Moroccan Berbers want independence
Published by BO18 on - 3/05/2007Ok, this is very strange.
From MEMRI:
In an interview with the liberal Berber website "Tamazgha," Mustapha Berhouchi, president of the TADA umbrella group of Moroccan Berber organizations, said that the Berbers need a state of their own: "In a world where a fanatical Islam is looking to acquire nuclear capabilities, and faced with Europe's hypocritical attitude, the Imazighen (i.e. Berbers), if they want to continue to exist as a people, have no choice but to acquire a state."
In a separate statement, the CNCCOT, a Moroccan organization demanding official status for the Berber language in Morocco, called for a new secular and democratic constitution, guarantees of freedom of expression, and an end to Morocco's membership in the Arab League: "The Moroccan authorities' membership in illusory, phantom organizations like the Arab League is nothing but a waste of time and money… We demand that Morocco withdraw from the Arab League and from all the racist organizations of which it is a member."
They're probably just a splinter-group of something right? I can't imagine a large, umbrella-group to make a statement like this. Especially not in these times.
Does anyone know more?
The statements in French:
TADA Statement
CNCCOT -statement
Anyone who bother to read a bit about moroccan tribes knows that many arab tribes settling among Amazigh ended speaking an amazigh dialect and other amazigh tribes are now arab speaking poeple.
and what about a 3/4 berber like me, maybe i must go to egypt becase my father ancestors came from there 500 years ago?!
again it's all about identity -__-