| I Totally Agree With You ! |
| JAMAL ELABIAD | ||
The following are examples of the facts I depended on to make such a decision. Recently, it was officially acknowledged that the National Charter for Education and Training was a complete fiasco, for it failed to meet the major challenges facing the Moroccan educational system, including high unemployment and illiteracy. No punitive measures, however, have been taken against the Charter designers, including Mr. Abdelaziz Mazian Belafkih. Similarly, even though some Moroccan officials were accountable for kidnapping and torturing to death many a political detainee, none of them has been brought to trial and some are still in office today ! If Abbas el Fassi, the Moroccan prime minister, were in a democratic country, he would be behind bars. To illustrate this point, over 30 000 Moroccan youths, most of whom were university students, were victims of his false promise to find jobs for them when he was the minister of Employment and Vocational Trainng. His false promise cost each one of them nearly 2000 Moroccan Dirhams; even so, he was appointed prime minister ! The ever-rising prices of basic foodstuffs and the protests that some forgotten areas in Morocco have witnessed, including Sefrou, Sidi Ifni, and Zagora are important indicators of the failure of the National Intiative for Human Development, which was launched by the king Mohammed VI on 18 May 2005. None of those responsible, however, has been asked to even account for failure. I will conclude with a comment a close friend of mine made soon after reading these facts: “In true democracies, punitive laws apply to all citizens without exception, while in false democracies, punitive laws apply only to second-class citizens or “bouzabal” in Moroccan Arabic(darija). “I totally agree with you !” was my reaction to his comment. eng_jamal6@hotmail.com
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