Monday, January 31, 2011

Algeria also wants regime change

Thousands of people demonstrated in Bejaia, east of Algiers, in Kabylia, for "regime change" in Algeria, following the convening of an opposition party, organizers said. The demonstrators answered the call of the Meeting for Culture and Democracy (RCD), and quietly marched through the streets of Bejaia.

"The event brought together more than 10 000 people," said the president of the RCD, Said Sadi. The protesters shouted slogans inspired by recent events in Tunisia. Many shouted "a radical change of regime", according to a senator of the RCD, Mohamed Ikahervan. A march to demand "the departure of the system" is scheduled for February 12 in Algiers, convened by the newly formed National Coordination for Change and Democracy, which groups opposition movements and civil society organizations.

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