Families of Moroccan prisoners in the Tindouf camps, southwest Algeria, will stage for the first time a sit-in Sunday morning in front of the Algerian embassy in Rabat, said Ibrahim Hajam, president of the National Association of the Families of Martyrs, Disappeared and Prisoners of the Moroccan Sahara, reported MAP.
“We charge the Algerians, namely Abdelaziz Bouteflika, with the historical responsibility to set free all Moroccan prisoners detained by Polisario on Algerian soil,” Ibrahim Hajam told the Moroccan Arabic daily newspaper Assabah.
This sit-in will be staged in parallel with other sit-ins in Montreal, Canada, by the Moroccan association Maroc Espoir, in Geneva, Switzerland, by the association of Moroccan Residents and the International Committee for the Defence of Moroccan POWs in Tindouf.
The participants in the Rabat sit-in will hand on a letter to the Algerian ambassador to give to Bouteflika. Hajam said that the letter calls for an immediate and unconditional liberation of all Moroccan prisoners detained by Polisario on Algerian soil. It will also charge Bouteflika with historical responsibility because Algeria still detains Moroccans.
“Algeria signed the Geneva Convention of Prisoners of War. It must bring Polisario killers of Moroccan prisoners to justice and put an end to their suffering in the Tindouf camps,” added Hajam.
9th June 2005, 13:26
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