Moroccan UN Envoy Challenges Algeria on Self-Determination and Kabyle Rights

"You are asking for self-determination for the 20,000 people you are holding hostage in the Tindouf camps, but you are denying it to a people of 12 million inhabitants," retorted the Moroccan diplomat. He reminded the Algerian diplomat that "the Kabyle people have undergone 3 colonizations: Ottoman, then French and now Algerian." Omar Hilale also deplored what he considers the longest occupation in the history of Africa.

"Why does Algeria not allow the Kabyle people to self-determine, to express themselves and to freely choose their destiny, as it claims for the populations of the Tindouf camps," he questioned.