“Algeria continues to wrongly mention human rights in the Moroccan Sahara, as it has no credibility to do so since it systematically violates them back home,” said Hassane Boukili, Acting Chargé d’Affairs in Geneva in response to a statement by the Algerian Ambassador before the Human Rights Council (HRC).
In his speech at the general debate of the Council on the report of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Algerian ambassador called the HRC to “pay particular attention to the protection of human rights in the Sahara.”
“Due to its involvement as a party to this dispute, Algeria is anything but an observer. It has been involved since 1976, politically, diplomatically and financially for a separatist project in South of Morocco,” said the Moroccan diplomat.
The Algerian ambassador, he pointed out, "contradicts itself when it claims the protection of human rights in the Moroccan Sahara, while Algeria violates the home."
"The repression in Kabylia, violence and discrimination Ghardaya and violations in Tindouf camps continue to break the chronic national, regional and international," said the diplomat.
"Ambassador of Algeria also contradicted when draws attention to human rights in the Moroccan Sahara, while the country remains the only closed to UN human rights mechanisms rights and international NGOs Maghreb countries "Has he still observed.
It was in this context recalled the joint letter last February by five international NGOs to the Algerian government, which they deplore his "refusal for many years to issue entry visas to NGO Human Rights and persistence to obstruct local activists. "
Regarding violations in Tindouf camps, the international responsibility of Algeria is full, direct and imprescriptible, given its international obligations under the international law of human rights and international refugee law.
"The Algerian ambassador knowingly fails his country opened its office within the council by January 5, 2014 murder of two young Sahrawis to the Algerian-Mauritanian border." "This killing is indicative of some cases with Algeria because of human rights in general and the right to life in particular populations used in the Tindouf camps," he has argued.
"No offense to the Algerian delegation, the success of the visit of Navi Pillay, High Commissioner for Human Rights in Morocco is the best answer to the calumnies of the Algerian diplomacy in the Moroccan Sahara," said the diplomat.
He said that the Algerian ambassador tries to soak the Member States when he quotes the report of the Secretary-General of the UN and deliberately obscures the resolution of the Security Council last April which welcomed the role of national institutions Human Rights in the Sahara. The text of the resolution "is totally separate recommendations of the report quoted the ambassador," he has said.
"I understand the deep frustration of the Algerian delegation, because after the resolution of the Security Council and the visit to Morocco Navi Pillay, she feels free fall and tries vainly to cling to anything," said Hassane Boukili. But has he noted, "this is a harsh reality that the maneuvers of the Algerian delegation can not change or challenge."
He likewise said that the visit to Morocco Navi Pillay took place in a context of major democratic reforms, openness and cooperation with UN human rights mechanisms Rights as evidenced observations after his visit. In contrast, he noted, "his visit to Algeria in 2011 occurred amid ongoing closure to special procedures, prohibition of international NGOs and total resignation with regard to violations of human Rights in the Tindouf camps. "
The diplomat said that "Morocco, cited by several UN bodies and human rights mechanisms reports, exports its experience in transitional justice, while Algeria always afraid to open the folder thousands cases of enforced disappearances ".
"No offense to the Algerian ambassador, Morocco and its institutions assume full responsibility for the promotion and protection of human rights throughout its territory north and south of the Kingdom," has he added.
It is, according to the diplomat, democratic national choices initiated by HM King Mohammed VI and supported by all the forces of the nation. "This is also a strong reality posturing of the Algerian delegation can not challenge," he has said.
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