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El Chorouk
09-03-2025
- Politics
- El Chorouk
Morocco Becomes a Den For Every Corrupt Harboring Evil Against Muslims
The Secretary-General of the League of Scholars, Preachers, and Imams of the Sahel, Bezzaz Lakhmissi, denounced Algeria's repeated exposure to provocations and considered that their source is a limited segment of French society that does not represent the French street in general. In the program 'Guest of the International' on Radio Algeria Internationale, on Sunday, Bezzaz said that the colonial discourse issued by the French far-right derives much of its vocabulary from the colonial era, adding that the decisions that the French government is threatening to take will have negative results on its people. The speaker also expressed his astonishment at what the King of Morocco is doing, who has joined hands with the colonizer and is trying in every way to undermine the stability of the region, considering that his practices have nothing to do with Islam, adding that Moroccan society has nothing to do with that, but is rather a prisoner of the Makhzen regime and cannot express its will. Bazzaz regretted the situation of Morocco and its transformation into a den for every corrupt person and all those who harbour evil for the Islamic nation. Nevertheless, the guest on the international radio said that Algeria has a long history of establishing peace in the Sahel region and that, based on its extensive experience, Algeria's efforts to achieve development and combat terrorism in the area cannot be denied. Bazzaz explained that Algeria is leading inter-regional development models in the African Sahel that deserve praise, adding that 'the league appreciates the efforts made by President Abdelmadjid Tebboune in the region to establish peace and achieve development through many projects in which the Sahel countries have participated.' In the same context, he stressed that the League of Scholars, Preachers, and Imams of the Sahel Countries has benefited greatly from Algeria's long record of struggle in achieving peace and its doctrine based on dialogue is trying to transfer this to the rest of the countries. Bazzaz gave the example of the state of Chad, which asked the league to focus the workshop on turning the page on internal differences centred around the Algerian experience and what it can offer to societies of the region.
El Chorouk
11-02-2025
- Politics
- El Chorouk
Abdelmadjid Zaalani: France Must Lift the Secrecy of Nuclear Tests in Algeria
Algeria must make more efforts to lift its demands and hold France accountable, under the report prepared by three rapporteurs of the United Nations Human Rights Council addressed to the French government in a 14-page letter in September 2024, Professor Abdelmadjid Zaalani, President of the National Council for Human Rights said. The letter demanded that the French government expedite the delivery of maps and declassify all the nuclear tests and explosions that took place in the Algerian Sahara in the 1960s, Zaalani added. During an interview, on Tuesday, on the 'Guest of the International' program of Algeria's International Radio, on the anniversary of these nuclear explosions, Zaalani explained that the most dangerous thing about this case is that the colonial authorities used Algerians, as if they were rats, during these experiments, which included many prisoners who were transferred from a prison in the city of Sidi Bel Abbès (western Algeria), which proves the falsity of the French claims that they took place in a barren and uninhabited desert. The Algerian International Radio guest revealed that France has not yet responded to the content of this letter despite the great insistence of the UN Human Rights Council, which called on France to acknowledge responsibility and apologize for these tests and explosions. Over the past decades, these experiments and explosions have caused severe damage to humans and the environment and extended their effects to the countries of West Africa and the Mediterranean Basin. The nuclear dust has even reached some areas in Spain. The chairman of the Human Rights National Council confirmed that 'the report addressed to France included demands for the necessity of lifting military secrecy about the locations of these explosions and revealing all the areas covered by these tests, considering them crimes against humanity and taking the initiative to compensate those affected, under the 2021 law amending the 'Morin' law of 2010 to facilitate and expand the conditions for compensation for thousands of affected people.' He added that 'there is an appeal from the UN Human Rights Council to France to initiate a long-term plan to clear these nuclear sites of radiation to ensure a clean environment in the Algerian desert by transferring the advanced technology it possesses and that of the other major nuclear powers.' Pr Zaalani stressed that Algeria must expand the discussion on this issue with the French side within the framework of memory based on the report prepared by the UN Human Rights Council, even though the circumstances are not favourable at this stage given the escalation carried out by the far right in France against Algeria, which is primarily responsible politically and historically for these explosions during the colonial period. Zaalani concluded that 'Algeria can exploit its current term as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council and the Human Rights Council to raise this issue again before the end of this term on December 31, and there are other mechanisms that can be resorted to within the framework of international law, including the International Criminal Court and the European Court of Justice.'
