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Horror in Alge-polisario camp in tindouf
An American NGO has denounced a meeting scheduled Monday between the UN secretary general Kofi Annan and Mohamed Abdelaziz, head of the Polisario separatist group that lays claim over the Moroccan southern provinces, known as the Sahara.
A letter addressed Saturday to Annan expressed "disappointment" and "indignation" that the UN chief agreed to meet a "war criminal" at the
headquarters of the international organization. "Abdelaziz, a real war criminal should be arrested and handed to justice for the crimes he has committed," said the president of the American
Council for Moroccan POW (ACMP) in the letter, adding such moves would only "encourage him and his acolytes to go on terrorizing and mistreating the persons they pretend to be serving."
Describing the meeting as "untimely," ACMP president exhorted Annan to cling to his calls for "ending impunity" and to call off the meeting with Abdelaziz.
The letter recalled that human rights advocates have denounced the crimes committed in Tindouf camps, Algeria, where thousands of Sahrawis (Inhabitants of the Moroccan Sahara) live under the control of the Polisario separatists.
“Thousands of people can give testimonies of crimes and violations they were subjected to in Tindouf camps as did past November the former Moroccan PoW, Ali El Jaouhar, before a sub-committee of the US Congress,” the letter went on.
ACMP president also denounced the “complicity of Algeria in Polisario crimes,” saying Algeria is “as responsible as the Polisario in these war crimes
that are still being committed against the Moroccans sequestered in Tindouf.”
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