The executive office of the International Collective in Support of Families of Moroccan Origin Expelled from Algeria in 1975 (CiMEA), held a meeting on Friday November 15, 2024 in Rabat with the participation of all of its members. This meeting was devoted to examining several points including aspects related to organizational and financial management.
Participants in this meeting discussed the preliminary results of the study entitled “Memory of Moroccans expelled from Algeria in 1975”, supervised by CiMEA in cooperation with the Council of the Moroccan Community Abroad (CCME). This study is carried out by a group of Master’s students from the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences of Meknes under the supervision of Professor Mimoun Aziza, teacher-researcher in the history of migration within the same faculty. The members looked at the different aspects of this academic research and made several remarks aimed at enriching and promoting this unprecedented scientific work, which traces the multiple paths of this humanitarian and legal question.
CiMEA members also took stock of the progress of the program to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the tragedy of the expulsion of Moroccans from Algeria, while reaffirming the need to continue efforts to preserve this memory and to provide the necessary means to ensure the success of this initiative, which provides for the organization of several activities, particularly at the international level, throughout 2025.
In this regard, the members of the CiMEA executive office expressed their continued mobilization and their entire readiness to deploy all efforts to ensure the success of this event, welcoming in this sense the stakeholders who have announced their commitment and support of this initiative, which is part of the general CiMEA program.
This program aims particularly to plead with national and international authorities to defend the interests of Moroccans expelled from Algeria, as well as to put pressure on the Algerian authorities for official recognition of the serious violations committed in 1975 against Moroccans residing there. for decades on Algerian soil, and also to present an official apology and repair individual and collective harm.
Furthermore, the participants in this meeting stressed the need to develop a media and communication strategy to raise awareness of the tragedy of Moroccans expelled from Algeria in 1975, while continuing to open up to the academic world through encouragement of scientific research and the carrying out of studies and work around this issue.
The International Collective in Support of Moroccan Families Expelled from Algeria in 1975, founded on February 27, 2021 as an international non-governmental organization, aims to advocate for the restitution of property illegally confiscated by the Algerian state and for compensation financial and moral for the benefit of victims and their beneficiaries for the damage suffered due to abusive collective expulsion and also to facilitate the reunification of Moroccan families with those who are still established in Algeria.
CiMEA also aims to put pressure on the Algerian authorities to recognize the violations suffered by these citizens, by reminding them of their clear responsibilities in this tragedy and by compensating the victims for the damage suffered.
The International Collective considers that the Algerian government assumes full responsibility for this tragedy, and continues to orchestrate campaigns of disinformation and concealment of the reality of this tragedy. It deliberately neglects the fact that these Moroccan citizens had legally resided in Algeria for decades and that many of them had founded mixed Algerian-Moroccan families and actively participated in Algeria’s independence.
Rabat – November 15, 2024 [email protected]
