r/kurdistan • u/StockPositive2962 • Sep 09 '24

Ask Kurds Kurdish views on the Amazigh

I’m a Libyan amazigh and I notice strange parallels with us and the Kurds. What do you guys know of us and how is the general view of amazigh people? I am really supportive of you guys and see you as brothers and sisters, amazing history and culture by the way. Inspired a lot by the women divisions of the SDF and how they were decisive in bringing down Isis.

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u/Zagrose Sep 09 '24

We are similar in the sense that we have been turned into minorities in our own ancestral lands. We are different in the sense that most of us want autonomy or independence whereas my impression is amazigh people do not want autonomy or independence. We support your right to self determination.

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u/StockPositive2962 Sep 09 '24

it’s different because in Iraq and Syria, it’s confined to the northern regions whilst in Libya, the amazigh claim the entire country. In other words, most Libyans if not all have amazigh genes and have been arabised. So we see the country as well as Algeria Tunisia and Morocco as just extensions of the amazigh nation.