Khadija El Malki: I was subjected to torture and practices that I cannot describe
Khadija El Malki, daughter of Ahmed El Malki (alias Jha), who found refuge in Algeria because of his activities within the National Union of popular forces (UNFP- an opposition party), related here Saturday, the sufferings and the torture that she, and her family, endured in the late 1950s and during the 1960s.
El Malki was unable to retain her tears while narrating her plight, particularly in a police station in the eastern city of Oujda, after the events of 1963, while she was barely 15. "They subjected me to practices that I cannot describe," she said between sighs.
Relating her story, during the third session of public hearing into human rights violations committed from 1956 to 1999, organized by IER (Justice and Reconciliation Commission), El Malki, said she had received a phone-call from Algeria, where her father was taking refuge, in which the speaker asked her go to the railway station to meet a women "that she new" and who would present her to a person who would subsequently let her in the Algerian territory.
The gloomy fate of Khadija El Malki put her between the pitiless hands of the torturers of a police station in Oujda, who beat her with iron bars, tore her clothes apart while pressing a dirty rag on her face and pissing on her. Afterwards, they tied me up to a chair and threw me in a cell, she said.
El Malki, and her family, remained in exile in Algeria then in Libya until 1995, when she finally returned to Morocco after a royal pardon. El Malki said the pardon did not put an end to her suffering. "My children are forsaken. No body helped me, and I don't have a house (É). We thank God who gave us this opportunity to relate our story."
