The rally was organized by the Democratic Breton Coordination on December 8th. Last September the same civical movement attracted 4,000 people in Nantes. The demonstrators claimed for a Democratic Referendum to decide if the southern Loire Atlantique region wants to unite, again, with the rest of Brittany. For the last 77 years, Brittany has been undergoing an administrative
partition imposed by the government of Vichy in 1941, which has thus separated
the Loire-Atlantique region from Brittany. This discretionary separation
gave birth to a regional assembly called “Pays de la Loire” which is
responsible for continuous identity and cultural alienation, most
probably unique among the democratic European States.
In the name of this artificial identity, the Government does its best to progressively eradicate the Breton culture from our region. For instance : teaching Breton language and culture has disappeared from the syllabus at Nantes University, television programs are no longer broadcast in Breton on channel 3 and the prohibition to broadcast facing the private channel, TV Breizh...
Last but not least : the project of the Minister of Justice to close down the judiciary unit of Brittany in June 2007, which was suspended only because the Breton jurists strongly denounced the identity alienation process put on our population in our region by sending a letter to the President of the Republic.
It is yet the same artificial identity which is promoted in the various schools to the young people in order to “cultivate” the “ identité ligérienne” (school festivals, regional council of the youngsters).
By these means, the Bretons, like all Democrats, cannot conceive any longer that such a community, which has been overwhelmingly rejected by the population of Loire-Atlantique, can carry on with its discriminations towards their inhabitants.
The PDF document “Discriminations” : Brittany : an imposed partition, a denied identity (8.5 Mo, 46 pages) is available below. For
the moment it is only in French, except a few parts, like annex 9, page
38, which translation is below, as an example, in full text and also
in PDF (1 page).
In the name of this artificial identity, the Government does its best to progressively eradicate the Breton culture from our region. For instance : teaching Breton language and culture has disappeared from the syllabus at Nantes University, television programs are no longer broadcast in Breton on channel 3 and the prohibition to broadcast facing the private channel, TV Breizh...
Last but not least : the project of the Minister of Justice to close down the judiciary unit of Brittany in June 2007, which was suspended only because the Breton jurists strongly denounced the identity alienation process put on our population in our region by sending a letter to the President of the Republic.
It is yet the same artificial identity which is promoted in the various schools to the young people in order to “cultivate” the “ identité ligérienne” (school festivals, regional council of the youngsters).
By these means, the Bretons, like all Democrats, cannot conceive any longer that such a community, which has been overwhelmingly rejected by the population of Loire-Atlantique, can carry on with its discriminations towards their inhabitants.
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