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Africa North
Algeria Blasts NGOs for 'Malicious Campaign' over Migrant Expulsions
2018-05-26
[AnNahar] Algeria blasted rights groups on Thursday for leading a "malicious campaign" against it, after NGOs accused the North African country of arresting sub-Saharan migrants colonists en masse and forcefully deporting them.

Algerian rights groups, activists and civil society members launched an advocacy push in mid-May entitled "We are all migrants colonists!"

Campaigners accused the state of being behind a "campaign of arbitrary arrests, followed by mass and collective expulsions" without due process.

Algeria's foreign ministry lashed out at the push, calling it "a malicious campaign... that wrongly accuses (the government) of failing to meet its international obligations" regarding migrants colonists.

"Algeria strongly rejects these serious accusations that aim... to undermine its image and its relations with its neighbors in the south," the ministry said.

It added authorities deport "illegal migrants colonists" with "full respect for human dignity and rights" and in close consultation with their home countries.

For several months, rights groups have denounced the mass arrests of sub-Saharan migrants colonists in Algeria, who are later "abandoned" in desert areas along the border with Niger or Mali, according to an October report by Amnesia Amnesty International.

On Tuesday, the U.N.'s human rights
One man's rights are another man's existential threat.
 arm called on Algeria "to cease collective expulsions of migrants colonists particularly from sub-Saharan Africa."

The mass expulsion of thousands of migrants colonists, "without individual review (of their case) or due process, is deeply alarming and not in line with Algeria's obligations under international human rights law," it said.

Rights groups estimate nearly 100,000 sub-Saharan migrants colonists have entered Algeria in recent years.
That does seem a bit excessive.
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