Algeria has accused Morocco of carrying out “targeted assassinations” this Tuesday, an attack that allegedly took place on the desert border between both countries, and “resulted in three deaths.”
In a statement, the Algerian government “strongly condemned the targeted assassinations committed with sophisticated weapons of war by the Kingdom of Morocco, outside its internationally recognized borders, against innocent civilians, nationals of three countries in the region.”
According to the same statement, “these belligerent practices are similar to repeated acts of state terrorism, that take the form of extrajudicial executions liable to prosecution before the competent bodies of the United Nations system.”
“The targeting of civilians through intentional and premeditated killings constitutes a serious systemic violation of international humanitarian law that must be vigorously denounced and resolutely deterred,” read the statement.
The Algerian Foreign Ministry said such attacks pose “serious risks of potentially perilous regional drifts.”
Moroccan air forces, according to Algiers’ scenario, would have carried out an attack against “an Algerian merchant convoy made up of two trucks” this Sunday in the early morning.
Neither Morocco nor Mauritania have commented on the alleged attack, as of this time.
In November 2021, three Algerian truck drivers were killed following an alleged Moroccan drone strike. Following this operation, the UN confirmed that “the drivers had entered a high-risk zone, also known as a buffer zone.”
The spokesman for the UN secretary-general, Farhan Haq, said he had “no explanation as to why the trucks are where they are” after a Minurso patrol was sent to the site of the alleged incident.
A month earlier, on Saturday, September 11, 2021, four Moroccan drivers were hit by an armed attack in Didieni, about 300 km north of Bamako.
The Moroccan Embassy in Bamako reported that “two truckers were killed, one was wounded, and a fourth driver survived the attack,” adding that the two bodies were transported to Bamako for care.
This Monday, April 11, units of the so-called “Sahrawi People’s Liberation Army” (SPLA) claimed new attacks against positions of Moroccan forces in the sectors of Guetla, El-Mehbes and Outizgui, said the military statement released by the seperatist Polisario front, indicating that the SPLA attacks against Moroccan forces are ongoing.
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