The head of the World Amazigh Community corresponds with the Mauritanian president regarding the “genocide” of the Tuareg
The President of the World Amazigh Community, Rachid Rakha, sent a letter to Mohamed Ould Sheikh Ghazouani, President of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania and the current President of the African Union, in order to intervene to stop the genocide against the Tuareg Amazighs in Azawad.
Rakha drew the attention of the Mauritanian president to “a sensitive issue related to the systematic killing of the indigenous people in northern Mali, specifically the Tuareg and Moors in the Azawad region, by the Malian Armed Forces (Fama), with brutal and criminal support from the Russian mercenary militias of the “Wagner” group, which “Do not hesitate to carry out systematic ethnic cleansing operations against the civilian population in Azawad, this coastal desert region in the heart of our African continent.”
Below is the full text of the message:
Mr. Mohamed Ould Sheikh Al-Ghazouani
President of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania
And the current president of the African Union
?Topic: Can the African Union unite to stop the genocide against the Tuareg and Moors in Azawad
Mr president,
We would first like to express to you, albeit after a slight delay, our warmest congratulations on your election as a Mori Berber to the presidency of the African Union for this year 2024/2974. We would also like to congratulate the African Union on the appointment of Mr. Adama Dieng as the Union’s first Special Envoy for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities, to combat the ideology of hatred and prevent genocide on the African continent, on the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsis in Rwanda.
We would like to present before your attention a sensitive issue related to the systematic killing of the indigenous people in northern Mali, specifically the Tuareg and Moors in the Azawad region, by the Malian Armed Forces (Fama), with brutal and criminal support from the Russian mercenary militias of the “Wagner” group, which does not hesitate to About carrying out systematic ethnic cleansing operations against the civilian population in Azawad, this coastal desert region in the heart of our African continent.
It is truly intolerable that the 54 member states of the African Union, as well as the international media and public opinion, continue to remain silent about this genocide. This deafening silence reveals the extent of our African countries' complicity in this hideous ethnic cleansing.
We draw your attention, by the way, to the fact that our non-governmental organization, the Amazigh World Assembly, has taken the initiative to inform the Presidents Mr. Emmanuel Macron [1], Mr. Vladimir Putin [2], Mr. Abdelhamid Dabaiba, Head of the Government of National Unity of Libya, and the Ministers of Foreign Affairs Messrs. Nasser Bourita for Morocco, Mr. Abdallah Diop for Mali, Mr. Sameh Shoukry for Egypt, Mr. Nabil Ammar for Tunisia, Mr. Mohamed Salem Ould Marzouk for your country, Ms. Aissata Tal Sall for Senegal, and Ms. Olivia Ragnagnoende Rwamba, for Burkina Faso [3 ], the European Union [4] and the Ambassador of the United States of America to Morocco. The latter kindly took our call seriously and responded to us by sending His Excellency one of his envoys to meet with us last December 19, and we presented to him some reports completed by various non-governmental organizations interested in human rights [5] about this crime against humanity, which was reported. It was completely ignored due to the armed conflicts in both Ukraine and Gaza that overshadowed it.
Mr. President,
If Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have witnessed various coups, it is mainly due to their inability to deal with the insecurity caused by jihadist terrorist groups! So the basic question that we pretend to ignore is: Who sponsors and stands behind these terrorist groups? Note that this vast arid region of the Sahara and Sahel was once a haven of peace, where various ethnic groups lived in harmony and respect, especially the Tuareg, Moors, Fulani, Dogon, Tubu, and Songhai. .
Within our non-governmental organization, the Amazigh World Assembly, we have always had a firm conviction that Algerian military intelligence is responsible, especially through the creation of the Salafist group Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, which is attested to by the study conducted by François Guise and Salima Mellah [ 6], which is the organization currently led by the famous Tuareg Iyad Ag Ghali, leader of Ansar Dine (the organization that chose a new name, ? “Group for the Support of Islam and Muslims” GSIM). Which prompts us to ask this important question: Why
As a result, these horrific and criminal Algerian agencies (either the DRS or the General Directorate of Documentation and External Security), directly responsible for all the murders committed - and still being committed - have their main geostrategic goal to destabilize the Sahel countries for three purposes:
First, by turning the Sahel region into a powder keg, they prevent anyone from exploring for hydrocarbons and exploiting underground wealth, because of their morbid fear that neighboring countries, such as Mali or Niger, will be able to exploit the same oil pockets and pump the gas reserves that the south abounds with.
Secondly, their fear that the Malian Tuareg will succeed in benefiting from the status of regional political autonomy, and that this will inspire the Algerian Tuareg to demand the same status as their brothers in Mali!
Third, to economically weaken these coastal countries, which are in a state of virtual isolation, in order to maintain their “hegemony as an alleged superpower”! Within this area of the coast. As a reminder, their famous bloodthirsty princes within Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, such as Mokhtar Belmokhtar and Abdelmalek Droukdel, succeeded in expelling the Paris-Dakar Rally from Africa to South !America, thus depriving the indigenous population of huge financial gains and their tourism potential
We believe that it is in everyone's interest to return, in all seriousness, to the realistic proposal made by Mr. Romano Prodi, former President of the European Commission and Special Envoy of the United Nations Secretary-General for the Sahel from 2012 to 2014. In his response to a question by John Africa about the viability of an Azawadian state for him ? He answered wisely, saying: “I have hope that an acceptable agreement will be reached between Bamako and the armed groups. Because I consider that without reaching an agreement with the North, there will never be peace in Mali” [7].
This was the solution agreed upon by the parties to the financial dispute in Ouagadougou, on December 4, 2012, at the initiative of the former President of Burkina Faso, Blaise Compaore, with the support of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), where the government and the party representing the National Movement for the Liberation of... Azawad (MNLA), affirmed the “rejection of terrorism” and respect for territorial integrity, and agreed on “the necessity of establishing a framework for dialogue in order to stop hostilities” as the MNLA abandons the demand for the independence of the north in exchange for guarantees of “broad autonomy”, which was provided by Tuareg leader Bilal Ag Sharif again on April 30 [8], similar to the Moroccan autonomy proposal that was presented in 2007 to the UN Security Council to resolve the artificial conflict over the Moroccan Sahara.
Finally, as the great Amazigh King Masinissa raised the slogan, “Africa for the Africans,” two thousand years ago, all African countries are called upon, more than ever, to unite their efforts and use all their diplomatic influence to achieve peace, combat the scourge of jihadist terrorism, and stop civil wars.
To achieve this, it will be necessary:
- First, stop rolling out the red carpet in front of government officials in countries that encourage Islamist terrorism, led by Algeria, and cut all diplomatic and economic relations with them.
Secondly, a call from the Russian Federation to withdraw its “Wagner” mercenary militias from Africa, especially from Mali and Libya. It is unacceptable for some of our African countries, which wish to liberate themselves from the bondage of French neo-colonialism, to fall into the grip of a new colonialism worse than the first. And that through the resources extracted from the golden wealth of the indigenous people of Azawad, we are financing their extermination!
- Third, complicity in a new process of ethnic cleansing must be avoided. In this context, the Malian military leaders and the Tuareg and Moorish fighters in Azawad must be urgently persuaded to sit around the dialogue table and agree on the formation of a federal territorial system, which will constitute the best political option to save Mali and the Sahel region.
While we thank you very much for all the efforts you are making and the capabilities you are harnessing to rescue and provide support and humanitarian aid to hundreds of thousands of refugees and displaced Azawadians, who are finding refuge within your lands, including the Mbira camp, please accept, Mr. President, our fraternal greetings.
Rashid Rakha
President of the World Amazigh Assembly