Arabic News Weekly Edition for Algeria, 9/22/2003
Weekly Edition, Algeria - Week of September 22, 2003
- Morocco, Algeria set up security cooperation task group
Morocco and Algeria agreed to set up a cooperation task group on illegal immigration, terrorism and all that might threaten "security, peace and stability in the two sister countries." Morocco-Algeria, Politics, 9/26/2003 - Madani calls for reconciliation, halting violence
Former leader of the Islamic Front for Salvation, Abbasi Madani, yesterday called for putting an end to the acts of violence in Algeria which claimed the lives of 12,000 victims so far, and for a national dialogue excluding no one." Algeria, Politics, 9/26/2003 - Human rights association points fingers at Polisario atrocities in Tindouf
The Association of Victims of Human Rights Violations in Polisario Prisons (ASVIPO) drew the attention of the international community on crimes against humanity committed by the Algeria-backed Polisario guerrilla movement that is claiming the independence of southern Moroccan provinces. Algeria-Morocco, Politics, 9/26/2003 - ICRC delegate meets relatives of Moroccan POWs
Delegate of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Dorothea Krimits, is carrying on a "humanitarian mission" visiting in the southern Moroccan city of Guelmim relatives of Moroccan POWs held captive by the Algeria-backed Polisario Separatists in southwestern Algeria. Algeria-Morocco, Politics, 9/24/2003 - Tribune de Geneve: Swiss daily denounces deportation of sahrawi kids to Cuba by Polisario
The Swiss daily "Tribune de Geneve" denounced in an article published recently the deportation of thousands of Sahrawi children to Cuba by the Algeria-backed Polisario guerrilla movement that claims the independence of Moroccan southern provinces. Algeria-Cuba, Politics, 9/24/2003 - Arab Journalists Union criticizes the government; Some 11 Algerian dailies refrain publication
The Cairo-based Arab Journalists Union (AJU) is "deeply worried" by the "deterioration" of the situation of the media in Algeria -- which led yesterday 11 newspapers to refrain publishing in protest of government's harassment -- where, it said, "the freedom of speech is threatened" by judicial and administrative actions taken against journalists and newspapers. Algeria-Regional, Politics, 9/23/2003 - Butaflika appoints a committee for people missing due to politics
Algerian President Abdul Aziz Butaflika has appointed a national committee to consider the question of hundreds of missing who disappeared in the framework of the wave of violence which effected the country, in a remarkable attempt before the presidential elections, in order to close this file which raised criticism from local and international legal groups. Algeria, Politics, 9/23/2003 - ICRC meets families of Moroccan POWs in tindouf Morocco-Algeria, Politics, 9/22/2003