La ASADEDH condena la agresión a los familiares de Hach Ahmed en Dajla

"We condemn and denounce the serious aggression suffered by the Suelem Ahmed Bericalla family, nephews of the founder Hach Ahmed Bericalla, leader of the Saharawi Movement for Peace (MSP), at the hands of the repressive body called the Polisario gendarmerie in the Dakhla camp", reads the statement issued on Saturday by the Saharawi Association for the Defence of Human Rights (ASADEDH). 

The Saharawi humanitarian organisation referred to the events that took place in the early hours of Thursday morning in this camp, located 160 kilometres from Tindouf, when Polisario militants assaulted relatives of the first secretary of the MSP, Hach Ahmed. The Saharawi politician denounced the events hours later to the Special Representative for Western Sahara, Alexander Ivanko, and attached visual evidence.

ASADEDH maintains that this is "a clear revenge by the Polisario leadership against the leader of the MSP after the internal and external successes of this movement, which has called into question the Polisario's representation of the Saharawi population".  

The refugees in the camp of Ain El Beda mobilised on Friday night "against this flagrant violation of elementary rights against defenceless civilians", ASADEDH maintains. The Polisario leadership sent a strong military device to repress the demonstrators. This was followed by a series of violent acts which ended with the security post in flames and the vehicles of the Gendarmerie destroyed.

ASADEDH appealed "to all active forces, international human rights organisations and the United Nations itself to put pressure on Polisario and the host country Algeria to put an end once and for all to these inhuman practices against our defenceless civilian population in the Tindouf camps in Algeria".