KABYLIA (SIWEL) — Thoughts on this February 15th go to Nabila Djahnine, a feminist activist and Kabyle architect, assassinated by Algerian Islamists on February 15, 1995, in Tizi Wezzu. She was only 30 years old.
It has been exactly thirty years since the disappearance of this feminist activist who stood for all just causes. She was cowardly murdered by Islamist hordes, “with five shots fired at point-blank range from a sawed-off shotgun,” according to the testimony of one of her friends.
Nabila Djahnine, born in Vgayet, was a trained architect who graduated from the Institute of Architecture at the University of Tizi Wezzu. She presided over the association “Tiɣri n tmeṭut” (Cry of Women), an organization that sought to free women from the prison in which the Algerian state’s family code had confined them. She was also an activist in the Berber Cultural Movement (MCB).
Since 1999, the “amnesty law” included in the “Charter for Peace and National Reconciliation”, passed under Bouteflika, has granted impunity to the terrorists of the “Black Decade” under the so-called “civil concord” between the Islamists and their enablers, at the expense of their shared victims.
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