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> Cuba Reaffirms Solidarity with Saharan People
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I don't think it is "showing solidarity" to help with separating
children from their families as Cuba does.
It is also not showing any solidarity to v
Sahara issue
Sahrawi children inhumanely treated in Cuba, former Cuban official
Morocco TIMES 3/31/2006 | 12:45 am GMT
"Sahrawi children, who are sent to Cuba, followed military training and
courses on making explosives," testified one of the Cuban former
officials, who made documentaries on the inhumane conditions of the
Sahrawi children in Cuba, re****ted MAP news agency.
Some former Cuban senior officials confessed that children, who were
snatched from their parents in Tindouf camps and de****ted to Cuban
"Youth Island", endured ill-treatment.
"These children followed military training and courses on the making of
explosives," said former Cuban instructor, Dariel Alarcon.
Dariel Alarcon, known as "Benigno", testified in a documentary entitled
"Cuba and Polisario Front: crime partners" that he was in charge of
making Sahrawi children, barely nine years old, undergo a military
training.
Alarcon, now exiled in France, recalled boats carrying an "incredibly"
high number of Sahrawi children, who later were sent to "Youth island"
under military control with no hope of escaping."
"We taught children how to make home-made explosives with such products
as sugar, coffee, sulphur, and nitroglycerine," he said, revealing that
during these courses "several children were killed. Their bodies should
still be buried in the island if they were not exhumed," said Alarcon.
Juan Vives, former agent of Cuban secret services, published a
documentary under the title "El Magnifico" in which he described the
inhumane condition of children sent from the Polisario-controlled
Tindouf camps, South-west Algeria, to the Latin American country.
In the documentary, Vives said that the Moroccan Sahrawi children were
sent to schools, which were established especially for them, to follow
their politically oriented studies.
"Children were obliged to work in the fields in the morning and go to
school in the afternoon. Some did not cease to cry, claiming their
parents. It was inhumane. Some arrived so young to Cuba that they hardly
remembered from where they came. And it is very inhumane," said Vives.
The former agent said that some young people stayed in Cuba over 12
years, admitting that his country hosted "a network of kidnapping
children."
The documentary, which indicated that 2,000 to 3,000 young Sahrawis are
still in Cuba and hundreds of children are still being sent each year,
talked about other abuses exerted by the Polisario, including the
embezzlement of the international aids and the inhumane treatment of the
Moroccan detainees in Tindouf camps.
The DVD documentary was screened during the Moroccan delegation's tour
to several US cities in order to draw the attention of the American
public opinion, particularly the Christian community, to the plight of
the sequestered population in the camps.
During some meetings held in Trenton, New Jersey, Sarasota, Florida and
Jacksonville, the members of the Moroccan delegation presented copies of
this documentary to religious leaders to share it with their communities
and show them the real face of the so-called Polisario.
The Moroccan delegation, composed of Saadani Maa Oulainine, Boussoula
Mohammed Ebeya, Bachir Edkhil, Ali Najab and Ali Jaouhar, delivered
poignant testimonies on the torture they endured during their detention
in Tindouf camps.
http://www.moroccotimes.com/Paper/article.asp?idr=2&id=13816
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Two survivors of Tindouf make moving testimony before ngos in Geneva
Morocco-Algeria, Politics, 4/18/2002
Two Sahrawi women who succeeded to flee the Tindouf sequestration camps
in south Western Algeria made this Wednesday in Geneva a moving
testimony of their ordeal before representatives of several women's ngos.
The two Sahrawis, Souilka Aamari and Fatimatou Mansour, spoke before the
women's caucus, on the sidelines of the ongoing 58th session of the
Human Rights Commission, of their daily ordeal in Tindouf, stronghold of
the polisario separatists, of their moral and physical sufferings, of
the unspeakable violations of the rights of sequestered women and
children.
Souilka Aamari told the caucus how she had been separated from her
daughter, who had been de****ted to Cuba while Fatimatou Mansour spoke of
her own experience as a de****tee to Cuba when she was still an
8-year-old girl and of the ten to twelve years she spent there. She
described the ordeal of hundreds of small and young Sahrawi girls
de****ted to Cuba, where they are submitted to hard labor in sugar cane
fields, handed to ***ual exploitation and prostitution networks or
forcibly enrolled in military training where the enemy is always Morocco.
Souilka Aamari, who spent 17 years in the Tindouf camps described the
inhuman living conditions in these camps, dwelling on the lack of
hygiene and of adequate food -as the humanitarian assistance destined to
the sequestered populations is embezzled by the polisario leaders. She
also spoke of the rapes practiced by polisario leaders, of the physical
torture exercised on all those who dare voice an opposition to the
polisario. But for Souilka Aamari, physical torture in nothing compared
to the "torture of the soul" the "indescribable torture" as she put it.
How can you describe the internal wound when your child is snatched from
your lap to be sent to so a far, inaccessible continent? She said
appealing to the Caucus and to international ngos to initiate moves to
end the sufferings of the mothers and children sequestered in Tindouf,
some of whom for more than 25 years.
The session, held under the chairman****p of Ms. Conchita Poncini,
chairwoman of "Woman's Condition" ngo, was followed by a debate, wherein
several participants conceded that they had been so far misled by the
polisario propaganda and had no idea on the reality in the camps. They
pledged to inform politicians and human rights activists in their
respective reality.
One of the participants, an executive in a ngo struggling against women
trafficking and violence against women, Ms Marion Boeker, who is member
of the Green party in Germany, pledged to send a letter to Cuban Leader
Fidel Castro to denounce the ordeal of Sahrawi children de****ted to Cuba
and ask for explanations on their situation. She asked the Sahrawi women
to make their testimony again Thursday during the debate on "women's
trafficking " organized by her ngo and the "women's international League
for peace and freedom." Ms Boeker also invited all Sahrawi women who
wish to do so to attend the coming international conference on violence
against women to be held in Nigeria to speak of their experience.
Ms. Conchita Poncini on her part expressed the wish to visit the
southern provinces of Morocco to meet a maximum of sahrawi women to get
first hand information on the tragedy they lived in the Tindouf camps.
http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/020418/2002041803.html
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Calls for return of Sahrawi children de****ted 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 de****ted 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 de****ting 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 ***ual tourism webs.
These children, most of whom were de****ted 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.
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