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Bouteflika Toughens Against Algerian Military With U.S. Help
by Noor Al Deen Al Ouwadi
LONDON (IslamOnline) - A prominent human rights activist accused Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika of asking Arab nations to help defeat his own military.
Ali Yahya Abd Al Noor, president of an Algerian human rights organization said in an interview in Monday's issue of Algeria's "Today" that, "President Abdelaziz Bouteflika asked the Western governments, especially the American government, for their help in keeping the Algerian military away from the authorities until democracy, and the respect of human rights, is attained."
He added that Bouteflika said that those who do not abide by human rights laws should give up their lawmaking positions.
Noor, addressing accusations that Algerian government organizations are committing killings attributed to Islamists, replied, "There are three [types of] armed groups: The Armed Jammaa Al Islamia, armed groups that conduct state terrorism, and there are those groups that operate in the dark."
Victims have testified that: "they have encountered the killers….some of them dress in Afghani clothing, and have beards said to be fake, and others are in military clothing carrying weapons," Noor added.
He also said that, "Although the thing that is certain is that whenever there is talk about a faction in the army, massacres and acts of violence almost always occur."
Attacking Bouteflika's political strategies, Noor offered a plan to find a global political solution to the Algerian crisis after making sure that the political consensus in Algeria was corrupt due to the country's calamity.
"The regime ignored the political solution, the civil consensus from our opinion is the solution, but it does not seem to work…"
Noor also asked for a ceasefire to be issued from the Islamic Front and its two commanding officials, Abbasi Madani and Ali Belhaj.
He added that Ali Belhaj has a prominent role to play in finding a solution for Algeria's crisis, and ending the violence.
Noor warned that Algeria should not endure "another bloody decade."
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