 The terror installed by separatists in Tindouf camps arouses indignation from civil society organizations in Laâyoune asking Algeria to assume its legal and moral responsibility by stopping massive violations of human rights committed on its territory by Polisario.
The independent Human Rights Network denounced the “systematic” violations of the rights of people sequestered in Tindouf, the latest of which was the conviction of an innocent septuagenarian to 5 years in prison, to divert the attention of public opinion to the collusion between “Polisario” drug trafficking and organized crime networks.
This NGO is concerned in a statement sent to the MAP of the “silence” observed by the international community and human rights organizations in the face of the wave of repression against opponents in Lahmada camps, asking “Polisario” to respect the rights of expression, movement and fair trial of Moroccan citizens of Sahrawi origin.
The network urges Algeria to exert pressure on its puppet to stop this bloody repression against people in its territory.The Sahara Observatory for Peace, Democracy and Human Rights vigorously protests against the arbitrary trials and arrests of bloggers, journalists and human rights activists recently carried out by “Polisario” militias to silence any opposition to their suicidal policy.
"This is an unprecedented revolt against corruption, embezzlement of humanitarian aid and unique thought that reigns in these camps," observatory president Aicha Duihi told MAP that the climate of “Revolt” is the result of absence of any prospect of solution to the ordeal endured by the sequestered, due to the refusal by separatists of any serious offer to settle the dispute over the Sahara issue.
She invited Algeria, which delegated authority to the Polisario over part of its territory, to assume its moral and legal responsibility by putting an end to the repeated attacks on human rights and the physical integrity of the opponents, journalists and human rights activists committed on its territory, urging the international community to exert pressure on Algiers to honor its obligations under the Charter of the United Nations and international law.
The Sahara League for Democracy and Human Right castigated “the climate of fear and terror” that reigns over the “old guard” of the Polisario in the Tindouf camps, denying the rights of expression, movement and freely choose their rulers.
In a statement to the MAP, the president of the League, Hamada El Bihi recalls the wave of enforced disappearances and arbitrary arrests that have targeted opponents and human rights activists in the camps in recent weeks.
Once arrested, these people are victims of unfair trials in so-called military courts in violation of international law and conventions, said El Bihi, himself victim of forcible confinement in Tindouf and deportation in Cuba and Venezuela.
After deploring the lack of reaction on the part of international organizations to the repression which has been erected as a form of governance in the camps, president of the Sahara League for Democracy and Human Rights called Algerian state to assume its obligations for the protection of people sequestered, insofar as its military trials and its massive violations of human rights take place on its territory, and to be involved in the search for a solution to this dispute on the basis of the autonomy proposed by Morocco to put an end to the sufferings of the sequestered population.
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