Association of Polisario victims unveils inhuman treatment in prisons
Morocco-Algeria, Politics, 4/19/2002

The Amsterdam-based association of the victims of human rights violations by the "Polisario" spoke about "the massacres and inhuman violations perpetrated in the separatists' prisons against the Moroccan Sahrawis who reject the idea to partition the Moroccan Sahara or severe it from the homeland, Morocco."

Chairman of the association, Dahi Akadi, said Wednesday at a press conference the Algerian-backed "Polisario" is implementing a strategy of terrorism and repression, founded on the liquidation of persons, groups and tribes who said no to separation from the homeland and who opposed the idea to partition the Sahara (put forward by Algeria).

Akadi showed the press photos and a list of the names of the polisario torture victims and insisted on Algeria's direct involvement in the sufferings caused to the Sahrawis, through the backing it extends to the separatists at the economic, political and security levels.

The association chairman said that when Algeria realized that the Sahrawis had grown aware of the groundless thesis of the separatists, it intensified maneuvers, through the entity it fabricated, to finally propose the partition of the Moroccan Sahara.

Spokesman for the association, Mohamed Lamine Yahia, surveyed the efforts made by the association to inform the international public opinion on the reality in the Tindouf camps, stronghold of the Polisario in south western Algeria, and in polisario-controlled jails. Mohamed Lamine recalled that the association reported the violations to "Amnesty International" and asked the international human rights watchdog to consider the "Polisario" leaders as war criminals.

The association, which already has sections in France, Spain, Belgium and the Netherlands, will open others in several European countries, especially Britain and Scandinavian countries.

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