Algerian government to solve appointed municipalities in al-Kbyle area
Algeria, Politics, 7/18/2005

Algerian government decided to desolve the municipal council which was appointed, rather than elected in the Kbyle area (Berbers area) during the local elections for 2002, and to give this area new elections whose date was not set yet.

The Algerian government decided following the elections of October 2002 to appoint municipal council in ten municipalities in Kbyle area after the majority of the citizens boycotted the voting in response to the call by Tanseqeyat al-Oroush.

"Ardeyat al-Qaser" was formed following bloody clashes that lasted for weeks between the Algerian security forces and thousands of ethnic Berber group in Kbyle area while they were protesting the killing of one Berber student called Masinsia Qarmah on April 18, 2001, and the confrontations that resulted in killing more 126 persons.

The announcement for desolving the municipal councils in the provinces of Tezi Ozo, Bajaya, Bumerdas, and al-Bweira comes according to a presidential decree, meeting one of the conditions between the Algerian government and what is called "Tanseqeyat al-Oroush" in Kbyle area in their negotiations on the list of demands known as "Ardeyat al-Qaser"( the playground for the palace).

"Ardeyat al-Qaser" includes demands relating to al-Kbyle area, demands such as pardoning persons sued over acts of violence, and discipline of the national police forces which are viewed as the main reason behind the incident, and approving the Amazigh language by the government as a national but not an official language, as well as the demands to establish democracy and justice all over the Algerian territories.

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