Thus, cleric Jean Abboud called on Tuesday the opening of an international investigation on "torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment" in Tindouf, Algeria namely abductions and disappearances, arrests, detentions and kidnapping, torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treating, genocide and violence against women ".
Cleric Abboud who described the suffering of a victim, a Mauritanian national, Abdel Jalil Ould Khouna, imprisoned from 1983 to 1988, now a survivor of the camps and, in addition to having lost the use of his right arm, lives "psychologically in indescribable pain day and night," said cleric Abboud who was approached by the victim in 2008 during his stay in Nouakchott, seeking his intervention to shed light on the treatment he suffered with 35 members of his tribe.
The Belgian Catholic cleric said that in this respect, having deposited at the UN a report on this story and "many others", request compensation for the victims and bringing to justice those responsible for torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment which will save thousands of victims and families of the disappeared.
Cleric Jean Abboud has likewise expressed his "support and blessing to efforts by the international community to end the conflict over the Sahara and the autonomy plan that was endorsed in Resolutions 1813 and 1871 of Security Council. "
For his part the Chairman of a British NGO, the International Committee for Tindouf Prisoners, Lord Francis Newell, called for the release of kidnapped people in Tindouf, Algeria.
These people are «prisoners in concentration camps in tents," said Lord Newell, noting that "as long as they will are no freed nothing can be resolved.
"When they are free, they can decide their choice of destination," he added, saying the time had come for the UN to put an end to violations of human rights in Tindouf .
The NGO President of ""Action Internationale Femmes", Ms. Latifa Aït-Baala, called for imposing the application of the statutory obligations of the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) for the populations sequestered in Tindouf, Algeria.
"It is time the international community requires the application of statutory requirements of the UNHCR and requires the identification of people. It is time that the principle of voluntary return is guaranteed," said Ms. Aït-Baala, who was speaking before the Fourth Committee of the General Assembly of the United Nations.
Today, she added, "by risking their life that some refugees have chosen to return home, including senior leaders of Polisario, even founding members of this movement.
For the President of Action Internationale Femmes", based in Belgium, it is "time that the integrity of people in camps is fully preserved and practice of rape and abuse against girls and women, child exploitation, organ trafficking and illegal trafficking of all kinds should end. These practices criticized by the media and international organizations require international investigations.
Source: MAP
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