FREEDOM FIGHTERS, FREEDOM WRITERS!
The Azawad Support Group is a diverse group of Azawad activists, Tuaregs and friends and allies of the Tuaregs, living all over the world.
The Azawad Support Group are activists and writers for the cause of Azawad working both together and idependently, as well as with co-writers like Azawad Freedom Voice, Toumast Info etc, knowing this is a legal and just cause for the people of Azawad who have the right to live in freedom and independence in their own homeland like any other people. Our mission is to not remain silent in the face of adversity and oppression, of all the crimes committed against the people of Azawad in the face of this terrible genocide. To remain silent if you can do something is to be complicit and we are here to raise awareness and support the people of Azawad.
Their land, which was stolen by France who called it “French Sudan”, (how can other people´s land be theirs? be “french” ? it was never french…) and who – arrogantly without the slightest regard for the fact that there were people living there already, and without their consent – handed it over to Mali, which was the state they created at the end of their colonization, drawing artificial borders in this desert area where many nomads already lived a free life without borders which they had always done for thousands of years.
The people of Azawad want only one thing – to be free from injustice, racism, oppression, marginalization and genocide – simply because they exist and have existed on these lands of the great Sahara since time immemorial where their ancestors engraved the tifinagh and drawings of animals and people on the rocks that dot the entire region and which are today the ultimate proof that this land belongs to them. This is also what the desert blues band Tamikrest sings in their song “Azawad”.
Tifinagh is their centuries-old writing, the oldest alphabet on the planet, and still used by the Amazigh people, of which the Tuareg are a branch who settled in the Sahara long before Mali existed, and who formed their own culture which is different from any other. They too have the right to live on their land, like any other people, and they have been fighting for their independence since the 1960s.
The international media does not fail to point out that many other places on this planet are the scene of oppression by totalitarian governments and dictatorships and genocides perpetrated in the name of profit and power and which indeed is a sad truth that everybody knows about but…..for some reason, economic interests or other reasons, the situation in Azawad is being silenced.
WE ARE HERE TO TELL THE WORLD WHAT IS HAPPENING IN AZAWAD AND BREAK THE SILENCE ON AZAWAD!
We hope to see a peaceful solution regarding the problem between Azawad and Mali, two distincly different nations who should never had been attached together, a damage that still cause serious problems of oppression and genocide on the Azawadian population that has been ongoing since 64 years. Unfortunately Mali does not want a peaceful solution and therefore the Azawad Liberation Front army, the FLA, keeps fighting for freedom of the people of Azawad.
The so-called “Tuareg rebellions” which should rather be called “resistance and fight for freedom” are nothing but a people´s reaction to severe injustice and oppression to the point of calculated genocide and the scorched earth policy. Those that says that Azawad should live in peace with Mali do not understand that the authorities of Mali don`t want any peace, they want extermination of Azawad. They always wanted it.
Before coloinization and the creation of the artificial borders (the “fences”) and the state of Mali, Azawad was free without borders and belonged to its people. It should be returned to them. It`s a just cause.
This is the goal of this blog, to raise awreness and support the fight for freedom for the people of Azawad.
Azawad Support Group 2025
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