WHEREAS on 25 June 1998 Lounès Matoub, a famous Algerian Amazigh (Berber) singer, whose work has been featured on CD at past Talossa get-togethers, was shot dead by Islamic terrorists, who also seriously injured his wife and his sisters-in-law in the attack; and
WHEREAS Lounès Matoub was murdered because he was a human rights campaigner and defender of the rights of the Imazighen (Berbers) to their culture, who spoke out against the Islamist terrorists who are massacring thousands of innocent people in Algeria;
THEREFORE the Ziu hereby, in order to honour his memory and denounce his cowardly assassination, condemns armed Islamic terrorist groups in Algeria and elsewhere, and officially expresses Talossa's national disgust with expansionist, political Islam, which has resulted in millions of deaths over more than a thousand years of shame.
Ureu q'estadra så,
Ben Madison (PC-Vuode)