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Field workshops in three villages in Fayoum Governorate About The Egyptian peasant rights after the revolution of January 25

The Land Center for Human Rights held some workshops on Thursday, 03/03/2011 in a number of villages in the province of Fayoum and as the Center believes in the importance of the presence among the peasants and vision problems from which they suffer because the problems of the countryside despite the similarity but that every place of privacy and problems unique to the for one reason or another The aim of the workshops to define the peasants of their right to organize and role of trade unions to defend their interests and address the various problems faced by Egyptian farmer at various levels and what it represents of particular importance in the coming period and the massage moved a group of the land centre represented by Mr. Karam Saber, the center manager and Professor Abdullah Al maamoon , a researcher in the center and Professor Dalia Emara, the workshops and seminars coordinator moved to the province of Fayoum, the first station was the village of El walaa, which is also known as El khodr village which is inhabited by 2000 families and the village suffers from a number of important problems but the most important problem facing the people is that living in this area are mainly families affected by the regulating law of the relationship between the landlord and the tenant and the village has two categories of the population, the first category are The harmed "They are the indigenous people for whom the land was given and the second category are those who bought from the harmed and the problem is that the obsolete government returned to demand farmers of the land price again, even though they are considered owners to these lands, received them as compensation for their expulsion from agricultural land after the Land Law 1997 Upon arrival to the village the land centre at noon the parents squabbled over their share of assessed bread. After that scene, the land centre called the people of the village assembly to hold a meeting to resolve the problem and the pool of parents in the village mosque and began meeting Karam Saber spoke pointing out that the village suffers from a large and fundamental problems which require the people of the village of the Union and planning to solve them, including, for example the problem talk time and cause of the current dispute is bread Since this topic the problem is urgent and intolerable delay then postpone mean hunger parents and children, the solution must be immediate, fast and boils down to in the Federation of Parents and their attitude by officials of the Ministry of Supply and demands for the provision of share enough of their bread, because this of their right to live and feed their children, which is the highest right of all the most powerful and the right to live and it is their right to require a mass resistance from the people to achieve their rights He also explained that the right to claim what is already enough, not only their share of assessments made it clear that the largest share of residents is 15 loaf of how this topic is enough to share a large family and three meals a day, especially as there are families, numbering more than ten people He also stressed that the people responsible for the persistence of the officials ignoring and starving because of the negative ness and non-resistance and stressed on the need to pursue our interests and rights of human life and there is right dies while someone is asking for it. For example in the village of El koota that defied injustice and oppression for years and regained its territory after that stolen from them by force and was forced to sign waivers of their land and assured them that their rights will not return as they sat in the village did not pose a union or the delegation to put pressure by the officials stressed that they must unite to achieve demands in life and the bread requirement first and then claim a list of basic needs, including the legitimate demands of the public to the people of the village are: - Estate farmers cultivate the land on which they live and what was reportedly drained them unlawfully
- Bring down the debt of Bank for Agricultural Development
- The problem of power cuts
- The problem of pollution and the disruption of drinking water
- Run the hospital and health care
- Providing teachers and a decent educational level
Then he talked about the need of farmers to have someone to represent them to speak on their behalf, and solves the problems that repeat similar to many of them in all the governorates of Egypt to ease the suffering of the farmer and the hope to achieve a dignified life After that the group moved to the village of Mousa, near to the village of El walaa or El khodr, which shares it in the share of bread and therefore the problem. Upon arrival to the village, the land centre had a meeting with a group of parents in the house of one of them. The workshop was begun with a speech by Mr. Abdullah Al maamoon about the problems that the residents suffer from in the two villages and the need to act to stop the suffering of the people. He pointed at the lack of agreement or disputes between them that distract them from the real to hold those responsible for their suffering at all levels and stressed the need to take it to my friend, I have numerous of its common interest and the interests of the two villages, including that one must be to unite to solve He also stressed on the importance and necessity of the presence of their representatives and talk about their problems which is why the necessity of forming a union and called on them the need to take urgent action to regulate the rights and stressed the need to participate in solving their problems and demand a decent and SAFE life. The third and final station of the land centre was the village of Qasr El basel, a village that suffers from several problems, like any Egyptian village, but the basic problem shared by people of the village as a whole, which threatens their stability is the problem of conflict on the territory of the State has bought land from Arab Bedouin and paid the price of money and race It plots a simple residential or agriculture in pursuit of securing a living for themselves and their children then they were surprised that this topic occupied land is state property, and after years of residence in the land, whether for housing or agriculture were demanded by the state to pay the value of land in the form of premiums burdens imposed upon them due to the simplicity of their income and lack of resourcefulness The session began with the first and talked Abdullah Al maamoon policies unfair for farmers, which the State exercised against him for long periods of time in order to exploit and sucking his blood free of charge, and trading rights from the prices of seed - non-content, which may be corrupt and cost peasant agriculture profile - and chemotherapy, and continuing to exploit and take crop less than actual value, the agriculture was expensive Prices World cheap but demanded to know the international prices of the role or chemical or other does not find the answer him, which leaves him no way to pay its debts or to live a decent life and access to a crisis of water for irrigation and the use of unclean water, which led to a dramatic increase in the number of patients with renal failure, which a lot of them die due to poor health care and the value of treatment for high-income simple farmer, while treated ministers and their families in the former regime at the expense of the State which is a country farmer, but he also has no right to them!!!
Al maamoon assured that the people exploded and went out to declare the revolution on 25th of January after the darkness and corruption was spreading in the country. He said that this time the people were aware, strong, arranged and civilized. and said that This time the people were conscious and very strong and organized with one slogan which is (change... freedom... social justice) He emphasized that the response of the Ministry of Interior was not at the level of prosperity enjoyed by the rebels have crossed the internal troops wild and rubber bullets, smoke bombs and sniper fire in the face of peaceful demonstrations, the demands are legitimate for the barbarity and brutality revealed the ugly face of the Interior on the eyes and ears of the world He also stressed that the main reason for the success of the revolution is the insistence of the rebels and adhere to their position and their attachment to their demands, despite the length of the wait and the difficulty of the events and bloody, which led to the sequence of events from the change of government to appoint a vice and access to achieve the revolution is the central plank of the reform is the president stepping down
Then the second session began and Ms. Dalia Emara spoke and began her speech by emphasizing the importance of awareness of our common interests and the need to come together for the common good She also stressed that the Centre had filed a lawsuit for the village so that residents from owning land on which they live and the land they cultivate as the land of El Fayoum is for its people and the land of Qasr El basel village is for its people too, and not for corrupt remaining tails of the former regime who stole the wealth of our country and destroyed the country.
Then she asked the people to take a positive step because there is no lost right while someone asks for it. She also asked the audience to organize themselves and organize groups of 10 or 15 people seeking each group in a direction. Then she talked about their right to organize and the need to be represented by an organization to defend their interests.
At the end, Karam Saber, the manager of the land centre asked the audience to organize themselves and the establishment of an association to defend their interests and protect their rights in decent living.
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