In response to a new hateful intervention riddled with lies by the Algerian delegation on the issue of the Moroccan Sahara during this meeting held on Thursday, Majda Moutchou, Minister Plenipotentiary at the Permanent Mission of Morocco to the UN, indicated that “Algeria, as usual, tried, through the voice of its Minister of Foreign Affairs, to poison this debate and to use it for political ends that betray its destructive separatist agenda in the North African region.”
“Algeria must be ashamed of referring to the issue of the Moroccan Sahara, while it is sequestering entire populations, particularly women and children, in a prison called the Tindouf camps,” she noted, noting that these women and girls are left at the mercy of Algeria and the armed separatist group linked to terrorism, the “polisario,” which spreads terror and practices slavery, servitude and sexual abuse in these camps.
Quoting the international press, the diplomat stressed that more than 150 young girls were held against their will in these camps, including Maloma Morales, DarYa Mbarek Salma, Najdiba Mohammed Belkacem, Koria Bedbad Hafed, and many others, who were victims of the executioners of the “polisario” and its so-called leader “the separatist Brahim Ghali”, who is being prosecuted by the European justice system for crimes against humanity, rape and sexual assault, notably against Khadijatou Mahmoud.
The same fate befell “the children, and particularly the little girls, in the Tindouf camps, who are subjected, day and night, to propaganda, recruitment, indoctrination and exploitation,” she said, adding that the world was dismayed to see videos filmed in the Tindouf camps, showing wave after wave of forced recruitment of child soldiers, including girls, by the “polisario.”
“These barbaric and criminal practices of recruiting and indoctrinating kidnapped children are modeled on those of terrorist groups, such as Al Qaeda and Daesh,” the diplomat said indignantly, stressing that Algeria and its puppet the “polisario” will have to answer for these heinous crimes before international justice.
And to ask: “How dare Algeria come before this Council and talk about the issue of the Moroccan Sahara, when it and the +polisario+ are stealing humanitarian aid intended for the populations held captive in the Tindouf camps?”
She also denounced Algeria’s continued violation of international humanitarian law by opposing the registration of the populations of the Tindouf camps, despite the incessant requests of the Security Council since 2011, noting that a census of these populations will reveal the deception in which Algeria has been trying to keep the international community for almost 50 years by inflating the number of these populations.
“A census will deprive the +polisario+ and Algerian officials of the money stolen following the embezzlement of humanitarian assistance, as confirmed in the WFP report of January 2023 and in that of OLAF and the UNHCR before it,” she continued.
Referring to human rights violations by the Algerian authorities, the diplomat indicated that “the valiant people of Kabylie, a people of more than 8 million people and more than 9 thousand years old, continue to be deprived of their legitimate aspirations and their most fundamental rights, including the right to self-determination.”
“Its legitimate representatives are being hunted, arrested and persecuted, even when they are already suffering the pangs of forced exile. It is unacceptable that in this day and age, the valiant Kabyle people are being subjected to a generalized blockade and collective punishment, just because they are asking to exercise their legitimate right to self-determination,” the diplomat protested, believing that the United Nations has a political and moral obligation to repair this historical injustice against the Kabyle people, one of the oldest peoples in Africa.
And to conclude by emphasizing to the Algerian delegation that “there are no Sahrawi women. There is a Moroccan woman from the Moroccan Sahara. The woman from the southern provinces of the Kingdom of Morocco, just like the women from all the regions of the Kingdom, from Tangier to Lagouira, are all Moroccan. They always have been and they will always remain so.”
2024-08-20 14:31:29