Amazigh organizations complain to Morocco to the Commission on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
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The Ezrfan Organization and the Akal Coordination for the Defense of the Right of the Residents to Land and Wealth submitted a report to the twelfth session of the Expert Mechanisms for the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, held in the Swiss capital, Geneva, between 15 and 19 July, complaining about “the policy of destroying the indigenous Amazigh sociocultural structure in Morocco.” And the continuation of the “Moroccan state’s policy of escaping forward and
implementing its series.”
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The report considered that Morocco “dispossessed the indigenous population of their lands based on laws imposed by the military method, during the presence of the French occupation in Morocco, through the so-called administrative determination of the forest king or collective conservation, which depends on non-transparent methods.”
Both the Ezrfan Organization and the Akal Coordination for Defending the Right of the Population to Land and Wealth confirmed that the Kingdom of Morocco “depletes natural resources, through excessive exploitation of mineral resources located in the areas of the indigenous population,” noting that this is done “without its consent and without benefiting from its share of these minerals, of gold, silver, and copper.”
The report complained of what it described as “the destruction of the argan tree heritage, which is a symbol of the Amazigh identity,” by “building industrial units that destroy thousands of these endangered trees, and unleashing thousands of camels and livestock owned by valuable people, to graze in them and in front of the eyes of the authorities, who refuse to intervene to enforce the law.” and protection of the rights of indigenous peoples.
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The same source pointed out that the "indigenous people" in Morocco are "marginalized at the social level", through "their areas' lack of adequate health buildings, and even if they exist, they do not have the necessary tools and anti-toxin medicines", which resulted, according to the same source, "the death of People who have been bitten by snakes.”
Social marginalization is paralleled by political marginalization, according to the report submitted to the twelfth session of the Expert Mechanisms for the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, where “local representative institutions were placed under the tutelage of the Ministry of the Interior by the leader, who has excessively strict powers, which constitutes an obstacle to the progress of democracy among the indigenous population.” .
The Ezrfan Organization and the Akal Coordination for the Defense of the Right of the Population to Land and Wealth concluded that all these systematic policies on the part of the Moroccan state, caused “the migration of a significant
proportion of the original population from its regions, towards the major cities of Morocco, in chaotic and illegal ways abroad in search of about better ways of life, which puts them at risk of falling into the arms of extremist and violent ideology,” according to the same report.
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