Discussion in Geneva condemns the violations of Tindouf

In the context of the 59th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, the Swiss Albin Club in Geneva hosted a high -level side event entitled “Human Rights in Conflict Zones: Enhancing Dialogue for Peace and Reconciliation”, with a framework of “FICIR Dialogue Forum” (ICAT), with the aim of highlighting the grave and systematic violations For human rights committed within the conflict areas, especially in the Sahel and Sahara region, where terrorist armed groups that adopt violence are active as a means of imposing control and touching regional security and stability.

In line with this, during this parallel event, the interlocutors presented a dark image of the security and humanitarian conditions in the conflict areas, in reference to the violations committed inside the Tindouf camps on the Algerian soil and under the control of the armed group known as the “Polisario Front”. Under the supervision of Peru Diawara, Secretary -General of the “Ficir” forum and director of the “ICAT” center, the discussion highlighted the facts often absent, in light of the lack of any effective legal supervision, as well as the spread of the culture of impunity.

Moulay Lahcen Al -Naji, head of the “Independent Human Rights Committee in North Africa”, has opened a series of interventions, where he strongly condemned the systematic violations of basic rights within the Tindouf camps, reviewing specific cases of execution outside the scope of the law, enforced disappearance and human trafficking, including the forced recruitment of minors and the exploitation of women, stressing that these crimes are feeding from the absence of Independent refugee protection mechanisms, calling for international mobilization to document these violations and prosecute their perpetrators.

Ayman Aqeel, the head of the “Maat for Peace, Development and Human Rights”, pointed out the danger of violations that affect human rights in conflict areas, especially in the coast and desert, stressing that armed groups pursue methods based on spreading terror and fear between the population and the use of sexual violence as a weapon to impose control. The Polisario Front also held responsibility for committing systematic violations inside the Tindouf camps, where this armed group, according to his expression, imposes an authoritarian and violent pattern in a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law and human rights covenants.

For his part, Peru Diawara, Secretary -General of the Ficir Forum and Director of the ICAT Center, expanded the framework of the analysis to include regional dynamics, noting that the outbreak of armed terrorist groups and the growing organized crime, and the weak institutional structures, all factors that contribute to the perpetuation of instability within the region, calling for strengthening international cooperation in order to dismantle human trafficking networks and protect civilians as well as empowerment Victims from reaching justice.

The work of the side event concluded with the appeal of the participants to the United Nations, as well as member states, intensifying international efforts to punish the perpetrators who violate human rights within conflict areas, as well as strengthening documentation and accountability mechanisms and support for local initiatives aimed at reparation and guarantee of fairness victims. They also stressed the importance of stripping human rights discourse of any political employment, highlighting that grave violations, including those committed in the Tindouf camps under the control of the “Polisario Front”, requires a firm and comprehensive move that places human dignity above all considerations.