Speaking as part of the interactive dialogue with the UN rapporteur on human trafficking, within the framework of the 50th session of the CDH, Mr. Breika pointed out Algeria’s responsibility in the violations, abuses and illicit trafficking committed by the Polisario, denouncing the devolution of management prerogatives of the Tindouf camps to separatist military elements, which “prevents the establishment of any human rights framework capable of monitoring and reporting on human trafficking” in the said camps.
He noted, in this sense, that human trafficking constitutes one of the lucrative activities for the separatist militias who use, without scruples, these camps as a business.
“The Polisario camps are a sad example of the exploitation of human beings by armed separatist militias,” he continued.
Mr. Breika noted that “the Polisario leadership still treats a large group of black-skinned people as slaves who are sold and bought across the Sahel-Saharan region, especially women and children, who face the worst forms of abuse, including rape, forced labor and the recruitment of minors into terrorist groups, criminal gangs and human trafficking networks.”
“One of the most heinous forms of human trafficking in the Polisario camps is the deportation of hundreds of children each year to Europe,” stressed Mr. Breika, who drew attention to the situation of the children of Tindouf, who are sent to European countries on the false pretext of spending the summer holidays, before they are handed over, in exchange for sums of money, to European families, in order to adopt them in an environment that is foreign to them, far from their mothers despite their young age, which causes human tragedies.”
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