(Washington, USA).The Biden administration reaffirmed for the second time in its annual Report 2023 on Country on Human Rights Practices on Algeria that MAK, acronyms for Kabylia Self-determination Movement, is not a terrorist. 

This comes after the Algerian military regime designated it as a terrorist organization in 2021 to free a legal path to quell Kabylia’s self-determination activists by adopting 87 bis article that considered any opponent or dissident to the current regime as a terrorist.

The State department argued in the 2022 Annual Report that its designation as a terrorist organization stems from a “political and not security matter” since MAK-Movement never committed any violence and promoted a peaceful struggle.

Although the US is the first nation in the world to combat terrorism, Algeria seems stubborn to the State department recommendation. Therefore, since 2021, over 500 Kabylians were imprisoned, including 38 who were condemned to death, and Algeria’s authoritarian regime keeps violating on a daily basis human rights in Kabylia.

Now that the time of the Biden administration is over, could the Trump administration go further by implementing sanctions against the Algerian regime as the previous administrations did with Syria, Russia, North Korea, Venezuela to relieve thousands of Kabylians from this unjust arbitrarily suffering?

Here is the report copy: https://www.state.gov/reports/2023-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/algeria/