Under the slogan “Mohamed Bensaïd Ait Ider… a symbol of steadfastness and struggle,” the Unified Socialist Party – Enchaden branch organized, on Saturday, a memorial service for the fighter Mohamed Bensaïd Ait Ider in his hometown of Tin Mansour roundabout (Enchaden community in the Chtouka Ait Baha province), in coordination with the party’s branches in the south. . The ceremony was attended by the party’s Secretary-General, Jamal Al-Asri, and Parliamentarian Nabila Munib, along with national, regional, regional and local leaders.
The speeches delivered on this occasion included a reminder of the deceased’s career and the various stations that marked his life, whether during the colonial period through his leadership of a number of armed struggle cells in the National Resistance Movement, or during his assumption of political responsibility for the Liberation Army in the South, after independence, and his political and party experience. Parliamentarianism, as well as his struggles and defense of Morocco’s territorial integrity in international forums.
Jamal Al-Asri, Secretary-General of the United Socialist Party, said in a speech that “the deceased Mujahid Mohamed Bensaïd Ait Ider instilled in us the value of loyalty, which we cannot talk about without remembering him. The death penalty was imposed on him, and despite denials and other things, and through his loyalty to the homeland, he remained loyal to his region, the Inchaden region, which he did not know because it was within the useless Morocco.
“Comrade Mohamed Ben Said made this region not only a partisan and national region, but also a regional, Arab and African region, where all eyes turned to Enchaden because it gave birth to this man, who made the region, its issues and the problems of its inhabitants always present in Parliament because he believed in loyalty and sincerity, and with his death it became… He lost his homeland, as he trusted the homeland, the youth, the children, and the elderly. He was a man like him,” the same speaker adds.
He continued, saying: “As for the other value that he instilled in us, it was contentment and honesty. The Mujahid Ben Said was faithful to values, principles, ideas, and money in a time when ambitions abounded, as he made sure that the resistance’s money was for the resistance, the party’s money was for the party, and the money of others was.” To others, he was content, honest, loyal, and loyal to his principles. He also continued to dream of true democracy and a Morocco of dignity, freedom, democracy, and social justice. He believed in these ideas and sacrificed for them.
As for the parliamentarian and former Secretary-General of the United Socialist Party, Nabila Mounib, she said, in her memorial speech at the Ten Mansour Center, that “the deceased Bensaïd was a patriot, and patriotism runs in his blood and in his genes, with the humility and high determination that requires it, so he remained involved in every battle, since if The Liberation Army was not disbanded. We would have closed the file of our southern provinces, and we would have liberated them without surrendering or selling the country in order for the other president to acknowledge to us that the proposal for self-rule was good, and we would have further liberated the entire country without accepting truncated independence.”
She stated, “Comrade Bensaïd fought at all stations inside and outside the country. He was a trustworthy man with high morals, fiercely defending Morocco’s unity in the darkest of times. He also constituted an exception in the Moroccan parliament, and the legislative institution has not witnessed, to this day, a parliamentarian like him.” He was a democrat above democracy. He always stood by popular issues and people’s concerns about land issues, plundering of wealth, water problems, etc. We hoped that his success in Parliament in 1984 would be the subject of lessons for young people in schools in order to engage in politics in its nobility and morals.”
Abdelaziz Koukas, the journalist writer, considered in his speech that Bensaid was “a symbol that rises above the party and the constituency, even if he is the son of Tin Mansour Bashtouka Ait Baha, the son of Souss, but he continued to struggle with a national horizon, and he was the one who always created warmth in politics, and by losing him we lose A man who cannot be repeated in Moroccan times, in which we have come to see quasi-leaders and quasi-people who claim to fight corruption. He linked honesty in political practice, moral honesty, and honesty in the relationship between his comrades and the constituency he represented, and he was its constant mouthpiece, working more than the parliamentary teams that had the capabilities did.”
Koukas said, “The issues that Bensaïd was raising created a stir in Moroccan politics. How did he dare ask a question about Tazmamart? Another Morocco, another generation, and other questions were born. A large file was opened in the field of human rights, which gave a lot of warmth to Moroccan politics. Bensaïd gathered in it.” What differentiated him from others was that he was a resistor, a fighter, a struggler, a democrat, a socialist, and a progressive. He did not abandon any of these parts, and he did not betray the cause and always kept the covenant. He had an audible voice and a bright face in foreign relations. He also had the morals of national secrecy to preserve the organization’s secrets. “He was transparent and believed in people’s right to information.”
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2024-04-21 11:24:21
