Polesario asks UN interference on fate of missing

The chairman of the Polesario Front, Muhammad`Abdul Aziz, called on the UN to interfere to force Morocco to disclose the fate of 500 missing and 151 prisoners held by Morocco, and to establish a special international court "before which the Moroccan officials involved in anti-humanity crimes are put on trial against the Sahara people."

The Algerian news agency quoted Abdul Aziz as expressed, in a message to the UN secretary general Kofi Annan, his concern after "the recent discovery of the bodies of 40 Sahara men in a mass grave in Morocco." This is an evidence that proves, according to him, " the full responsibility of the Algerian government in the file of the Sahara war prisoners and missing file."

Abdul Aziz said that Morocco admitted that there are mass graves in which 50 detainees were jailed died in the Moroccan jails in the 1970s and the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s "including 40 Sahara men died after they were tortured and their bodies were recognized," in remarks to the report of the Moroccan al-Insaf and al-Musalha ( justice and reconciliation) commission which talked in October about finding tombs for opposition to the late Moroccan king Hassan II.