Secret mass graves of prisoners unveiled in Morocco

[brim]

Euskal Irrati Telebista (EITB)
8 October 2005

Hundreds of Moroccans were arrested and tortured at the hands of
security agents while Morocco was engaged in a fight over its
centuries-old claims to Western Sahara, human rights groups say.

An official Moroccan human rights group on Saturday unveiled the mass
graves of 50 political prisoners who died at secret detention centres
in the 1970s. The Equity and Reconciliation Commission (IER), set up by
royal decree to help discover what happened to the hundreds of
Moroccans arrested arbitrarily in the 1970s said
Moroccan government authorities had helped it to find graves at
three former detention centres in the remote south.

"The recognition of the existence of the graves is a great step which
underscores the willingness of the authorities that past abuses will
not happen again," said IER senior official Bouderka M'Barek.

Hundreds of Moroccans were arrested and tortured at the hands of
security agents while Morocco was engaged in a fight over its
centuries-old claims to Western Sahara, human rights groups say.

Morocco invaded Western Sahara after colonial power Spain pulled out in
1975, triggering a low-level guerrilla war against the Polisario Front.
Polisario seeks an independent state in Western Sahara.

No official figures exist on how many people disappeared, but rights
groups say up to 600. M'Barek, whose group also assists survivors and
provides compensation, told Reuters relatives of the 50 prisoners
buried at the recently found centres of M'Gouna, Tagoun and
Agdaz some 500 km (300 miles) south of Rabat were being informed.

"Mass prayers by their families, friends and rights activists will be
organised at the sites of the mass graves in the near future and then
families will decide whether to move the remains of their loved ones
elsewhere or keep them there," he said.

The war ended in 1991, but Rabat is still struggling to keep the
territory under its control. Some of the security officials behind the
deaths are believed to be still alive. A U.N. peacekeeping mission has
been trying, so far without success, to hold a referendum over the fate
of the territory.

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Source:http://www.eitb24.com/noticia_en.php?id=95514

[NAK__-KKK]

do I have to tell you to mind the hundreds of thousands of disapeared in your Algeria ...Morocco is none of your business , and shove that basque newspaper up your mama's algerian a$$......

[brim]

Once again NAK throws the rattle out of the pram. NAK was born in Algeria and yet he still uses being Algerian as a term of abuse...???

Back to the OP.

"The recognition of the existence of the graves is a great step which
underscores the willingness of the authorities that past abuses will
not happen again," said IER senior official Bouderka M'Barek.

I , for one , certainly hope so.

[NAK__-KKK]

Originally Posted by brim

Once again NAK throws the rattle out of the pram. NAK was born in Algeria and yet he still uses being Algerian as a term of abuse...???

me born in Algeria ?!?!?! GOD forbid...
Do not you get it , that you are just an idiot wasting his time ?!?!?!?!

[-thetruth_]

are you saying that torture and killing never happened in Morocco? please wake up! those evil agents need to be brought to Justice

[NAK__-KKK]

Originally Posted by -thetruth_

are you saying that torture and killing never happened in Morocco? please wake up! those evil agents need to be brought to Justice

they tortured scum bags communists who were trying to bring chaos and killings in Morocco , and that's fine with me ....never a cop bothered me when I was in Morocco , do not break the rules and nobody will bug you ....and I have to thank our police forces for protecting us and protecting Morocco from the scum bags communists ......

[brim]

Originally Posted by NAK__-KKK

never a cop bothered me when I was in Morocco , do not break the rules and nobody will bug you ........

NAK's comment is true. However what he failed to tell you that the last time he was in Morocco was when he was three years of age. Clearly at that age he wasn't going to have too many encounters with police or security people. Now was he??