Draft:Ahmed nazar Barim

The Sukri people are a distinct small Imazighen group from the Northen,kabylie regions and Atlas regions near the border in both Morocco and Algeria, as well as small populations in Tunisia who broke off from Chleuh/Ishelhien groups. The Sukris were farmers and herders who made beautiful pottery, and enameled, silver, coral and turquoise jewelry. The oldest pieces of evidence of the Sukram people are documents and papers written in the mid 1400s and early 1500s by Numidian writers and leaders in what is now Algeria and Morocco. In 1812 due to the constant want by Southern and Northern Sukris for their own territory and ruling came a shared territory of what today is considered about 5 acres of land shared between the Sukris and Kabyles{stories, pictures and land documents from Tusman Almady's and Maya Azagury's families}. From the early 1830s until July 5th, 1962 France annexed Algeria stealing large portions of land, r@ping and killing women and children, destroying over 8,000 villages(3 of which were predominately Sukri),killing anywhere from 1 million to 1,500,000 people and leaving at least 2.4 million Algerians to relocate to camps and or flee the country. During this time about 5,300 Sukris fled to Egypt, Tunisia, the USA, and many other countries, with another estimated 1,000 Sukris killed or forced into refugee camps. Many Sukrams were also forced to take on French identity and to assimilate to French culture, and beliefs, some were even given French documents. During this time many Sukri and other Algerian documents were destroyed and or changed by aggressors and extremists {From elders who were forced to take on French citizenship and give up their Sukri identity such as 96 year old Maya Azagury]. Today there are only 3,000 to 3,500 Sukris worldwide,the largest population being in the USA.Many of them have forgotten about their culture and traditions.To this day we have been forgotten by much of the world.