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| Algeria protestors disavow al-Qaeda |
| 2013-03-27 |
| [MAGHAREBIA] Algeria's National Committee for Protection of the Rights of the Unemployed (CNDDC) on Sunday (March 24th) disavowed attempts by terrorist and other political entities to exploit their movement. CNDDC front man Tahar Belabes issued the statement after al-Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) announced their support for the demands of southern Algerians who recently staged protests to demand employment. "We as unemployed people do not have anything to do with al-Qaeda or other gangs because our movement is peaceful and denounces violence in principle. We're not responsible for any behaviour or statement made by any group," Belabes said. The committee rejected any political attempts to exploit its popular movement by any political forces for their own goals and ideas. Unemployed people understood these attempts and said from the very beginning that they did not accept any political exploitation of their demands by any party. Movement members expelled some MPs and party leaders who went to Ouargla province, the cradle of protests. The CNDDC said they carried purely social and employment-related demands and that they did not have anything to do with political manoeuvres or the goals of suspicious terrorist groups. Several areas in southern Algeria have recently witnessed protests in which protestors demanded the government honour promises made a few days ago. The youths' protests extended from Ouargla to Laghouat, Ghardaia and other provinces. Meanwhile, ...back at the Esquimeau village Jack was learning how to rub noses with Nootka's wife...... protesters are stressing the peaceful nature of their movement, which aims at creating dynamism and fairness in employment and achieving a stride in development in the south. "The southern young people refuse to believe that a terrorist group would adopt legitimate social demands that young people expressed peacefully," protestor Abed said. "We just don't need their help." "Ours and theirs are not the same methods, and the difference between armed action used by AQIM and the youths' social demands for work and dignity is clear," he added. |
| Posted by:Fred |