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Some 1,028 NGOs from the Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra and Dakhla-Oued Eddahab regions sent a letter to the President of the UN Security Council, Ambassador Abdou Abarry, in which they refer to the heavy toll of Polisario and Algeria in terms of human rights violations, while stressing the "normal character" of the human rights situation in the southern provinces of the Kingdom.

"Algeria and Polisario both have a heavy record in terms of massive violations of human rights and human dignity as well as the immoral and abject manipulation of the suffering of our sisters and brothers" in the camps of Tindouf in Algeria, Sahrawi NGOs active in the fields of human rights and development in the Moroccan Sahara.


The sequestered people in Tindouf are used by Polisario and Algeria, as "tools of political blackmail, which deprives these two parties of any credibility" in the matter, said these non-governmental organizations in this letter.


"As Saharawi organizations operating freely on their soil and in their country, Morocco, we underline the normal nature of the human rights situation in the Moroccan Sahara", they affirm, noting that they are working "in a promising context and that we also have an area of freedom governed by an evolving and credible legal and institutional framework".


They also express their “deep concern” and “firm condemnation” of the “deplorable conditions of our brothers and sisters in the Tindouf camps in Algeria, where tens of thousands of innocent civilians have been for more than four decades in an abnormal situation, in places which are beyond any real legal scope of protection, in the absence of conditions or guarantees to ensure to these besieged populations the preservation of their dignity and their rights”.


The presidents of these NGOs regret the fact that the populations of Tindouf are left at the mercy of "an irresponsible armed group itself being hostage to objectives and plans which exclusively serve the interests of Algeria, guilty and accomplice of this terrible human tragedy ", regret the presidents of these NGOs.


While qualifying this situation as an "anomaly", these NGOs say that in July 2018, the Human Rights Committee (CHR) expressed its concern at Algeria's contempt for its obligations and responsibilities in accordance with the requirements of international human rights and international humanitarian law, by placing its judicial powers in the hands of the Polisario.




CDH also expressed concern about the inability of Sahrawi victims of human rights violations in the Tindouf camps to access remedies and justice in the courts of the state party, the letter said.


Sahrawi NGOs point out that the testimonies of Sahrawi survivors have reported thousands of victims following summary and extrajudicial executions, arbitrary arrests and enforced disappearances, torture and rape, which have affected men, women and even children by separatist militias.


In addition, they denounce the adoption by the Polisario, like its Algerian godfather, of a contradictory approach to the question of human rights, which they use for political ends and see it only as propaganda and pressure to promote their separatist project While broadcasting an offensive propaganda speech against Morocco and promoting false allegations on the human rights situation in the Moroccan Sahara, Polisario and Algiers paradoxically refrain from providing the most basic data on the human rights situation humans in the Tindouf camps.


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