The Collective of Families of Disappeared and Sequestered Moroccans in the Tindouf prisons organised a sit-in on Thursday in front of the headquarters of the National Human Rights Council in Rabat to denounce and reveal the human rights violations perpetrated by the Algerian regime and the Polisario against Moroccans, in particular the sequestered people of Tindouf.

This sit-in, which saw the participation of associative actors and former sequestered people of Tindouf, comes within the framework of a national and international action plan aimed at exposing the human rights violations perpetrated by the Algerian regime and the Polisario against Moroccan civilians and military personnel.

"Through this sit-in, the families of those sequestered in the Tindouf jails show their loyalty and attachment to territorial integrity", declared the president of the Collective of Families of Disappeared and Sequestered Moroccans in the Tindouf penitentiaries, Miloud Khalil, to MAP. The latter noted the importance of supporting civil society and consolidating its role in parallel diplomacy, with a view to enlightening international public opinion on the human rights violations committed in the Tindouf camps.

For his part, Mohamed Ouadahi Ben Mohammed Salem, a former Polisario detainee, made it known that the time has come to inform the United Nations and human rights activists of the situation prevailing in the Tindouf camps.

Mr. Ouadahi, who is from the Oulad Bousbaa tribe of the Moroccan Sahara, revealed the tortures he had suffered himself and which are inflicted with impunity on detainees, specifying that some sequestered people have died without their families being able to recover their remains.

He affirmed, in this regard, the involvement of the Algerian regime in these violations, adding that the Moroccan proposal for autonomy for the Southern provinces is the only political solution to the artificial conflict over the Sahara.

For her part, the wife of a disappeared person from the Sahara war evoked the suffering of the families of the disappeared who wish, at least, to know the fate of their offspring, calling on the Algerian regime to assume its responsibilities in the matter.

The Collective of Families of Disappeared and Sequestered Moroccans in the Tindouf prisons organised a meeting on October 25 to shed light on the suffering of the victims of human rights violations committed by the Polisario in the Tindouf camps and to present testimonies from some victims and their families.

The participants in this meeting highlighted the flagrant human rights violations, calling on international organisations to act urgently to put an end to these criminal acts.

The Polisario is a separatist movement created, hosted, and financed by Algeria since 1975. This mercenary movement hinders any solution to the conflict over the Moroccan Sahara and all efforts for economic and security integration at the level of the Arab Maghreb region.