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Calls for return of Sahrawi children deported to Cuba
Morocco-Cuba, Politics, 1/22/2001
The Moroccan Committee for the Reunion of Sahrawi families, called over the
weekend on the international community to act for the return to the homeland
of Sahrawi children deported to Cuba and liberation of those sequestered in
the Tindouf camps (south-western Algeria).
The call was made by Ms. Yasni Samira, who is in charge of the committee
international relations, at a meeting held by African Non-Governmental
organizations in Dakar part of preparations for an international conference
against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and intolerance, to be
staged next August in South Africa.
Ms. Yasni decried the inhuman conditions of the 10,000 Sahrawis in three
Cuban Islands. She called for the implementation of all mechanisms on
persons protection, especially the convention on the suppression of human
trafficking and the convention on the protection of women and children in
difficult situations and in armed conflicts.
She argued that deporting Sahrawi children is part of a the Polisario
strategy to dismember Sahrawi families and hold them hostages.
For the human rights activist, it is high time for the African community,
which has been led astray by the Polisario, to understand the tragedy of
these children, who are subjected to hard labor in sugar canes plantations,
in cigar factories and exploited by sexual tourism webs.
These children, most of whom were deported at the age of six, are regularly
submitted to an ideological indoctrination, Ms. Yasni said, adding the
vulnerable minors have lost all attachment to the families, the Polisario
being presented to them as their sole family.
The Dakar meeting was attended by some 20 African NGOs, including the
Moroccan Human Rights Organization.
http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/010122/2001012223.html
Tribune de Geneve: Swiss daily denounces deportation of sahrawi kids to Cuba
by Polisario
Algeria-Cuba, Politics, 9/24/2003
The Swiss daily "Tribune de Geneve" denounced in an article published
recently the deportation of thousands of Sahrawi children to Cuba by the
Algeria-backed Polisario guerrilla movement that claims the independence of
Moroccan southern provinces.
Under the title "from the desert to the Caribbean, the deported of the
Sahara," the paper shed light on the tragedy of Sahrawi children who are
deported in their early age from the Moroccan Sahara to Cuba in the name of
a backward-looking and dual interest ideology.
Swiss journalist, Antoine Maurice, quotes the testimony of fatimatou
Mansour, who was separated from her family when she was 12 years old
together with 600 other Sahrawi children to Cuba onboard an old Soviet ship.
Polisario authorities tell the children they are going for holidays, hiding
the real sufferings of separation, said the journalist, explaining that
Fatimatou lived 12 years in exile in a boarding school in the Isle of Pines,
currently called Isle of Youth. At the beginning they were hundreds of young
children, as time went by they became thousands of girls and boys gathered
in special institutions.
Actually, underlined the Swiss paper, the children were sequestered and
isolated, in order to form a new generation of socialists, without having
the right to leave the island. Food intakes varied according to the
fluctuations of the US embargo, the paper reports.
"Tribune de Geneve" described how Fatimatou returned to Tindouf (southern
Algeria) after twelve years of sequestration in the Cuban Island and how she
fled to Morocco where she was "welcomed as a lost child."
The tragedy went as the world intellectuals kept silence and it was only in
1999, that the UNESCO mentioned the plight of these children in one of its
reports, says the journalist, who hails the fact that many of those who
escaped the Isle of Youth like Fatimatou are now allowed to recount their
experience before the Human Rights Commission in Geneva, MAP reported.
http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/030924/2003092429.html
U.S. NGO denounces illegal detention of Moroccan POWs in Tindouf
Morocco-USA, Politics, 10/7/2004
The American Council for Moroccan POWs (ACMP) has denounced in a release
Tuesday the "continuous, illegal and morally reprehensible" detention of
Moroccan prisoners in Tinduf (south-western Algeria), in violation of all
international conventions.
The Gardena, CA-based organization also called on the South African
government to "exert utmost pressure on Algerian authorities, which have the
control (of the Tindouf camps), to free, immediately and unconditionally,
Moroccan prisoners in these camps and elsewhere on Algerian soil.
Algeria is supporting and harbouring the Polisario separatists, who claim
the secession of Morocco's southern provinces, known as the Sahara. This
former Spanish colony was retrieved by Morocco in 1975 under the Madrid
accord.
The ACMP exhorts South Africa to seize the occasion of the visit of
President Abdelaziz Bouteflika of Algeria in Pretoria to remind him of
Algeria's obligation vis-^-vis the Moroccan prisoners, in accordance with
the Geneva conventions and the international humanitarian law.
South-African authorities should spare no effort to put an end to this
shameful and dishonouring chapter of African history, the U.S. NGO went on,
stressing that the pitiful "world record" of oldest prisoner in the world no
longer belongs to Nelson Mandela, who was jailed under the Apartheid regime,
but to hundreds of Moroccan detainees, in the Gulag-style camps of Tinduf.
Moroccans have been held in precarious conditions in the camps of Tinduf,
some of them for 28 years. They sustain all sorts of abuses, from forced
labor and interrogatories led by Algerian intelligence officers, to torture
and arbitrary executions, as reported by human rights organizations such as
'France Libertes'.
The ACMP also launches an "urgent call to president Thabo Mbeki of South
Africa, foreign minister, Dlamini Zuma and SA's ambassador to the United
States, Barbara Masekela, to see to the settlement of this international
humanitarian crisis, and to make justice and equity ideals prevail."
The council also denounces Algeria's policy, consisting in releasing the
Moroccan POWs by batches, to benefit from foreign dignitaries' favors and
avoid, as long as possible, international criticism.
It also condemns Algeria's deportation of hundreds of Sahrawi children to
Cuba, in order to keep hold of their parents in the camps.
http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/041007/2004100724.html
Les Marocains qui ont pris part à la dernière "conférence-débat" sur le
Sahara ont été agréablement surpris par la prestation de Fatima Mansour.
Nommée récemment conseillère à l'ambassade du Royaume à Genève chargée du
dossier du Sahara, cette jeune femme ne passe pas inaperçue. Native de la
ville de Dakhla au début des années soixante dix, Fatima Mansour, issue
d'une noble famille des Ould Dlim, fut kidnappée, à l'âge de 6 ans avec les
membres de sa famille, alors qu'ils campaient quelque part dans la région de
Oued Eddahab, par les guérilleros du Polisario soucieux de vider le Sahara
de sa population pour remplir les camps de Tindouf au Sud-ouest algérien.
Son expérience dans la vie est particulièrement riche. Son enfance a été, en
partie, au Cuba où, envoyée par le mouvement séparatiste, elle a séjourné
dix longues années. Au cours de cette période, elle fait tout son cursus
scolaire qui fut auréolé par une licence en anglais, langue qu'elle avait
également enseignée dans les lycées cubains.
Après son retour chez ses parents séquestrés au sud-ouest algérien, la jeune
femme a travaillé dans l'appareil de communication du Polisario. Elle fut,
pendant une brève période, chargée d'accompagner les délégations étrangères
en visite dans les camps de Lahmada. Elle a servi également comme
interprète. Mais en ce début des années 90, Fatima Mansour, pas plus que ses
parents, n'a plus la moindre illusion sur le Polisario discrédité, aux yeux
d'une bonne partie des Sahraouis, par la sanglante répression de "la
révolte", en 1988, de la population des camps désireuse de regagner le
Maroc. Après un détour par la Mauritanie, les Mansour regagnent leur Rio
d'Oro natal en 1994. Polyglotte, Fatima sera nommée au service de presse de
la Wilaya de Laâyoune. Mariée à un cousin, homme d'affaires, cette dame a,
très tôt, forcé le respect de ses collègues pour son sérieux et son
application.
Elle retrouve un peu aujourd'hui, à Genève, l'atmosphère cosmopolite dans
laquelle elle avait vécu durant sa prime jeunesse. Elle éprouve, semble-t-il
également, un goût réel à régler ses comptes à "cette supercherie nommée
Polisario".
A.B.A
http://www.maroc-hebdo.press.ma/MHinternet/Archives_552/html_552/bata...
Tribune de Geneve: Swiss daily denounces deportation of sahrawi kids to Cuba
by Polisario
Algeria-Cuba, Politics, 9/24/2003
The Swiss daily "Tribune de Geneve" denounced in an article published
recently the deportation of thousands of Sahrawi children to Cuba by the
Algeria-backed Polisario guerrilla movement that claims the independence of
Moroccan southern provinces.
Under the title "from the desert to the Caribbean, the deported of the
Sahara," the paper shed light on the tragedy of Sahrawi children who are
deported in their early age from the Moroccan Sahara to Cuba in the name of
a backward-looking and dual interest ideology.
Swiss journalist, Antoine Maurice, quotes the testimony of fatimatou
Mansour, who was separated from her family when she was 12 years old
together with 600 other Sahrawi children to Cuba onboard an old Soviet ship.
Polisario authorities tell the children they are going for holidays, hiding
the real sufferings of separation, said the journalist, explaining that
Fatimatou lived 12 years in exile in a boarding school in the Isle of Pines,
currently called Isle of Youth. At the beginning they were hundreds of young
children, as time went by they became thousands of girls and boys gathered
in special institutions.
Actually, underlined the Swiss paper, the children were sequestered and
isolated, in order to form a new generation of socialists, without having
the right to leave the island. Food intakes varied according to the
fluctuations of the US embargo, the paper reports.
"Tribune de Geneve" described how Fatimatou returned to Tindouf (southern
Algeria) after twelve years of sequestration in the Cuban Island and how she
fled to Morocco where she was "welcomed as a lost child."
The tragedy went as the world intellectuals kept silence and it was only in
1999, that the UNESCO mentioned the plight of these children in one of its
reports, says the journalist, who hails the fact that many of those who
escaped the Isle of Youth like Fatimatou are now allowed to recount their
experience before the Human Rights Commission in Geneva, MAP reported.
http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/030924/2003092429.html
Calls for return of Sahrawi children deported to Cuba
Morocco-Cuba, Politics, 1/22/2001
The Moroccan Committee for the Reunion of Sahrawi families, called over the
weekend on the international community to act for the return to the homeland
of Sahrawi children deported to Cuba and liberation of those sequestered in
the Tindouf camps (south-western Algeria).
The call was made by Ms. Yasni Samira, who is in charge of the committee
international relations, at a meeting held by African Non-Governmental
organizations in Dakar part of preparations for an international conference
against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and intolerance, to be
staged next August in South Africa.
Ms. Yasni decried the inhuman conditions of the 10,000 Sahrawis in three
Cuban Islands. She called for the implementation of all mechanisms on
persons protection, especially the convention on the suppression of human
trafficking and the convention on the protection of women and children in
difficult situations and in armed conflicts.
She argued that deporting Sahrawi children is part of a the Polisario
strategy to dismember Sahrawi families and hold them hostages.
For the human rights activist, it is high time for the African community,
which has been led astray by the Polisario, to understand the tragedy of
these children, who are subjected to hard labor in sugar canes plantations,
in cigar factories and exploited by sexual tourism webs.
These children, most of whom were deported at the age of six, are regularly
submitted to an ideological indoctrination, Ms. Yasni said, adding the
vulnerable minors have lost all attachment to the families, the Polisario
being presented to them as their sole family.
The Dakar meeting was attended by some 20 African NGOs, including the
Moroccan Human Rights Organization.
http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/010122/2001012223.html
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http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/020228/2002022828.html
Italian NGO
Vows to Unveil Human Rights Violations by Polisario
ROME, Oct 02 - An Italian Non Governmental organization has vowed to unveil
human rights violations against Sahrawi women abducted in the Tindouf Camps
(Southern Algeria) at the hands of the separatist movement Polisario.
Daniela Colombo, head of the Italian Association of Women for development
(AIDOS) made this pledge while receiving, here Wednesday, Fatimatou Mansour,
a Sahrawi woman who used to live in theses camps before being deported by
the Polisario to Cuba while she was only 10 years old.
Fatima who returned to her home country, Morocco, briefed this NGO on the
sufferings of Sahrawi women in those camps, ruled by the Algeria-backed
movement that claims the independence of this former Spanish colony
retrieved by Morocco in 1975 under a tripartite agreement signed by Spain,
Morocco and Mauritania.
Fatimatou who is part of a Sahrawi delegation representing the people of the
southern Moroccan provinces, related her own experience in those camps
where, she said, women are harassed, arrested and separated from their
children.
Her story was echoed by other members of the Sahrawi delegation who met
several Italian human rights advocacy NGOs. These latter said they were
"Shocked" and "astonished" by the truth about the inhumane conditions in
which the Sahrawi people live in these camps, in total violation of the most
basic human rights.
The delegation is led by Ali Salem Chaqaf, an MP from Dakhla (Southern
Morocco) and 2nd deputy chairman of the foreign affairs committee at the
Chamber of Advisers (Upper House).
Talks also provided the opportunity for Italian NGOs to pledge their
financial support to some projects being carried out in this part of
Morocco.
http://www.map.co.ma/mapeng/home_dep/pol_ma055.htm
Posted on Fri, Sep. 26,
2003
El desconocido secuestro de los niños sarahuíes
PABLO ALFONSO / El Nuevo Herald
GINEBRA, Suiza
Cuando Fatimatu Mansur llegó a Cuba en el verano de 1982 nunca imaginó
que veinte años después estaría denunciando el azaroso drama de su vida y la
de sus companeros ante la Comisión de Derechos Humanos de Naciones Unidas en
esta apacible ciudad suiza.
En realidad no lo podía imaginar, porque, en aquel entonces la joven
sarahui tenia apenas 10 años de edad.
''Eramos niños que fuimos separados a la fuerza de nuestras familias,
enviados a Cuba en contra de la voluntad de nuestros padres'', afirma Mansur
en un fluido español, de profundo acento cubano, que contrasta con el
tradicional atuendo con que visten las mujeres musulmanas.
Durante una entrevista con El Nuevo Herald, Mansur explicó que era
parte de un contigente de 2,000 jovenes sarahuíes enviados a estudiar a Cuba
por el Frente Polisario (Frente Popular para la Liberacion del Sahara
Occidental y Río de Oro), una organización que desde 1975 reclama la
existencia de la República Arabe Sarahuí, en lo que fuera un antiguo
territorio colonial español, en disputa con el Reino de Marruecos.
La historia de ese complejo y lejano conflicto tiene sus vínculos con
Cuba por el apoyo que el régimen de Fidel Castro ha brindado desde su
nacimiento al Frente Polisario, conjuntamente con Argelia y Libia y la ex
Union Sovietica.
Mansur vivió en Cuba durante 12 años, la mayor parte del tiempo en la
Isla de la Juventud (antigua Isla de Pinos). Allí junto a sus compañeros
cursó sus estudios primarios y secundarios.
''Estuve en las escuelas números 49 y 14 y en la Vanguardia de La
Habana hasta los 17 años'', afirma la joven, mientras rememora las duras
jornadas dedicadas a aprender un nuevo idioma, una cultura diferente, los
trabajos agrícolas en los campos de cítricos y el entrenamiento militar en
los períodos de receso escolar. Cuando concluyó sus estudios secundarios
Mansur fue enviada al Instituto Superior Pedagógico de la provincia de Pinar
del Río.
''Lo peor que hemos sufrido ha sido la separación de la familia. Nunca
más ví a mis padres'', subrayó.
La historia de estos jóvenes sarahuíes que estudian en Cuba es poco
conocida. Ellos forman parte de varios cientos de estudiantes extanjeros, la
mayoría africanos y asiáticos, que el régimen castrista mantiene en regiones
agrícolas de Isla de Pinos y que muestra como uno de sus grandes logros
solidarios con el llamado Tercer Mundo.
''Yo cuestiono seriamente esa educación. Me pregunto si es justo, si
es humano lo que nos hacen'', afirma la joven. ''Te separan de tus padres
cuando eres un niño, creces en otra cultura, no te enseñan tu lengua ni tu
religión'', afirma Mansur. ''Nosotros somos musulmanes, pero al final te han
desarraigado de tu pueblo y te vuelves un extraño. Es verdad que hemos
aprendido, pero hemos perdido el contacto con nuestra familia, y para muchos
ha sido por el resto de sus vidas'' agregó.
http://www.miami.com/mld/elnuevo/news/world/cuba/6861751.htm
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