[NORTHAFRICAPOST] The tragedy of children turned into soldiers by the separatist militia of the "polisario" with the blessing and support of the host country, Algeria, in the camps of Tindouf
| ...near the Mauritanian, Western Saharan and Moroccan borders and headquarters of the Polisario Front guerrillas. The Polisario Front, which has a much longer name in several languages, is the expression of the will to independence of the native nomads of the Western Sahara region, the Sahrawis, in their fight first against Spain and afterward against Morocco, a fight Algeria has been perfectly happy to support since 1973. Of course they allow children to volunteer for this noble cause as soon as they can stand without much assistance... |
was vigorously denounced, Thursday, before the 4th Committee of the UN General Assembly in New York.
Thus, the president of the Christian Democratic Women International, Anna Maria Stame, spoke out against the methods used by the separatist movement in southwest Algeria to recruit children and subject them to training "that even adults cannot stand".
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