Permanent Representative of Morocco to the UN, Omar Hilale raised alarm on Friday over the Polisario’s front recruitment of child soldiers and training them for military parades in Tindouf camps.
“There is an issue that deeply concerns Morocco, in particular and the international community in general, it is the military enlistment of children in the Tindouf camps,” Hilale said in an intervention before the C24, organized by the United Nations in Dominica (25 to 27 August).
He showed the room dozens of photos of young children, carrying weapons in military parades and training militarily in the Tindouf camps.
“The representative of Algeria claims that there is no proof. Here are the photos and even videos of the so-called polisario’s own sites, showing dozens of children in military uniforms, even bare chests, in training sorting. These photos terribly overwhelm his country ”, said the Moroccan ambassador. “
He said these children risk becoming “terrorists, like those of Daesh Khorassan, shown this very day in the channels of CNN, BBC or France 24, before and after the terrorist attack he committed at Kabul airport.”
He said in the Tindouf camps, children undergo “intensive training and fanatic indoctrination.”
“This highlights the direct international responsibility of Algeria, because this forced military enrollment of children is taking place on its territory ,” he denounced.
“It is extremely serious that Algeria, which is party to all international conventions, covenants and declarations on the rights of the child, allows an armed group to indoctrinate children to wage war, to carry out military operations , to become commandos, killers. Instead of offering them school, education, art, songs.”
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