To underpin the assessment established in its report about the situation of Human Rights the camps. The international organization put online a video of moving testimony of one of the victims of these practices of bygone days.
In this recording entitled “a case of modern slavery” HRW gives the floor to Salem Bilal Mohamed Salem , who asserted to be kidnapped and separated from his family when he was four years old.
Salem Bilal , who is now a young man is saddened by the endured experiences , describes how he was “ forced to work during 18 years without any compensation”.
He remembers how slavers of modern times pulled him from his mother, in order to be subject to enslavement, instead of going to school, or to live with his family who will take care of his needs. On the contrary he was thrown into servitude.
They forced me to work as a shepherd. The food was bad. they have prevented me to go to school or to visit my parents “ Salem Bilal who was able to regain his freedom during summer 2013 , after 18 years of slavery , remembers with bitterness the “ worse conditions” of his sequestration, he regrets not to be able to have a normal life like persons of his age.
In his report entitled “footstep on the screens : Human Rights in the Refugee camps of Tindouf “made public in Algiers , HRW asserted to have noticed that “ some forms of slavery remains in the camps” explaining that” victims in several cases are sahraouis who have dark skins, and that slavery takes particularly the form of non voluntary domestic work .
The international organization urges in this respect the Polisario front “ to double its efforts in order to eradicate the vestiges of slavery”.
- News concerning Western Sahara issue /Corcas