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[QUOTE]Originally posted by alTakruri: [QB] Here's part of a private correspondance I had with an Amazigh activist eight years ago and on whom I based my statement about the officer being Egyptian. =============================================== [QUOTE][i] The matter of the Harratin has always been subject to controversy. While they were seen for a long time as late comers to the area, some of the most recent findings are suggesting the opposite. The "Blackness" of the Haratin has never been in contention. Even in early history of Morocco, the fact that a deputy of the Egyptian General began to enlist them as soldiers of an all Black Army created a huge debate among the Moroccans, who did not consider them of the same "social category" as the Sudanese, and protest arose because they were "free human beings" and not of the "slave" category susceptible to be rounded up for this Corps of Black slave-soldiers. It created a great stir among "Berbers."[/i] [/QUOTE]This was a precision to something the Amazigh activist had earlier wrote on a guarded forum: [QUOTE][i] Imazighen (Berbers) ... are related by language to the Tuaregs of the Sahara and sub-Sahara [.] Even the Black Harratine people of the northern Sahara have recently yielded DNA which makes them closer to Berbers of North Africa than to other neighboouring Black groups. This parentage is also verifiable through language.[/i] [/QUOTE]============================================== [/QB][/QUOTE]
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