I'm not big and I have no desire nor the time to stand up against official speeches and supporters. But I can not remain indifferent to certain words written or spoken.
"Lie, lie, there will always be something," said Voltaire. Some are now well understood. I can only speak of what I know, the Sahrawi camps. To live there regularly for 3 years. The statements reported are all direct testimony.
Having prisoners gives legitimacy to humanity than that claims. Some do not deprive themselves of the claim, a hue and cry.
Sahrawi refugees in Tindouf camps are not prisoners of the Algerian regime and a "gang of separatists," as chants the Royal Moroccan newspaper MAP (Maghreb Arab Press). One need only go there to realize that "faithful subjects hostages" are men and women who fled before two armies of occupation (Moroccan and Mauritanian) and claiming a free republic in exile 35 years.
Going up finally at the request of Morocco. Sahrawi refugees are asking nothing else than to be visited, inspected. Require them to be in the camps and on the other side of the wall undermined, the longest in the world. Who really now refuses transparency visits of commissions of inquiry and the media? And in my case, I've never felt so free and safe environment that refugee camp of El Aaiun.
If there are prisoners in the camps, prisoners were Moroccan soldiers, the last were freed in 2005. Some are also returned to live in camps following the reception they were subject when they return to Morocco. I spoke with one of them, former Aviation Moroccan, who made me understand that it was more useful than free prisoner in Morocco and that he did understand.
Another controversy: In recent months, a Saharawi and Moroccan side past who chose to return to convince naive or a more subtly calculated?, Brothers camps of the merits of the proposed unilateral Moroccan was arrested at his return to the camps. The Polisario had quickly agreed to his release at the request of a humanitarian commission. Envoy to UNHCR, in charge of his plane ride to Morocco, was notified at the last moment the decision of this mission and the prohibition of this release ... by the Moroccan authorities. Again, the man was more useful as a prisoner free!
Real Saharawi prisoners in Western Sahara or in Moroccan prisons. Those camps are being held hostage by those who wish to interest the situation persists.
A list of some 500 forced disappearances during the reign of Hassan II were added those of recent years and in recent weeks following the destruction Camp Gdeim Izik.
I live in this amazing world where I saw women at first relieved to learn that their husbands would appear before special courts because they thought they were wounded or missing, then a second time in desperate seeing them unrecognizable. A world where I have heard claims of child claiming that frees their fathers imprisoned for over a year without trial, a mother on hunger strike finding more necessary to fight for justice and future of his people rather than staying alive for his own children.
I still hear a young Sahrawi woman, teaching French at the camp of El Aaiun, tell me his joy at seeing his family in the occupied territories for the first time in his life (through exchange programs between camps and occupied territories), tell me the surprise of seeing a city and ocean also for the very first time. But I can not forget her tears when she concluded: Despite living in camps here at least we are safe, we do not have to suffer the abuse that I saw there!
I met people in the camps exile, suffering and hoping against curiously free to express the mix of humanity.
I met Mandela in North Africa, Mohamed Daddach, 26 years in prison, Daffa, Dahane, Naciri, Tamek, Asfari, recognized and rewarded as defenders of Human Rights and non-violent, and how many others, all imprisoned and tortured that their only men's voices, much better than Voltaire said:
"Testify, testify to the truth. To be certain no silence or lies! "
On 16 December 2010, Jean-François Debargue
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