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| | Al-Ahram Weekly Revamping the protest song |
 | | The assassination of Matoub Lounes on 25 June unleashed a wave of protest from the Kabyle minority in Algeria and among Kabyle immigrants living in France. | | | And among Kabyle artists, he was the most bitter critic of the Algerian government, accusing it of persecuting the Kabyle minority, of incompetence in confronting the Islamists, of deep seated corruption and economic mismanagement. | | | But it remains equally true that the Rally for Culture and Democracy has attempted to capitalise on the assassination of the singer in order to propagate its own views and positions on various issues connected with the Algerian crisis, views that are not necessarily shared by a majority of the group they claim to represent. |
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| | BBC News AFRICA Algerian singer's 'assassins' on trial |
| | Matoub sang on regardless, but his open protestations that he was not an Arab and did not have to be a Muslim challenged not just Islamist tenets, but also those of the state as it sought to enforce a programme of Arabisation. | | | Now Matoub's wife, who was in the car he was driving when the assassins struck, is giving new credence to those allegations. | | | Eight of the 10 accused - all alleged Islamists - are being tried in absentia. |
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| | Lounès Matoub - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | On 30 June 1998 the GIA claimed responsibility for the assassination of Lounes Matoub. | | | Long Live the Martyr!": Kabyle Mobilization and the Assassination of Lounès Matoub Middle East Report Online. | | | Matoub had been an outspoken critic of this law. |
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| | Tamazight Lost its Popular Singer and Activist |
| | Matoub targeted specific events such as the 1985 London meeting and accords between Ben-Bella and Ait-Ahmed, the present leader of the FFS political party and also a leader during the Algerian war of independence | | | In addition, Matoub purposely denounced the Algerian government’s close contacts and dealings with the conservative religious parties. | | | He escaped from prison and went into exile. |
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| | Matoub Lounes Persecuted by Islam |
| | Matoub Lounes was a Popular Algerian song-writer, political activist for Algeria’s Berber people, and singer, Lounes was murdered in 1998. | | | The GIA had kidnapped Lounes in 1994 and held him hostage for two weeks. | | | london craigslist > rants and raves > Matoub Lounes Persecuted by Islam |
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| | news and letters August/September Lead article |
| | Matoub had long been on the fundamentalists' death list because his songs dealt frankly with sexuality and other "forbidden" themes, and because of his support for the secular Berber-based political party, the Assembly for Culture and Democracy. | | | Long before the rise of fundamentalism, Matoub had first gained prominence during the Berber Spring of 1980, a cultural and political revolt against the Arabization policies of the single-party National Liberation Front regime, then still in power. | | | Although a splinter of the murderous Armed Islamic Group (GIA) took responsibility for the murder, the thousands who came out into the streets of Tizi-Ouzou and elsewhere to mourn Matoub made clear that they also blamed the military regime for his death. |
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| | UNESCO CONDEMNS ASSASSINATION OF ALGERIAN SINGER LOUNES MATOUB {25 June 1998} |
| | Lounes Matoub was already kidnapped in September 1994, today he was killed by people who cannot bear that others sing, or think freely.” | | | All too many Algerians have paid with their blood for the madness of the instigators of violence and intolerance.” Mr Mayor extended his condolences to the family. | | | Paris, June 25 {No.98-138} - UNESCO Director-General Federico Mayor today strongly condemned the assassination of popular Algerian singer Lounes Matoub. |
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| | Emazighen.com / The Rebel is Dead |
| | Rock-throwing rioters decry the government as the assassin of not only Matoub but Berber culture in general. | | | Political divisions within the MCB have been swept aside as the factions associated with the two rival Kabyle political parties—Rally for Culture and Democracy (RCD) and Socialist Forces Front (FFS)5—have jointly petitioned the government to abrogate the new language policy. | | | During Algeria’s October 1988 urban riots in Algiers (which forced the legalization of rival political parties), he was shot five times by a policeman and left for dead. |
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| | Declaration of The Friends of the Lounes Matoub Foundation |
| | In December 1997, the administration of the RCD offered to help Lounès Matoub obtain a visa for his wife, whom he had been hoping to bring to France. | | | On June 13, 1998, Lounès went to Algeria with the hopes of straightening out the visa in question and returning to France accompanied by his wife. | | | The attorneys of NAH went off in a violent and schizophrenic reproach, putting themselves in combat with Malika for the truth, instead of introducing precise facts related to the alleged slander. |
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| | Matoub's death came nearly four years after he was kidnapped by about 20 suspected members of the GIA near the site where he was killed. | | | French President Jacques Chirac blasted what he called a ``cowardly murder'', adding that he hoped Matoub's voice ``will not be silenced''. | | | A week after the kidnapping more than 100,000 people took to the streets at Tizi-Ouzou calling for his release. |
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| | NodeWorks - Encyclopedia: Matoub Lounes |
| | June 30 the GIA (Islamist terrorists) asserts the assassination of Matoub Lounes. | | | Adulated in Kabylie but hated in the rest of the country because of his atheism and Blasphemous songs (like Allahu Akbar (Matoub)), He was assassinated on June 25, 1998 in circumstances which were not still completely elucidated. | | | Lounes Matoub is a famous Kabyle singer who supported the Berber cause and secularism in Algeria during all his life. |
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| | BBC News MIDDLE EAST The Berbers: fighting on two fronts |
| | It is generally believed it was the Islamists - not the government - that was behind his killing at a fake roadblock. | | | It was precisely that assertion of Berber cultural rights that enhanced the rise of Lounes Matoub and other politically motivated Berber performers. | | | In his music and his political activity, Matoub was radically pro-Berber and anti-Arab. |
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| | TAWIZA amazigh startpagina |
| | They are a year behind in their studies because they joined thousands of other young people in a one-year school boycott as a sign of defiance. | | | Instead, he became in death a powerful symbol of defiance for an ethnic minority that has challenged the government's decision to define Algeria as an Arab nation. | | | Matoub was killed by gunmen in June 1998 on a mountain road near his hometown. |
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| | Assassination of Algerian singer Lounes draws strong condemnations |
| | Lounes was murdered when he was stopped at a fake barrcade in his native al-Qabeil. | | | The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) condemned on Friday the assassination of Algerian singer Lounes Matoub, terming his killing a "barbarian" act. | | | Lounes, 42, the most popular political singer in Algeria had increased his opposition against the Armed Islamic Group (GIA) after he had survived a 15-day kidnapping by the end of September 1994. |
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| | Matoub Lounes: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic |
| | June 30 the GIA (A terrorist organization of Islamic extremists whose violant activities began in 1992; aims to overthrow the secular Algerian regime and replace it with an Islamic state) | | | [for more, click this link] (Islamist terrorists) asserts the assassination of Matoub Lounes. | | | 1998 Lounes Matoub is cowardly assassinated under mysterious conditions before the release of his last album: “letter open to
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| | Al-Ahram Weekly The birth of Matoub Lounes |
| | While his rivals aired their doubts as to whether the whole incident were not just a hoax, other commentators expressed incredulity that anyone should return alive from the hands of the Islamists, and drew parallels with other incidents widely believed to have been the work of the armed forces. | | | His wife and two sisters-in-law who were travelling with him were seriously injured. | | | The second life of Matoub Lounes is just beginning. |
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| | It is widely thought that the Islamists - not the government - were behind his killing at a fake roadblock in 1998. | | | In his music and his politics, Matoub was strongly anti-Arab and pro-Berber. | | | Berber speakers like Matoub argued that this was a government attempt to appease fundamentalists and which Berbers should fight. |
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| | Afropop Worldwide |
| | Nobody knows for certain who killed Matoub Lounes, but Alileche went back to Kabylia in 2000, and he says that virtually everyone there believes that the government did it. | | | In October, 1988, Matoub was ambushed and shot 5 times by gendarmes, the government. | | | He was very, very clear in his songs, and he is the only singer--not only Algeria, but in all of North Africa--who criticized the government and criticized clearly. |
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| | Shot by the police in 1988, kidnapped by assailants (who also murdered Rai singer Chab Hasni) in 1994, Matoub was finally gunned down four years later by a dozen assassins outside his native village, and died at the age of 42. | | | The rigorously independent Matoub, who lived for a time in Paris, was highly critical of a succession of corrupt and repressive regimes in Algeria and equally opposed to militant fundamentalist Islam. | | | Central to the album is the seventeen minute suite 'Hommage à Lounès Matoub', dedicated to the Algerian protest singer who was murdered in 1998. |
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| | The Peace Encyclopedia: Christians in the Middle East |
| | 19/7/98 The GIA has claimed responsibility for the death of Berber singer Lounes Matoub. | | | How many Christians remain in the Middle East? | | | "It is common knowledge that the slain Lounes Matoub was among the most stubborn enemies of religion and the Mujahideen (Holy warriors)", their statement read. |
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| | ALGERIA / PEACE |
| | Matoub says she wants an inquiry into her son's death. | | | Matoub says she is waiting for justice -- justice that President Abdelaziz Bouteflika promised her would be rendered. | | | Like tens of thousands of Algerians, Matoub was killed in the violence that has ripped this country apart since 1992. |
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| | Hundreds riot in Algeria over slaying of outspoken pop singer |
| | Officials blamed Matoub's death on the Armed Islamic Group, which kidnapped the singer in 1994 and held him for two weeks. | | | Thursday's shooting of Lounes Matoub brought an outpouring of emotion among young people in Tizi-Ouzou, the regional capital of Algeria's Berber people. | | | Berbers, a Muslim people, are struggling for government recognition of their own language, Tamazight. |
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| | UNESCO DIRECTOR-GENERAL REAFFIRMS HIS OUTRAGE AT THE MURDER OF ALGERIAN SINGER {26 June 1998} |
| | Upon hearing of Lounes Matoub’s murder yesterday, Mr Mayor condemned the assassination. | | | As news media continued to report on the impact of the death of the singer who was a champion of freedom and human rights, Mr Mayor declared: “Ignorance, violence and terrorism have killed a voice of particular importance for the youth of Algeria. | | | This outrageous act deserves the condemnation of all who stand on the side of freedom and art.” |
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| | LIBYA'S FREE VOICE MESSAGE BOARD Forums - View Topic |
| | I don't know where Matoub Lounes is from and what is going on in his country between Arabs and Amazigh.However,in Libya,we arabs and amazigh are brothers and there are no problems between us(except those caused by Gadhafi). | | | I would like to define the Arab world as a multi-cultural world that includes all its peoples(phoenicians,Numidians,Moors,Tuareq,black africans,assyrians,bedouin and Amazigh).We are many tribes but one people. |
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| | BBC News MIDDLE EAST Berbers mark death of protest singer |
| | The authorities are nervous the march to commemorate his death will spark a new wave of unrest in the Kabylia region, in which at least 80 people are reported to have been killed since April. | | | A move which Mr Matoub and other Berber speakers vehemently opposed. | | | The march is taking place under the political backdrop of two months of violent clashes led by the Berber speaking community, which is angry about police brutality and government suppression. |
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| | French Colonies - Algeria (Part 3) |
| | Matoub had been an outspoken critic of both the government and the Islamic extremists. | | | Another wave of massacres, including one in which more than 400 villagers were slaughtered (Dec. 30, 1997), brought increased international pressure on the government to halt the violence. | | | The most radical of Algeria's Islamic extremist groups, the Armed Islamic Group (GIA), claimed responsibility for the June 1998 murder of the popular Berber singer Lounes Matoub, an event that sparked riots in the Berber-dominated northeast. |
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| | WAAC's News Updates: 6-28-01 |
| | The people do not buy it, "only an inquiry could shed light on this act," some say. | | | No one voices the reason for this needless act of repression against Matoub Lounes, who is now, not only a hero of the fight for Tamazight, but also an inspiration to all the young men and women of Kabylia. | | | Young people gather around her when she visits, and she is never alone as she sits on a stone bench nearby. |
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| | The crowds, carrying banners that declared, “We are not Arabs,” chanted anti-government slogans in Berber and French, accusing the authorities of the killing. | | | Algeria may be all of the above, but 36 years after the departure of French colonisers who had forcibly imposed their own language and culture, the country is still struggling to reconcile the various aspects of its personality. | | | With independence in 1962, the adoption of Arabic as the national language was a natural choice to mark the break with France and forge an identity suited to the country’s new status as a third-world leader. |
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| | October 16 1994: A journalist working for Algerian state radio's Berber-language service is shot dead outside his house by gunmen believed to be Islamic militants. | | | June 28 1998 The killing of Berber entertainer Lounes Matoub by Muslim Fundamentalists led to protests by Berbers against both the Islamic movement and the government, and new language law. | | | October 10 1994: Islamic militants sentence kidnaped Berber singer Lounes to death and then release him unharmed. |
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| | The Toby Press: Algerian Freedom Fighters |
| | The day before I left, the Berber protest singer Matoub Lounes had been assassinated by Islamic fundamentalists and there were angry demonstrations on the streets of Paris and Algiers. | | | I Think of matoub Lounes, who once sang: "the grave awaits us all, whether its today or tomorrow." In Algeria the grave is always premature. | | | On the Plane, passengers discussed his death with dull resignation,as though the singer was a symbol for all of the horror in Algeria. |
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| | Amazon.com: Lettre Ouverte Aux: Music: Lounes Matoub |
| | Best of the best - Matoub est et sera toujours vivant, September 24, 1999 | | | Lounes Matoub was killed a few days before this CD was released. | | | The CD, entitled "open letter to..." is a highly political one and symbolizes Matoub's activism for a democratic Algeria and the Berber struggle. |
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| | Algeria on brink after murder of Berber singer |
| | VIOLENCE in Algeria following the death of Lounes Matoub, a Berber singer who articulated the aspirations and grievances of his people, has claimed two more victims, it was reported yesterday. | | | Matoub was a fierce opponent of the murderous Muslim zealots who took up arms against the government in 1992 after they cancelled elections that the Islamists were set to win. | | | Matoub, 42, was as famous among French Algerians as he was at home, and several thousand people gathered in the Place de la République in Paris and in Marseilles on Sunday to pay tribute to him. |
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| | Lounes, Matoub Biography |
| | Lounes is a distinctive vocalist who was wounded by government bullets and kidnapped by Islamist radicals, before he was finally assassinated by the latter at a road block in 1998. | | | Lounes wrote songs which openly challenged both the Islamist and the government, asserting the linguistic and cultural rights of the Kabylies. | | | Clearly, Matoub Lounes sets the standard for social involvement on the part of the artist. |
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| | SHOOT THE SINGER - BOOK LAUNCH AND SEMINAR. - Artists Without Frontiers Online Magazine |
| | Sadly, two years after the documentary was made, Matoub went back to his home country, where he got married. | | | He then explained how other artists, like Matoub Lounes, are being forced to be silenced when speaking the truth. | | | After her short welcoming, where she also spoke of her organisation, Freemuse and the whole concept of music censorship, she introduced the audience to Andy Morgan, who had filmed a documentary on Matoub Lounes, an Algerian singer who had moved to France after his music was being oppressed and censored by the government. |
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| | PARTENIA Letter of august 1st 1998 from Jacques Gaillot |
| | Lounès Matoub, a man of freedom and a herald of Berber culture was treacherously murdered in his homeland. | | | Lounès reminds us that freedom has a high cost, it is an every day struggle. | | | Lounès Matoub, the rebellious singer, will for a long time continue to make |
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| | Literary Review: Letter about the Rulers … - Poem on LookSmart Junior High |
| | Translator's Note: This work is one of the last songs written by Matoub before he was ambushed and assassinated on July 25, 1998, at age 42. | | | This work uses the music of the Algerian National Anthem to sing lyrics which criticize the government. |
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| | Lounes Matoub, 42, Is Killed; Sang to Promote Berber Cause - Free Preview - The New York Times |
| | Lounes Matoub, 42, Is Killed; Sang to Promote Berber Cause - Free Preview - The New York Times | | | DISPLAYING FIRST 50 OF 446 WORDS -Lounes Matoub, a popular Algerian singer and Berber patriot who was kidnapped by Muslim militants in Algeria four years ago but was freed and had lived mostly in France since, was killed in an ambush near his hometown east of Algiers on Thursday. | | | Lounes Matoub, 42, Is Killed; Sang to Promote Berber Cause |
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| | The Amazigh Voice, June 1995 |
| | Matoub Lounes, the Amazigh singer who was kidnapped for 15 days by the GIA, the Armed Islamic Group, last September, performed in Tizi Wezzu on Thursday April 20th and in Bgayet the day after. | | | Although the GIA had forbidden him to sing, Matoub, who had lived the last six months in seclusion in Paris, went to Algeria to specifically take part in the commemoration of the Amazigh Spring. | | | In Bgayet, 150 miles East of Algiers, tens of thousands marched in the streets, shouting "Tamazight in schools." Thousands of marchers had come from the Amazigh speaking villages of Setif, 50 miles South-East of Bgayet, such as Bousselam, Ait Ourtilane and Ait Yala. |
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| | Matoub Lounes Mondomix *** musiques du monde *** world music |
| | Despite having received repeated death threats and even having been kidnapped in 1994, Lounes Matoub fearlessly dedicated his wonderful talents as writer, unique voice and ultimately his life to a struggle that continues to this day. | | | The Algerian poet and singer Lounes Matoub was assassinated by the GIA on 25 June 1998, on a mountain road in his native region of Kabylie. | | | A record number of participants closed one of the most successful editions in WOMEX’s 11 year history. |
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| | Freemuse: Algeria: Matoub Lounès - Berber Guerilla of Pop |
| | Algerian musician and rai rebel Rachid Taha has told BBC World Service that he believes Western radio stations deliberately refrain from airing political songs. | | | The story of the legendary singer who was assasinated in 1998. | | | Read about the legendary Berber singer who was assasinated in 1998. |
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| | MUSIC FROM MATOUB |
| | Matoub will always be alive through his music and his legacy. | | | Here on this page is my tribute to Lounes Matoub a symbol to me and to the rest of the Amazigh people. | | | For words like these Matoub was killed on June 25 |
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| | Moh Alileche/ Tragedy / Kabilya Music |
| | Frequently, the protesters carry aloft posters of their fallen cultural/political hero, Matoub Lounes. | | | Throughout this year, tens of thousands of Algerian Berbers have been demonstrating, in Kabylia and in Algiers, for official recognition of their language (Amazigh) and an end to official repression. | | | The title track of Tragedy is dedicated to Matoub Lounes, the talented and militant Kabylie musician assassinated in Algeria in 1998. |
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| | Salaam Knowledge |
| | He was assassinated in Kabylia, when he returned from France after three years in exile. | | | Lounes recorded his first album in 1978 entitled Ay Izem (The lion) and it proved a hit. | | | Lounes Matoub was born at Taurirt-Moussa, a village in Greater Kabylia, in Algeria. |
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| | TIMEeurope.com: Middle East A Long, Hot Summer |
| | Three years later, even the killing of Lounès remains a mystery. | | | When shadowy commandos assassinated the 42-year-old folk hero three years ago June 25, he instantly became a martyr for the Berber cause. | | | Algerians have ample reason to fear a hot summer, as angry young protesters face an entrenched regime determined to keep power at any cost. |
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| | This piece is the cornerstone of the record, and it offers the most open space. | | | For the most part, the group prefers to take structural ideas to their logical extremes. | | | The sprawling concerto piece “Hommage a Lounes Matoub” launches from a gentle trumpet fanfare into an extended cello solo, then evolves into neo-tribal rhythms with plenty of room for everyone to stretch out. |
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| | Joining Algeria's uprising / In France, protesters unite in opposition to North African government |
| | The rally, an annual event since Matoub's mysterious slaying in 1998, took on new urgency because of the demonstrations roiling Nehad's homeland. | | | In France, protesters unite in opposition to North African government | | | Paris -- Wrapped in the flag of Algeria's defiant Kabylie region, Norredine Nehad picked his way past toddlers and roller bladers at a sun-washed park in northern Paris last weekend to join a boisterous rally commemorating slain Algerian singer and Berber rights activist Lounes Matoub. |
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| | Spin the Globe Playlist: South Africa + Pangia Inteview |
| | And we ended with a tribute to Amazigh singer and activist Lounes Matoub, who was assassinated in Algeria on June 15, 1998. | | | We also spoke with members of the band Pangia, in Olympia for a bellydancing concert tonight. |
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