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A4 pamphlet introduction.

"You can feel from her rough and ready handshake that she is used to handling stones. She has been handling and throwing them for a whole year now. Her voice, too, has a rough edge as she leans into the car with a guffaw: "Hey, this lot is from the security forces." Just a joke, maybe, but a reminder to us journalists in the car that she is ready for anything.
Her name is Tassadit. Everyone in Kabylia has heard of Tassadit from Azazga. She has made a place and a name for herself among the lads in the street battles fought against the gendermes in Azazga. As often as not, she has led them.
This cheery, plump-cheeked teenager is a figure of the Kabyle Black Spring of April 2001 and plainly proud of having held the street against gun-toting grown-up security forces..."
- Reporter El Kadi Ihsane, upon arrival in Azazga on April 26, 2002, the first anniversary of the death of 6 young people shot by paramilitary gendarmes in that town.

Firestarter Press, 2004.

Product Code: YOUP737658