Sahara issue:
Separation of families 'most serious human rights violation '
12/20/2006
The chairman of the Royal Advisory Council for Sahrawi Affairs (CORCAS), Khalihenna Ould Errachid said the separation of families, one of the fallouts of the Sahara issue, is the "most serious human rights breach."
Ould Errachid also described, in an interview aired Monday by Laayoune regional TV, as serious human rights violations the fact that there are "Sahrawis without identity, that the Man does not enjoy the freedom to act (...) and that one can meet sixty and seventy-year-olds without any legacy," in an allusion to the situation in the Tindouf camps, Algeria.
CORCAS was created in March to look into the economic and social affairs of the southern provinces, the Sahara, and to safeguard the cultural identity of the inhabitants of this region. The Sahara is claimed by an Algeria-backed separatist movement, the Polsiario, which holds thousands of Moroccans as hostages in the Tindouf camps, southwestern Algeria.
The official affirmed having addressed with openness all the aspects related to this issue with the delegation of the UN High Commissioner for Human rights.
He said he had underlined that in a country that has “laws and references” such as Morocco, “State institutions intervene in a case of human rights violations
Sources: the political site of Western Sahara: http://www.corcas.com/
The Western Sahara portail: http://www.sahara-online.net/
The site of the hassani culture : http://www.sahara-culture.com/
Separation of families 'most serious human rights violation '
12/20/2006
The chairman of the Royal Advisory Council for Sahrawi Affairs (CORCAS), Khalihenna Ould Errachid said the separation of families, one of the fallouts of the Sahara issue, is the "most serious human rights breach."
Ould Errachid also described, in an interview aired Monday by Laayoune regional TV, as serious human rights violations the fact that there are "Sahrawis without identity, that the Man does not enjoy the freedom to act (...) and that one can meet sixty and seventy-year-olds without any legacy," in an allusion to the situation in the Tindouf camps, Algeria.
CORCAS was created in March to look into the economic and social affairs of the southern provinces, the Sahara, and to safeguard the cultural identity of the inhabitants of this region. The Sahara is claimed by an Algeria-backed separatist movement, the Polsiario, which holds thousands of Moroccans as hostages in the Tindouf camps, southwestern Algeria.
The official affirmed having addressed with openness all the aspects related to this issue with the delegation of the UN High Commissioner for Human rights.
He said he had underlined that in a country that has “laws and references” such as Morocco, “State institutions intervene in a case of human rights violations
Sources: the political site of Western Sahara: http://www.corcas.com/
The Western Sahara portail: http://www.sahara-online.net/
The site of the hassani culture : http://www.sahara-culture.com/
