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The Moroccan regime is still on the hot seat due to its crimes and its barbaric repression against the Sahrawi civilian populations. One of the most sinister practices in Makhzen is the use of the kidnapping of Sahrawi civilian activists and forced disappearances.
Often this ends with assassinations or summary executions. And there are many examples. Forced disappearance is considered “a crime against humanity” by international law. Rabat is already guilty of unpunished and imprisoned crimes.
The vile scheme is simple: remove in the middle of the night and make the victim disappear, far from his region, without giving news. All research or legal proceedings are in vain, because no trace is left so that parents or relatives can find the victims. And the figures for this criminal policy are frightening.
According to theNGO A non -governmental organization (NGO) is a non -profit association, of public interest, which is neither the state of the state, nor of international institutions AFAPREDESA, more than 4,500 cases of forced disappearance have been identified, of which nearly 445 are still irresolus. For families of victims, this practice of the Moroccan occupier is not new. It is a widespread method of blackmail and a means of pressure on activists and their loved ones. This vile practice plunges the families of the missing in dread, shocked by fear and injustice.
For the Sahraouis, it is an eternal drama, because forced disappearance plunges whole families into uncertainty, deprives them of burial and mourning. The most terrible remains this anxiety of learning that relatives are buried in common pits or thrown into the sea.
Oasis’ memory report shows that Western Sahara records the highest cases of forced disappearance in the world. Encouraged by impunity and the accomplice silence of the international community, the Moroccan occupation regime deliberately exercises, and since the beginning of the colonization of Western Sahara, this policy aimed at stifling all the voices of the Pacific Sahrawi resistants.
When Rabat and the Polisario Front signed the cease-fire agreements in 1991, the Makhzen released more than 300 Sahraouis, however considered as disappeared since 1975 when their families had no news, which proves that this practice is anchored in the Makhzen and its repression services.
The emblematic cases of Journalist Sahraoui Mohamed Lamin Haddi, subject to inhuman prison conditions, or the activist Sultana Khaya, victim of a police seat and constant assaults, recall that the practices of disappearance and repression remain current.
Last Saturday, it was the International Day of Victims of Forced Disappearance, which coincides with August 30. A day proclaimed by the UN in 2010. Because forced disappearance has become a phenomenon that has grown around the world and which is legally considered as a crime against humanity.
This is an opportunity to raise awareness of global opinion on the serious violations of human rights still underway in Western Sahara, where Rabat pursues, despite calls and denunciations, his policy of forced disappearance against Sahrawi civilians.
However, a signatory of several international treaties relating to human rights, including the International Convention for the Protection of Persons against Forced Disappearances, the Kingdom of Morocco continues to commit more and more serious human rights violations in the last colony of Africa.
In recent years, hundreds of member organizations of the Geneva support group for the protection and promotion of human rights in Western Sahara have called on Morocco to abandon its colonial policies (illegal looting of Natural Sahrawi resources, forced disappearance, use of torture, arbitrary detention, reprisals, destruction of personal property, etc.).
For some activists, there is a real danger of extermination of the Sahrawi people and wild ethnic purification, aimed at freeing entire regions to offer them to new Moroccan or foreign settlers, especially French and Israeli.