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please please. no one expected this algerian revolt in the streets known here as iraq but it swept the country from iran to algiers from on about to thomas say like a giant block party. police repression threats of chaos political pressure. for a tarion military regime in power for more than half a century since algerian independence tried everything but nothing could suppress the peaceful iraq movement. led them and their much a year of demonstrations i never would have imagined things would go this far i am sick now we don't know where this is all going you know so we know we have to challenge them. goodness i know they. did all my life but they've always sat up in their ivory

towers they don't know what. i. like don't we don't want to give up we want to live in step with modern times despite our belief i can climb or rather that no matter what he's believing. player. playing. play. i. please. feb 22nd 2019 tens of thousands defied a long standing ban on protests in the capital to oppose president. his decision to

run for office yet again. across the country algerians took to the streets to say no to a potential 5th term. lenders we didn't really understand what was happening on february 22nd when i visited guy was on call that night then i came home and went to bed. i had heard rumors about a demonstration but i didn't believe it like everyone else i was a bit disheartened and i thought we were powerless and there was no way out i may have but then around 2 or 3 in the afternoon my mother broke me up and said there demonstrating people are demonstrating sonia and the children locked that's exactly what it came through every 20 seconds meant to me. an awakening. isn't this event you are in 20 seconds will stand my mind forever. it's a great memory

a huge amount of emotional. just the next because i will never be able to describe how i felt at that moment it was a redemption. i. live under several years ago i headed out that day with very dim hopes that i thought there'd be maybe 50 or a 100 of us and we'd all get arrested. only if you love. i gave a friend some money and said take that and if i get arrested try to bribe a police officer to let me go i can't stay locked up. you to make his own needles i was sitting with friends in a cafe and we were following the he robbed on social media. people across the country were sharing it a true then we saw a live stream of something big happening in to c o's 2 and if so we went there and

joined in a lot of people were there and more kept coming i thought it was huge how did you feel it was great that. the crowd was made up of every section of society also classes men and women for the 1st time we were seeing algerians and had different life i. was was. wanted to use for the 1st time we all had a common goal before christmas i was was. i. was born and then we were just getting by now we had the prospect of a few. come on. we're fed out we've had enough.

we want our children to live in a prosperous algeria a developed algeria. they've robbed us of everything they've broken everything. look what they've done to algiers look how devastated and slow we just want our algeria back and see. the was obviously oh my god i saw the money i had to live with this revolution and abled everyone to reappropriate their country to reappropriate algeria we realize it belongs to us all and after i. i was i.

was. i was the only one they marched in against a 5th term it was amazing because most people in on our apolitical they don't give a damn to me as one i thank. only names and it will clear the most self-aware generation of algerians to come along since the war for independence. and where stubborn. i. thank the algerians won independence in 1962 after a long war against colonial france the algerians over their freedom to the national liberation front or f.l.n. . as of 2019 the f.l.n. had been in power for 57 years. an oppressive regime systematically plundering the

country's wealth resources and heritage the algerian people gradually lost faith in the marcos he sends its independence algeria has suffered a number of tragedies in the 1990 s. the government fought a brutal civil war against a radical islamist insurgency government forces eventually won but not before as many as 200000 civilians had been killed the black decade as it is called hans algerians today unless it gives you a live picture but i associate the war with an experience that turned my whole life upside down to that moment to call my life probably would have been very different if they hadn't murdered my father shown of it but i said. in 1996 when honey a was 3 years old terrorists shot her father on the street in the casbah way as a former policeman he was a prime target in those dark years. ago

but i'm not my father reminds me why i'm here. so for them books no matter what happened you have to keep fighting and keep living. the city i know mickey medieval he was a man who loved life and lived as he saw fit he did honest with me of what he was a man who stood up for single women too so he was everything terrorists hated. mugsy no more says i'm 26. i was born when the terrorism reached its zenith and i grew up under go to flee go to. he's the only president i've ever known it was

a reign based on terror he justified his being there by having brought peace he said i'm the man of peace and if i go terrorism will return a critical reason. after being sworn in as the new president in 1909 beautifully kept his promise to bring the conflict to an end. a painful national reconciliation and provided amnesty to insurgents who handed in their weapons. beautifully get completed for terms keeping an iron grip on the country even after suffering a stroke in 2013 that left him too fragile to campaign his legacy consisted of voting fraud and corruption. other both these joint lives roots of which had 1st it was great our savior had come visit the country was at peace and we could move around and travel we can finally breathe that's how the 1st years were all streets

city government projects began popping up everywhere and we thought great who cares if he has another term. after that it was just dec nation and week rational isn't just. then it was announced that 81 year old abdelaziz bouteflika would seek a 5th term with the elections scheduled for april 29000 the head of the f.l.n. launch to the head of states campaign with a painting of him. for many algerians this was the last straw. i. i. i. i i. and that she's ok let me ask you now for

we put up with poverty and corruption shores of may but we were interfered to be mocked to be pushing. the comment it was really degrading for our president to be campaigning for 1st time in that situation after 20 years they've been as we didn't know any other leader that cuckoos saw their corruption had reached its climax and the government was deteriorating i feel there was a complete void and we were afraid of having both of these going either. thanks. i should say i must say i'm just 28 years i feel tired drained irritated and i feel more like 45 you have to fight so hard to meet your basic needs. you have to justify yourself all the time.

if you want to have a drink you have to hide it it's. can't live with someone without getting married. this country damages you would want it wastes your time and energy angeles only now it suppresses you when it drains you if you didn't he thought you feel like you're just neander him till you die i'm still just a couple but i was going to watch this is that you get so desperate all you have left is hope that's your shows keep it to see the only thing keeping you going is hope for something different simple enough in a dungeon dockside that we've all experienced the dark side with its massacres corruption poverty misery and dirty ness we know how to live with it and survive

feel about it how about we try a new way we didn't have much left to lose just ourselves but with this revolution we found ourselves again we found out who we really are michele field which will fail not what we feel need to have a lot. of the. usual stream of what most people follow what's happening it used to be just retired people in cafes in the lead activities here and there people but now everyone is getting political it's wonderful so someone.

how's it going through now that you i'm good i'll be listening. to suggest that. this is a letter to the president. mr president i don't want to be offensive but when did you last talk to your grandkids where were your eloquent speeches you held like heroes when did algeria my love become a 0 and how about my brothers crossing the see if they've gone through hell but you just don't want to see you can do anything but your system is corrupt your legislators are against you you don't care about the youth. he said that's not an insult it's just the truth. in this violence because it's why i have to write this in silence says you know.

i don't think the problem is the person sitting on the throne. throne itself. it's more what this man represents. he stands for an entire ecosystems. he's achieved such media presence that he's seen as a saint but he's just an effigy. 1234 and someone else will come but the represent the same system. will present a new system. exactly. what is the problem. it's much deeper and more complicated. it's not about swapping one residence for another single it's about morals.

so i think one kid the 25 it's quite hard to be a woman in this world if you with staring and many little aggressions on here observe more closely than men. want list latest slip up on the whole society judges us much more than they do a man we are cut less slack and. there's actually more culturally and in society women have a much harder time claiming their rightful place of family and it is why there are often attacked and 2nd guessed critics no matter in what millions from young temple to means you know whether you're a member of the world of the so-called democrats or you move in a more conservative sphere that don't exist that women are always under more pressure than men you could definitely take the family code for instance it only applies to us who could not find the family code states that women always have to subjugate themselves on what they can't marry without

a man's permission if we are watched our entire lives. if. i. was. i i. i i. i was. i was. bored. bored. bored. bored. bored.

like sonia many women took to the streets as part of the here rock movement all indeed algerian women have taken part in all the protest movements and wars in the country and with this popular uprising some women feel they've been able to carve out a new place for themselves in society and they just need to get used to be go home or here places in the kitchen or. you shouldn't be a mystery with the man should i and i found the now to be at the point when it was normal for us to be outside this is a huge step forward. and it's in the notion men in the past weeks the men even called on the women to join the margin is because they were needed in the mission do you know women really play a central role in this revolution. now men are learning to listen to women a woman can talk a lot paula they finally understand women have ideas women can talk about politics

and things that are important to everyone including men do you take upon indifference he quits grades and remember his work is just like. i want to find some then i have women as opinion leaders with many followers on social media to have people listen when they talk like what they say they found the same things that these women they stand for opinions political movements ideas it's a good thing and a big step forward there's our number one. peace time plus women have started to take their place to both pledge citizens because that's only like any other algerian that's why we are all citizens now you know rather we're learning to be citizens minded and that's quite remarkable in itself.

to be sure they were absent all citizens now we've decided to demand our citizenship back with a simple as that of his son because. he can muster pretty brisk i was. most by how humorous the slogan is worth i don't smoke. i live near the 1st one was from a young woman whose sign said you don't even have the support of my bra.

i. i. i was i. taken back the streets before me i saw young and old whole families marching on the people were able to speak more freely again for algeria it was astounding that were like the north korea of africa was there was nothing i was johnny been much money event that really made an impression on me apart announcing. we were marching and we were surrounded by a small nick fundamentalists i'm just now stood together yelling the same slogans

with the same goal of him then logic to. the arrow united the people against the traders the algerian people we are all united the people against the traitor the okemos i never got any nasty looks and wasn't a curse stabbed to me this could i wondered if we could ever have imagined it or cared to be in this situation one day to let those in stressful time was. still a lot of talk taught us to take an interest in each other people from care about to be less then to build us care about shall we it's remarkable. thank us. play

thank us. but the candidacy for a 5th term woke up the youth after over a month of protests he stepped down as president. in algiers ecstatic crowds celebrated booed of leaders ouster and demanded total systemic change thank. you for example there's a lot toppled one of the strongest dictatorships in africa and he has got a look at like there was a dictator to fix and guy out along with millions of others made him feel so small that we threw him out he immediately the humiliation he suffered was worse than any

humiliation. play up. played . the lottery the hit i can eat but i don't see that here rock as a revolution it is yet to alter the paradigm so a shake the very core of the algae. he insisted it was only rude what you drew was . the namely the military's i agree on our politics sure you want to put it after a flick a step down the cracks in our democracy appeared and we saw who really was in

charge of the military. general ahmed. head of the algerian army a staunch supporter of beautifully nonetheless urged him to resign then took over the role of algeria strongman himself a self-styled defender of the nation the law held power until the end of 2019 when he died at age 79. i thought he would put our future was put in office by the military former president was a soldier boom agency. and d.n. was a soldier too. said to shirley to tell they were all from the military. that is to stop. while still alive some lawyer trying to appease the demonstrators by throwing beautifully because cronies in prison. the tactic failed the general was still seen as

a member of the former president's clan as the head of the army was the face of the very algerian system the people wanted to overthrow the general tried other methods to break the back of the iraq movement he made it illegal for demonstrators to wave the berber flag an important symbol for algeria's indigenous ethnic minority the people. the regime hoped this would divide algerians instead the flag became a mark of solidarity. i think the police arrested dozens of young people on charges of conspiracy against the national unity for flag waving government repression grew increasingly intense but the beautifully good generation had lost its fear. to. look at the fall from 2 in the afternoon to 5 pm the police are usually quite peaceful they said it's been that way for

a year now and you go out in the morning and you get rounded up by the cops ok then they tear gas you asked are 5. i. i i i i i i i. i wouldn't go so far as to call the current situation a dictatorship but it's a totalitarian regime that. does just them a crook commit on national and i would call it a mafia like this isn't

a cool there is underhanded scheming and corruption and they act like a gang. of travel cast but i wanted to become a lawyer in order to be an activist passports because the most effective activists are lawyers because that's the most of it enables you to defend people to stand up for justice to understand what people are subjected to through conditional shit allows you to express yourself at the limits of capacity to experiment. with multiples even though see i primarily deal with political cases and in prison as you know and i see incredible things in. there for that and quite. a force can when i delve into a case on my desk i realize the justice system is rotten to the core there is no free decision making. to do this you're on the simplest cases you can see there has

been intervention from a higher level to reach a certain kurdish than you know for do you feel closer. some of us. did it to sophia baba see was one of the people abducted prior to the presidential elections in december. that months he had been at

a nighttime demonstration supposedly waving a flag a berber or bill flag all said that's why he was hunted down and the rest it's officially but it was just an excuse to arrest him which journal it out it to one week while a lot of young people have been arrested for no reason charged with conspiracy against the national unity that's why he was abducted from his home not people when i visited him in prison with my 2 colleagues he looked wretched. we could see signs of torture he had undergone all these all there were even by mach's how their dogs and it's a lot more on top of the story about what he had been through it was really a terrible act of truculence trip to. get a man of the house with the most sure. we're going to visit him always it's the 1st time for me seeing him since he got out of prison by an influx of support from the likes of what the business wanted is on.

his own here because each of you they brought me a stack of printouts it was all my facebook posts which meant they had been observing me for a while. then the police inspector came and. i think it was the inspector he came in but didn't talk to me he just looked at me then punched me in the eye. so then he pushed me. i asked why are you hitting me he said you deserve to

die we shouldn't let you live i should slit your throat. they grabbed me while i was a bit out of it and put my fingerprints under the report. i didn't do it myself. in fact i had said i wouldn't do so without seeing my lawyer. so they did everything they could to get me in prison because school did you think they'd ever let you go . to be honest no. it was. ok because if. i was lying in prison and heard a knock on the door someone said see you can go. ok i was completely astounded. if one is a decision defending one's convictions is a noble cause and most importantly it gives you pride in this subject my message to the rest of the world is easy to defend your ideas don't give up. do

you have to fight for your convictions without fear or hesitation the school. the most important thing is to do no harm. to. the regime knows it's illegitimate she did not in order to create a list of a sea of sorts they must constantly feel superior like they have the power to suppress or by people. this way of looking down on the people helps compensate for their lack of legitimacy. i was. i was. there. i. was.

i was the was. was. i i was. and december 21900. 5 candidates the former owner was 74 year. old i'm down to boone who under buddha flicka had been a minister multiple times and even briefly served as prime minister. at the time of the election to boon son was in jail on cocaine charges i

thus the regime responded to the heroic movement's demand for change with more of the same. i. but the people in the streets stood their ground saying the election was fraudulent they called for a boycott the new president took office nonetheless i was i. i was i was

from the moment your bullshit i personally thought there'd be a real jolt hoping us to have a calm the traumas of our policy i fully i mean but i gradually noticed that wasn't the case but i personally don't think it will happen anymore you know i've lost faith from what i see back where we started. the whole point of the luxury of algeria will change but not yet i have less and less faith to be honest unfortunately i'm talking about an event that i've yet to experience and i don't think i will. our young people in algeria happy. the question is an important one. half of the country's 40000000 residents are under 30. the popular uprising awoke real hope. many young people are no longer trying to leave the country at all costs. but other

young people continue to flee attempting to reach europe in makeshift rafts. they are driven by oppressive corruption cronyism and nepotism as well as a 26 percent unemployment rate among 16 to 24 year olds. mehdi an unemployed construction engineer is struggling as well. as richard shows i went to study in france and spent 2 years there in france i realized how little i knew about my own country and at the same time i realized how much i loved it i spent time with moroccans tunisians and french people and they all knew algeria better than i did some of them mention the roman ruins i didn't know there were roman religions and algeria that was

a slap on the base. closures she additionally i wanted to get a business going to create jobs to put my bit of know how to use to invest and live here but everything has fallen apart since i returned in 2014 it's not the same algeria anymore i barely recognize it. i can't imagine growing old and algeria anymore and it's sad i tried everything to come back and make it here but i failed i don't want to wither away here that's the word that comes to mind and it's sad but what should i say that's just how it is. city more to do you want it was my dream to live in algeria build my house here fight for my convictions here spend time in the mountains of kabila. soumik but the lack of freedom makes me want to leave the country to normal to. scream world

because i can't imagine raising children it out cheerio. i want them to grow up in a land where they feel free and can live out their dreams with their joyous a useful view where they can have their fantasies they can express their convictions freely scrimmaged they should be able to move freely through the world secondly you don't know it's sad isn't it because he's very sad. and what your boss wants i used to consider leaving. it was a viable option for me. but if i manage to live here the way i want to drill i don't need to leave you have one that i you know i'm a doctor and i want to help my fellow citizens so i'm still optimistic too full of it seems. of course some will say i'm naive. in hearing that a lot lately. but i have faith in us if.

only 5 love also but. i'll say it again when we're fighting for life that will be life. this is a new era in the history of algeria but the result of i'd like to believe it's the nicest and most important and. were. are a determined generation we know what we want and we won't give up of a to have i should have yeah i've been addicted to their faces become our drug. elna truth we have all the time we need. on that song we have the time energy the willpower and the rage we have everything we need. to. look.

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