Education staff, victims of Algeria tragedy ask for reintegration

Algerian education personnel including teachers, workers, and proctors dismissed for terror charges presented a petition to President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to decide again in their 27,000 Algerian dinars compensations as part of the Charter for Peace and National Reconciliation.

• The staff complains that their unemployment allowance will finish in 2009’s summer especially that most of them are responsible for families.
• The education employees who were prosecuted for belonging to the banned-Islamic Salvation party or not denouncing a terrorist group say “they are not terrorists.”
• In a meeting with some of their representatives, they complained of non-approval on their reintegration or compensation. “The law is clear and it does not exclude any one who meets all reintegration conditions.”
• Earlier, the staff wrote to the head of Human Rights body in Algeria to handle their problems. They were promised to solve them.
• According to a close source, those persons were acquitted and they are due to be reintegrated into their positions.
• A total of 1,200 employees in Algeria were dismissed between 1995 and 1997.
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