NGOs group unveils ordeal of Tindouf sequestered population

A group of non-governmental organizations from the Moroccan southern provinces has recently held a large-scale campaign in Geneva to shed light on the ordeal of the population detained forcibly by the Polisario separatists in the Algerian south-western rear base of Tindouf.

The group, which staged its campaign on the fringes of the 58th session of the United Nations Human Rights Commission, targeted international press and NGOs to explain to them the realities in the sequestration camps of Tindouf and to unveil how the Polisario uses the detained population for mercantile and political purposes.

The group included exclusively activists who had fled the sequestration camps, where they had been tortured at the hands of the separatists.

At a press conference, these activists showed to the international press, to NGOs and to United Nations and government officials the scars of torture still apparent on their bodies.