Who is the political detainee
Said Oba Mimoun?
Where is he from ?
His ancestral grandfather,
Sidi Ayad, founder of the ancient city, Douar Sidi Ayad, discovered the gold
mine at Ahuli in the 17th century. He founded the city, Zawiya, the old school
and operated the mine.
All the gold that had
accumulated during one year of work, thanks to its workers / slaves, was stolen
from one of the Sultans of Morocco. According to the story circulating among
the peasants, one of the sultans asked Sidi Ayad to collect the gold product
for a whole year, and he had collected this huge amount of gold. The Sultant
needed this amount of gold in the construction of the road between Meknes and
Fez. The Sultant's army had come to recover the gold, but Sidi Ayad died and
the gold is gone. His family had left the place after setting up a shrine to visit
him, to search for lost / stolen gold.
His grandfather Sidi Ayad, had
founded the ancient city in a strategic area of the valley. After the
discovery of the gold mine, he became rich. All gold collected for a year was
stolen by a Sultant and his city is destroyed. The members of his family are
transformed into nomads and clashed with neighboring tribes. Wars broke out
because of borders and remained a source of tribal conflict.
The border dispute triggered
by the administrative decision imposed by the state in 2012 approved it, and
the struggle of the peasants of Sidi Ayad to recover the 10,000 hectares that
had lost is triggered.
His grandfather, the last of
his ancestors, at the end of the 19th, is the defending leader of the territory
of the Sidi Ayad tribe. He was subjected to torture during his life and was
arrested many times and dragged on horseback: on the back, his hands tied and
pulled on horseback. He is still on the verge of fighting enemies, other
tribes, for the right to land, said militant Said Oba Mimoun who fights in the
spirit of Sidi Ayad, ancestral grandfather.
His life :
Said Oba Mimoun was born in
1986 and did not finish his studies, like all the rest of the children of Sidi
Ayad, deprived of school. He stopped his studies in the first year of high
school, scientific branch, although he was intelligent and superior in
mathematics. He married and has three children.
Worked very early in the
building construction sector and learned the technique of building electricity.
Founded a small company and
worked with large companies in maintenance in several cities of Morocco.
In 2012, he organized the
farmers' protests in Sidi Ayad against the state's administrative decision to
occupy their collective lands and was oppressed because of its protests, where
a peasant was arrested. He led the struggle of the peasants against the
occupation of 4500 hectares of their land by the project Noor 4.
Since this event he is
attached to the question of land and founded the agricultural development
association of peasants of Sidi Ayad, to more organize.
In December 2016, he became a
member of the Peasant Union and in charge of land issues. Since then he has
been controlled by the state and trying to prove the identity of the peasants
of Sidi Ayad as indigenous inhabitants belonging to the tribe Ait Marghad.
He has become the conscious
spirit of the peasants of Sidi Ayad and among his peasants, including his
brothers, is the only one to have a culture that may have exceeded his level of
study. I always thought he was at university.
Assistant Treasurer of the
Regional Office of the Peasant Union of Midelt. The file of Sidi Ayyad, who
carried with him is the axis of the peasant trade union struggle in Midetl
where he was able to form a consensus of the peasants around him. They had
participated in the national sitin-in of the Peasant Union on 28/12/2017 in
front of the parliament, symbol of the trade union struggle and Sidi Ayad in
the light of the delay of the regional authorities.
And, had already organized
several demonstrations, sit-ins, marches and rallies on behalf of the Peasant
Union in 2017 to defend this issue, and contributed to several national union
meetings in Midelt on the issue of land.
The participation of farmers
from Sidi Ayad in the national sit-in before the parliament and the National
Council at the UMT regional headquarters in Rabat on 28/12/2017 is strong, with
the number of participating farmers reaching 32 peasants. After this huge event
in the life of the Peasant Union, the protesters of Tamtatouchte were attacked
and 12 peasants were arrested, prosecuted and convicted, including political
detainee Zaid Tkriout, provincial secretary general of the Peasant Union in
Tinghir.
Participated in several
demonstrations of protest, mutilation and interference in favor of the
political prisoners of Tamtatouchte.
Attended the appeal hearing of
his detainees at the Ouarzazate Court, representing the Peasant Union as a
member of the Administrative Committee. After the decision of the judgment
approving the same trial of conviction, he contacted the judge, the head of the
body, wondering why this false decision, the judge replied: I am only an
executor of orders. He has at times declared this position of the judge during
trade union activities.
In order to limit his
movement, which disturbed the Midelt authorities and opportunism within the
Peasant Union, a conspiracy was launched against him by the mafia of the quarry.
He had a career through a contract with the commune of Mebladane and an
employee of the river basin agency, accusing him of insulting him on 18/04/2018
with false witnesses of the quarry mafia and sentenced to 4 months in prison.
His first trial because of his struggle for the right of peasants from Sidi
Ayad to the land.
During his arrest, he was
daring with the prosecutor in a question to his deputy for the real reason for
his arrest, who replied: You are opposed to the King's plan.
After being released from
prison, he was threatened several times by the authorities, the gendarmerie and
the prosecutor's office for having retaliated against him.
Reported his incidents during
several meetings and union activities.
His case was tainted by the
Peasant Union's struggles for the release of Tamtatouchte's detainees until he
thought we had neglected his case. On several occasions he had pointed out this
suggestion.
And, perhaps its recent
arrest, will give the Peasant Union the good faith of its activists towards it!
Although some opportunists let themselves be disturbed.
Found in the Peasant Syndicate
a vast stadium to develop his fighting abilities and, although he did not
participate in the first congress of the Peasant Syndicate as well as his
peasant comrades where he is detained and the peasants of Sidi Ayad were
absent.
Participated in several
activities and first the reception ceremony of political detainee Zaid
Takrayout on 11/01/2019 in Tinghir and was honored as a political detainee.
Participated in several
activities organized in coordination with the Atak Morocco Association in
Agadir, Beni Mellal, and Sidi Ayad.
Organized the open sit-in of
farmers of Sidi Ayad from February 22, 2019 to March 10, 2019 for their right
to land. He cried during the stop of this event, which was lifted by a decision
of the peasants. He knows the maneuver of the authorities and their false
promises, but he has obeyed the decision of the majority, despite his inability
to believe the false promises of the state.
Participated in the tent of
peasant women in Tamtatouchte, on the occasion of March 8, organized by the
Peasant Union on March 15, 16 and 17, 2019 and bearing the file of Sidi Ayad.
On the morning of 18 March
2019 at 10H20, preparing for the organization of the general assembly of
peasants, at the headquarters of their association, which he had founded in
accordance with the Basic Law, for the foundation of the office On the basis of
his democratic convictions for the participation of the peasants in the
so-called dialogue with the provincial authorities of Midelt and the
preparatory committee of the peasants, Sidi Ayad's trade union office was
surprised by the authorities' offensives.
Chief Caid, representing
authorities in the communities of Ait Oufla, with two gendarmes and law
enforcement agents, attacked the siege and attempted to arrest him. Thus, the
leader, Chief Caid, triggered his fall to the ground, became obscure and
claimed to be beaten by political detainee Said Oba Mimoun.
The resurrection of the
authorities and the gendarmerie of Midelt, who mobilized all his forces to
arrest him at 16H, pending the arrival of members of the national office who
also wish to stop them.
The demonstrations: sit-ins
and peasant markets were re-launched in the streets of Midelt during his arrest
by the gendarmes and after the prosecutor's decision to return him to the
prison of Midelt on 19/03/2019 by accusations heavy: file 1131/2101/2019
insulting an official and violence against him during and because of his
duties, crime of disobedience, case of disobedience, first judgment on
21/03/2019 and the second on 28/03/2019 .
The struggle continues for
their right to the land
Videos of the events:
Agadir of 22/03/2019
Generalsekretär der
Bauernvereinigung
Lahoucine Amal
