RABAT, Feb. 28- The Moroccan
NGO ‘Watanouna’ (our nation) will organize on March 6 a national march in
support of the Moroccans held against their will in the Tindouf camps (southern
Algeria) by the Algeria-backed Polisario front that is claiming the
separation of Morocco’s southern provinces (known as the Sahara),
announced its vice president, Saâdia Saâdi.
In an interview published Monday by "Assahra Al-Maghribiya" daily, Saâdi
said the action of the NGO, set up on January 20 in Casablanca, is a
message addressed to the international community to work for the
liberation of Moroccan POWs, some of whom have been under detention for
almost three decades.
The march, she added, is also a “message to our brothers who are
sequestered in Tindouf to make them feel our support and our resolve to
fight for their release.”
In addition to the march, “Watanouna” will organize on March 8 – the
international day for women- a meeting in Laayoune (southern Morocco) to
pay tribute to ”sequestered women.”
Saâdi explained that “Watanouna” is the “initiative of women of the civil
society and women associations of all social and professional categories,
that are aware of the tragic situation of the Moroccans sequestered in
Tindouf.”
President of the newly set up association, Naima Elmcherqui, had said in a
release that “Watanouna” aims to draw the attention of the international
public opinion on human rights violations committed in Tindouf camps, and
to denounce the exploitation of families by the Algeria-backed Polisario.
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