CHARTER OF THE MAK

FOR THE RIGHTS OF THE KABYLIAN PEOPLE AND KABYLIA

- 1. The Kabylian people has the right to get his official recognition by Algeria.

- 2. Kabylia has the right to have acknowledged administrative frontiers in conformity with its sociolinguistic reality extending, in the North, from Tizi-Nat-Aïcha in the West to Ziama Mansouriah in the East, and Djaafra in the South. She adjudges unacceptable the attachment of its territories to bordering entities where hundreds of thousand Kabylians are reduced into a minority and isolated from their fellow citizens (Jijel, Sétif, Bordj-Bou-Arreridj and Boumerdes). The litigious big urban centers will be separated by a referendum (Sétif, Bordj-Bou-Arreridj and Boumerdes).

- 3. Kabylia has the right to have a large autonomy statute which confers her full powers in ALL fields except national defense, issuance of money and, at least extant, foreign affairs.

- 4. Kabylia has the right to be a Kabylian Regional Republic, Democratic, Social and Secular.

- 5. Kabylia has the right to have her own institutions including its parliament and its government.

- 6. Kabylia has the right to have Kabylian as her official language.

- 7. Kabylia has the right to have her flag and her coat of arms.

- 8. Kabylia has the right to have her own school system which uppermost dispenses a teaching in her own language, away from extremism, fanaticism, racism, and gender segregation; a school system tied to science and openness on the world, technology and to the respect of the fundamental values of humanity.

- 9. Kabylia has the right to have her own civil security (police, forest-rangers, firemen/women, ports surveillance, airports, and sensitive economic sites).

- 10. Kabylia has the right to have her own media system (television channels, radios, press, communications, and other means known or coming).

- 11. Kabylia has the right to ensure the management of her own sustainable development, land-tenure system, urban landscaping, transport, and local taxation.

- 12. Kabylia has the right to have her quota of national oil (petroleum and gas) annuity proportionally to the number of her inhabitants in relation with the entire Algerian country.

- 13. Kabylian people has the right to be accepted as a nation within Algeria.

- 14. Kabylian has the right to take away her women and girls from the wicked and slanderous Algerian family code and establish real equal rights between women and men.

- 15. Kabylian people has the right to fight peacefully to fulfil this charter.
Kabylia has to accomplish all the duties contained in the PAK (Project for the Autonomy of Kabylia) published on April 16th, 2003.

Translated by Izemrasen
Projet d’autonomie de la Kabylie (PAK)
Kabylia autonomy project (KAP)