Polisario torture dungeons are hell, former detainee
Morocco, Politics, 2/15/2005

The situation in the polisario torture dungeons is "hell," said Captain Youssef Al Makrazi, who just escaped the mercenary gangs of Tindouf, South-West Algeria, where he was inflicted various forms of torture for 14 years of sequestration.

Al Makrazi told the Moroccan news agency MAP, on Friday, when he was caught by polisario gangs on August 25, 1991, he was Ç interrogated with savage torture, practiced by Abdelaziz Al Marakchi, himself È, president of the so-called Sahrawi republic. He was also tortured by defense minister of the puppet republic, he said adding his torturers wanted to know about military secrets, but to no avail due to his tenacity. Wary of not getting any information he was subject to the most inhumane torture and sent to "a place where any Moroccan refusing to collaborate was to be put to death." The torturer blindfolded Al Makrazi and were on the verge to execute him when he asked to perform prayers, after which they decided not to kill him and to inflict on him other forms of torture. The torture of Al Makarzi lasted for three months during which he was put in a tiny cell where Ç one can but suffer, whether a human or animal È. Living in the cells left lasting and chronic diseases on the prisoners because of posture inconveniences and the dirt, the captain said.

He said torturing Moroccan prisoners was "systematic" and that the visits by missions of the international red cross would not ease "the hellish machine" of polisario torturers, which did not abate the torture until the publication of a report of the "Fondation France LibertŽ" headed by Mme Danielle Mitterrand.

Captain Al Makrazi called on international humanitarian organisations, human rights associations, the UNO and other activists in the world to focus on the ordeal of the Moroccans sequestrated in the concentration camps of Tindouf.

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