Re: Algeria (in Spanish)

["Johannes Schneider" <Johannes.Schneider@xxxxxxx>]

I fear my knowledge of Spanish is too restricted to get the exact meaning of
the article Jordi posted, but I doubt the FFS can be called a force of the
left capable of organizing a surrection. Actually the FFS prefers to call on
the rulers of imperialism personally to intervene in Algeria:

Full text at:
http://www.algeria-watch.de/farticle/kabylie/appel_ait_ahmed_english.htm

"To the International Press and Media
Hocine Aït-Ahmed Addresses the International Community
Herewith a call dispatched today to:
Mr. Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the UNO
Mrs. Mary Robinson, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Mr. George W. Bush, President of the United States of America
Göran Persson, President of the European Union, Prime Minister of Sweden
Javier Solana Madariaga, Secretary General of the Council of the European
Union
Lord Robertson, Secretary General of NATO, and
Mr. Antoine Gutères, President of Socialists International, Prime minister
of Portugal.
Urgent Call to the International Community and Institutions to prevent
Algeria from sinking into chaos
[...snipped...]
Algiers, the capital, represents a particularly explosive focus of tensions,
with an uncontrollable spreading effect. Only responsible and peaceful
demonstrations can provide an outlet to and reduce, even eliminate these
tensions.
Thus, our party - The Front of the Socialist Forces (FFS) - as well as
numerous actors, lucid and responsible, of the civil society have requested
of the competent high authorities the authorization to allow all these
youth, who are worried about the absence of any perspectives, to freely
express their thirst for peace, social justice, democracy, and liberty. This
peaceful demonstration is due on Thursday, May 3rd in Algiers.
However, it is with anxiety that we see a gigantic military and police
apparatus being put in place, not to ensure order intelligently, but, on the
contrary, to terrorize and discourage, in a first stage, the demonstrators;
then, in a second stage, to repress them in a blood bath which risks being
more frightening and catastrophic than the repression of October 1988.
Therefore, I have the honor to request you take - individually and
collectively - preventive initiatives to block the irreparable, and to
publicly warn the authorities, the military and police commands against the
arbitrary and massive use of weapons of war.
It is time that an end be put to the politics of non-assistance to people in
danger, which has lasted for a decade. And which, by encouraging impunity,
blows on the deadly torment and risks plunging my country in chaos.
With all my respects and high consideration,
The 2nd of May 2001
Hocine Aït-Ahmed
President of the Front of Socialist Forces"

Instead of organising the surrection the FFS is afraid of beeing swept away
by it. That it why they are begging the imperialists to be put in place as
the new government to quell the resistance.

Johannes