ALGERIA - May 21 - Berber Demo.Hundreds of thousands of Berbers Berbers, aboriginal Caucasoid peoples of N Africa, called Imazighen in the Tamazight language. They inhabit the lands lying between the Sahara and the Mediterranean Sea and between Egypt and the Atlantic Ocean. march in Tizi Ouzou Tizi Ouzou comes from Berber language Tizi Uzezzu, spelt Tizi Wezzu, translates to View point of the flower, is a major Kabyle town and capital of Tizi Ouzou province, Algeria. , the main Berber-speaking city, to demand the withdrawal of paramilitary par·a·mil·i·tar·y adj. Of, relating to, or being a group of civilians organized in a military fashion, especially to operate in place of or assist regular army troops. n. pl. gendarmes blamed for killing scores of rioters in April and May. The crowds call on the government to pull the gendarmes out of Kabylie region, which comprises Tizi Ouzou and Bejaia provinces east of Algiers. The police and gendarmes keep a low profile as demonstrators chant chant, general name for one-voiced, unaccompanied, liturgical music. Usually it refers to the liturgical melodies of the Byzantine, Russian Orthodox, Roman Catholic, and Anglican churches and is analogous to cantillation in Jewish liturgical music, Qur'anic chanting "Terrorist gendarmes out of our region!" Organisers put the crowd at more than one million, but independent reporters estimated about half a million. |
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