it should perhaps be remembered that many of them converted to Islam to realize this dream. Some French Saint-Simonians even became pashas of Egypt, like Soliman Pasha (Süleyman Paşa or Soliman al-Faransi Paša), born Joseph Sève on May 17, 1788 in Lyon, died March 12, 1860 in Cairo . Joseph Sève, alias Soliman Pasha, is the great great grandfather of King Farouk of Egypt. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soliman_Pacha…

Karim Achab

Translated from french