As Strong As Aok Tree

collecting acorns from Aok tree, a symlolic gesture coming from deeprooted culture. Today along side our society’s bulging   people,  old mom’s fire side stories tall pops up again amid a seemingly like landscape of the start of the armed struggle,

At the time when war flared up , Kids were we, all gathered around to hear from elders the D-day of first bullet shot in the air, heralding the beginning of a seven year long fire arms cracking. Facing a modern powerfull NATO forces, the Algerian fighters feed up in hardnocking way had nothing but a striking force to go with.

The mastering of the home battlefield, an secret vision of versing into natural ressources, so to make things happen. As midnight ringed up, gloomy sky ornamented with flaring red flamed bullet put day light  back in place, just the time to look back at  the second world war.

That was it, Aok tree acones got to be served all the way around, well grinded, and pastered into home made bread, or  acones made couscous, At stone trowing distance from moudjahedine quarters, Frenh military barracks, taken by an all out surprise, rise up hands for the first POW’s french bataillon.

The story flashes in, making of the 4th french Republic a sense of temper loosing, by attacking innocent villages and killing of peoples and children. The scenery was horrible, No backward to make, the algerian armed forces have so far crossed the ” rubicon “. The war has by then turned at the advantage of the moudjahidine,

Somewhere somehow, collumns of Algerian fighters went on visiting wounded peoples, sharing with them the mastermind acones made couscous This  traditional gathering, has once more revealed an extraordinary linkeage beteen the people and the revolution. Back down the urban area, the war had smelt of burning zone area, tortures and killing at random was the daylife of the French Paratroopers. but resilience was there, in the ” least but not the last go ” a big move thundered around the corner, the Casbah of Algiers cames to make step ahead in having all the algerian students joining in  the revolution,.

A non return march, some months to go, Paris could yet resist the other part of the revolution by the algerian FLN federtion, the two very exalting armed attacks in morpian against colonial industrial sites have shifts France into a war collapsed country, The story of acorns Aok tree has indeed  marked the long journey of a hard heading revolution

Mohamed Ben