Nomads play
an important role in the regeneration of grazing and forests in Morocco,
bringing them marginalized by the Moroccan state. They are called nomads in
Moroccan society, they live in the margins of the process of production,
despite producing organic meat, sensory quality.
Thousands of
Amazigh tribal families in southeastern Morocco live in the margins. Most of
them take the caves of the Saghro mountains as shelters. Despite the existence
of silver mines under their feet, they are forced to break the crust in the
peaks of the Atlas Mountains.
Their
children are never in school and their wives may die at the time of delivery.
Their dead, at the time of their journey on pastures, are abandoned where they
died. They have cemeteries all over the Atlas Mountains.
They leave
Saghro, with their families, when the area is devoid of grass, to reach the
grass-rich pastures of the Anti-Atlas, to feed their flocks.
They are
deprived of human rights and the authorities never stop hunting, harassing and
extorting them to steal their property. Law 13-113 approves all these acts of
modern discrimination in Morocco.
The SNPPPF
denounces this apartheid, the file of the shepherds as they are called, is at
the top of our agenda!
In a meeting
with the authorities of Taroudant in the rural district of Assaki on January
31, 2019, with the presence of the peasant union, forest professionals of
Tamtatoucht denounce the law 13-113 which requires the authorizations of the
State to exploit the pasture Amazigh communities in the Anti-Atlas in southern
Morocco.
A resultant
law of agricultural class policies, which aims at the ease of grabbing
collective land of poor peasants by big landowners.
Zaid
Takrayout representing forestry professionals from Ait Merghad with the peasant
union in Morocco.
