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Tindouf : women and children hopeless case worries humanitarian organizations |
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Written by Abdelhak Kettani
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Thursday, 05 August 2010 11:58 |
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Precarious life conditions of women and children deprived of their most basic rights and sequestrated by the Polisario armed militia in Tindouf camps, are making more and more anxious the human rights NGO. New calls were made in the same context, in the beginning of August by Moroccan and regional NGO. They asked the international community and the UNO bodies to put pressure on the Polisario leadership and Algeria as the country hosting these camps so that these women and children may get back their right to move. The Africa Liberal Network which organized a workshop on gender, in Hammamet, in Tunisia, has asked on Sunday 1st August, for the unconditional release of these women and children and the respect of their legitimate rights.
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Tindouf: Young people, forced to enlist in the army, flew into a towering rage |
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Written by Abdelhak Kettani
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Wednesday, 07 July 2010 12:33 |
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Tindouf camps’ populations are getting more angry. The reasons of such an agitation are due to the arrest of a group of fifty fugitives who have lately tried to join Morocco through Mauritania, led by the son of one of the Polisario leaders. At the same time, a demonstration was being prepared to protest against the forced enlistment of Sahrawi students who came back from Cuba, which made the Polisario leadership decree a state of maximum alert, especially that a delegation representing Human Rights Watch was expected to pay a visit to Tindouf camps. For this purpose, the Polisario militias have received the precious help of the Algerian military intelligence services (DRS), who immediately sent a commission to the camps in order to ease the young students’ rage.
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Tindouf: All voices condemn the present chaos in the camps |
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Written by Abdelhak Kettani
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Friday, 25 June 2010 09:04 |
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Why not a Maghreb investigation committee about the serious violations and the inhuman treatments undergone everyday by thousands of Sahrawis living in Tindouf? Such a committee would be more credible, with the advantage of representing the Maghreb countries and will thus conduct an internal enquiry to reveal the untold in an issue opposing Morocco and Algeria, two neighbouring countries. This is a proposal from the Moroccan League of Human Rights (LMDDH), whose announcement coincides with the celebration, on 26 June, of the International Day against Torture. Taking this opportunity, the League reiterates its rejection and condemnation of torture perpetrated against civilians in Tindouf, only because they have expressed their opinion. Also, the League has called the NGOs defending human rights to intercede with Algeria in order to put an end to this kind of abuses and conduct international penal prosecutions against those who committed these crimes. The same grievances and recriminations have been expressed in Italy, especially in the regions of Toscana and Lombardy. A delegation of Sahrawis, including former Polisario leaders, has denounced atrocious living conditions inflicted for more than thirty years to thousands of Sahrawis in Tindouf.
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Amnesty : Polisario and Algiers responsible for human rights violations in Tindouf |
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Written by Abdelhak Kettani
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Thursday, 10 June 2010 11:08 |
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Amnesty International has accused Polisario to be responsible for the impunity from which have benefitted the perpetrators of human rights violations committed, during the 70s and 80s, in Tindouf camps, in the South-West of Algeria. The International Organization for Human Rights which has presented its 2010 annual report, on Tuesday, in Rabat, has also pointed the Algerian executives refusing access for NGO to investigate about repeated human rights abuses and violations in Tindouf camps. Thus, the NGO based in London has requested that « the Algerian authorities show more collaboration by allowing Amnesty International to investigate about abuses committed by Polisario during the 70s and 80s ». This call addressed to Algeria is the last one of a series of procedures, undertaken in vain by international NGO, to have access to Sahrawi camps located on the Algerian territory. Already in 2009, HRW had claimed its « preoccupation about the human rights situation in Tindouf camps », an area qualified by the American Organization of being « isolated and subject to a strict control ».
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