RABAT - missing just now to February 20, the day all over the country have announced protests against the monarchy and absolutism to democracy. The Moroccan society begins to move. Thursday, February 17 organizations for the protection of human rights (fourteen in total), led by the Truth and Justice Forum and the Moroccan Association of Human Rights (AMDH) have called a press conference to publicly support groups of young people who have promoted the initiative through the Internet. "We share the claims of the organizers and ask: a constitutional reform that makes the people the only source of legitimacy and sovereignty, the establishment of a democratic parliamentary system, based on a true separation of powers, respect for civil liberties and individual and the end of censorship, the improvement of social and economic conditions to return dignity to the Moroccan people ", this sums up the press release issued by the coordination meeting, held yesterday afternoon in the local dell'AMDH.
"The people wants to change "
The conference room is full of people. In addition to dozens of activists, sympathizers and curious, a forest of cameras and microphones occupies the first rows of the stalls. They are the foreign newspapers and broadcasters, media or Moroccan almost no trace. On stage, old and young generation of activists sit next to each other. There are Khadija Ryad, Abdelilah Benabdesslam and Abdelhamid Amine, the guests of the kingdom's prisons in the eighties and now the Democratic strongholds of resistance in the country (and vertices of the same AMDH). Next to them Oussama Khalifa, the first young to have widespread appeal on YouTube in support of the Movement February 20th, makes the gesture of victory with mano. “Sono un semplice essere umano che crede nella democrazia e nella possibilità di una vita dignitosa per tutti i miei compatrioti”, esordisce la diciannovenne Tahani, portavoce del movimento. Corporatura minuta e riccioli neri che sfiorano le spalle, Tahani sembra avere le idee chiare nonostante la giovane età: “la nostra protesta ha come obiettivo immediato la dissoluzione del governo e del parlamento in carica, poiché strumenti non rappresentativi del popolo marocchino e nocivi ai suoi stessi interessi. Il passo successivo sarà la convocazione di un’assemblea costituente, per la redazione di una nuova costituzione finalmente democratica e garante dei diritti e delle libertà ancora oggi negate nel paese. Nel frattempo, a provisional government composed of personalities from civil society, trade unions and political parties of recognized transparency, ensure the continuity of executive activities. " The young activist then speaks of the upcoming need for social reform "so that the entire population and not only the elite can enjoy a quality health and education systems." Questioned on what will be the form of state that the Movement February 20th to imagine the future of Morocco, Tahani not off balance, "the form of State which will be released by the Constituent Assembly does not concern us now, will be monarchical or republican, if it ensures freedom and democracy ".
Bouchua Mehdi, a student at the University Cadi Ayyad of Marrakech, returns to the fate to be reserved for Mohammed VI: "the movement, made up of different groups of young people appeared on Facebook, does not have a unified position on the matter. The claims to offer more shared a parliamentary monarchy modeled on English or English, but others openly call the transition to a Republican. In any case, the end of the monarchy monopoly on political and economic life of the country is a priority for everyone. The king should not govern, who commands must be chosen by the people in absolute freedom. " Even Mehdi, twenty-three years, is part of the Movement February 20, launch da alcuni suoi coetanei attraverso il social network durante i primi giorni della rivolta egiziana. “Il gruppo più numeroso si chiama «Il popolo vuole il cambiamento» e oggi conta quasi 14 mila aderenti. In totale siamo più di 20 mila su Facebook, compresi gli infiltrati che si iscrivono per insultarci”. Il giovane universitario abbandona la sala conferenze e si siede ad uno dei computer messi a disposizione dall’associazione. Sulle pareti della stanza, una sequenza di poster testimoniano l’attività instancabile dell’AMDH, che da oltre trent’anni si batte per la difesa dei diritti e delle libertà in Marocco. Accanto ad una foto di Ben Barka, oppositore del regime assassinato dai sicari di Hassan II nel 1965, a map of Palestine remembers the sixtieth anniversary of the Nakba. "They spread montages where the leaders of the movement are portrayed with dozens of bottles of wiskhy. We have described how the hippie drug addicts, non-Muslim enemies of the country with the Polisario who plot to sow chaos in the country, "says Mehdi pointing to the screen. Displkay on the list of contributions, including a derogatory comment Meryam signed (the accounts are created under a pseudonym): "You're only godchildren Algeria and Mohammed Abdelaziz (the head of the Polisario Front, ed).
network in addition to the attack by hackers and intelligence, there are various forms of repression suffered by members of the Movement February 20 in recent days. Threats, stalking, phones tapped, cops under house round the clock. Not to mention the smear campaign orchestrated by the national press, more and more blatantly in the service of authority. For example, Rachid Nini, editor of the daily Al Massai arabofono (the most widely read in the country, ed), did not hesitate to call these young people "pawns maneuvered from Spain to endanger the safety and stability of the state". The latest news, broadcast live during the conference is two adolescents of fifteen and seventeen years arrested in the morning while they were in Kenitra distributing leaflets in support of the event (they were released after a few hours, ed.) "Only the online journal of Ali Anouzla Taoufiq Bouachrine and the columns of Akhbar al Youm we have defended, denouncing the propaganda organs of the regime," said the curly-haired twenty-three kefya straightening her around the neck.
Accessions multiply
The human rights groups are not the only organizations to have publicly responded to the call for democracy and dignity "launched by young Moroccans. The first to take sides in favor of the protest was the association islamica Giustizia e Carità, da sempre critica nei confronti della monarchia, e per questo non riconosciuta dal regime. Il gruppo di shaykh Yassine, in un comunicato pubblicato ad inizio febbraio sul suo sito internet, si felicitava per le manifestazioni in Tunisia ed Egitto, invocando una “svolta democratica urgente” anche in Marocco. “Milioni di marocchini vivono in uno stato di povertà e di privazione. Non è giusto che la ricchezza del paese resti nelle mani di un’esigua minoranza”, si legge nel testo diffuso dall’organizzazione che, secondo una stima effettuata dal politologo Mohamed Darif, arriverebbe a riunire circa 100 mila aderenti.
La denuncia di un sistema autocratico and corrupt and the immediate need for a change seems to have surpassed even the old ideological oppositions and contrasts, gathering the consensus of a representative civil and cross-cutting policy. In addition to the Islamist Justice and Charity, also the parties of the radical left, excluded from parliament, have confirmed their presence in the square Sunday, February 20. Alongside them will be the Berber activists, historical enemies of Marxist-pan-Arabist campuses of Meknes, Fez and Marrakech. "To base the future of Morocco, first of all forget the friction tailings that have divided and weakened in the past," said Mounir Kejji fair voice, militant amazigh the first time and co-founder of the center Tarik Ibn Zyad studies. "The entire galaxy has accepted the invitation of the Berber movement, by the Amazigh World Congress in Tamaynout to the regional associations of the Souss and the Rif," said Mounir.
Among the many signatures collected just one, came in the final hours, the promoters of perplexing. That of PAM (Party of the authenticity and modernity), a political body of the monarchy created two years ago by Fouad Ali El Himma, friend and adviser to Mohammed VI. "WFP said on its website that supports the events and supports the initiation of reforms. What reforms, of course, is not specified .. "says sarcastically Samira, dell'AMDH one of the main contacts, which then adds, "at the beginning they tried to sabotage the meeting of 20 February by any means. Believed they could deter young people from their purpose. They even created a Facebook group called "I love my king and I do not go Sunday." Now they are just trying to muddy the waters, playing dirty as usual. "
At the end of the conference was circulated to submit a new press, this time written by independent journalists, and signed by the pens of the most reputable and irreverent category, not surprisingly the most censored. "Congratulate the people of Egypt and Tunisia for their victory against the dictatorship el'autocrazia, particularly our colleagues who are rediscovering the freedom of speech, press and expression, and remember that the repression of these freedoms are fundamental to democracy is still on the agenda the agenda of the Moroccan regime, "reads the text signed , among others, Aboubakr Jamai, Ali Lmrabet, Ali Amar, Driss Ksikes and Aziz El Yaakoubi, which in the last lines urged the authorities not to interfere "with the information work of Moroccan and foreign journalists who try to follow the events announced for Sunday, February 20. " A legitimate concern, according to the Organisation responsible for freedom of information and expression Benddine Ali, "Given that some foreign TV stations, including Al Jazeera , have already been denied press accreditation to film the events. A decision certainly not reassuring. "
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