The Movement of Algeria salutes the hope of the victims of the black decade

Salma Harraz - Algeria

25 years or more passed by her bitterness, misery and oppression. Fatima Zahra Bouzherf never forgot the details of the last moments to forcibly take her son to the unknown, just as he did not heal the wounds of two decades ago. The resigning President Abdelaziz Bouteflika answers the mothers of the wounded. "Your sons are not in my body. "He said.

Bouteflika's response to the question of the families of the enforced disappeared about the fate of their children after he took office in 1999, and the more harsh his words were, the more thousands of mourners were burned, the greater the joy of announcing his resignation and the flame of mobility.

Fatima al-Zahra is one of thousands whose family members mysteriously disappeared during the black decade in Algeria and are believed to have been kidnapped by state agencies. "Bouteflika's departure and the winds of change were the first joy I have lived since I lost my son's news," she said. 25 years ago. "

Many families refused to buy their silence by accepting an "instrument of forgetfulness" in the form of financial compensation offered by the state under the Charter of Peace and National Reconciliation Act of September 1999.

We are not alone
Broken and wounded, so Fatima Al-Zahraa, speaking to Al-Jazeera Net, seemed to hug the image of her son, Riad Al-Muthefi, since 1996, when he was 21 years old. "When I go out today in the millions marches and young people and families approach me to ask about my son's picture and the circumstances of his disappearance and shed tears with me, Just like me, we are not asking for truth and justice. Only a few months ago, no one stood aside except for the security interests that are struggling to prevent us from gathering. "

The same life for Fatima al-Zahra is no longer the case since her son, who had no political activity, was kidnapped. He went out to give me gifts for his mother, who was widowed at a young age, and raised him and his brothers without a father since he was two years old. "The hallucinations of forgetfulness," and failed all attempts to trace him was like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Umm al-Riyad, a spokeswoman for Al-Jazeera Net, continued: "Justice has opened many files of corruption, and files of our sons are among the most important files that should be opened and hold accountable those who are behind our oppression and the burning of our lions. Heart and soul and not a dog or a cat until we forget or forget. "

Unknown tombs

The numbers of the disappeared are currently around 8,000, according to Farhati Hassan, a spokesman for the SOS Association, while the figures of the National Human Rights Observatory indicate 6146 hidden, while the gendarmerie counts 7200 cases of enforced concealment.

Farhati, whose brother Moustafa disappeared in 1998, struggles with the families at the Society's headquarters - not far from the central post office in the capital, the heart of the movement - in writing the slogans that adapted to the movement. Perhaps the most famous of them is " ), "Klito to Balad and Zdtu to slaves" ("You ate the country and the people") and "Our children returned us to our homes" ("Bring our children back to our homes").

For Mr. Farhati, determining the fate of missing persons necessarily means revealing the names of those lying in unknown graves, so that thousands of families are relieved and consoled, such as the family of Ben Ja'el in Algiers, whose son was kidnapped on his way to Morocco in 1994 in the capital. Four dates of his death.

conflict
Murad's sister, who took her mother's place in search of her brother, continues to search for his impact and raise his image in the field of mobility. "Where is the truth and how and when did my brother die?" After four death dates appeared.

She told Al-Jazeera Net that Justice informed the family that her son died in May 1994 and the death record at the Al-'Aliya cemetery in the capital where he wrote that he died on August 12, 1994, while the burial permit Which stated that he died on June 7, 1994, while the National Gendarmerie says he died in a clash with the police during his escape attempt in the Kasbah district of the capital in 2006.

Amidst all this inconsistency, the authorities refuse to allow the family to exhume the body and conduct DNA testing.

The same feeling is felt by Fatima Lakhal of Algiers, who sees in the movement the hope that her daughter will finally be able to visit her father's grave, which was left by a six-year-old girl until she grew up and became a mother of a girl in her fourth month.

Issa's husband was 40 years old when he was arrested by the police and accompanied by his friend, but there was no trace of his name in the police records, as if this man had never existed.

"If I was told that he was arrested, died and buried, at least I would have asked him and I would have found my condolences. But as long as the confusion continues, the fires of my heart will not go out," Fatima told Al Jazeera.net. , It may sweep away the mobility of hidden dark cell corridors.