According to MAP, the Coordination of Families and Friends of the Victims of Gdeim Izik Events reiterates in a statement its call to the various human rights mechanisms to receive the families of the victims and listen to their suffering, especially after their requests were made for that purpose, on the 12th anniversary of the tragic events that occurred in the Gdim Izik camps, which were taken hostage by criminals in the pay of the separatist front, killing 11 members of the Auxiliary Forces, the Royal Gendarmerie, and the Civil Protection.
The Coordination urged to preserve the collective memory of the victims by establishing 8 November as the Remembrance Day of their sacrifices and building a memorial to honor them and a national museum to memorialize these awful events. It also restated its demands for greater attention and assistance to the victims’ families, who are national duty martyrs.
The Coordination expressed surprise at some UN reports that undermine the right of actual victims to justice and redress, directly contradict international conventions, and encourage impunity, denouncing some UN mechanisms’ allegations of “torture” against the detainees who committed these crimes, which openly aim to help these criminals continue to benefit from impunity, said MAP.
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This anniversary sheds light on the crime against humanity flagrantly committed by the polisario militia group gathered on Algerian territory, adding that Algeria should not deny its humanitarian responsibility because the perpetrators of this crime were trained on Algerian territory in Tindouf Camps and at the University of Boumerdes.
This tragic anniversary is commemorated, as it is every year, at a time when the polisario militia group continues to alter the facts, presenting the detainees following these tragic events as prisoners of opinion and expression. However, they were proven guilty in a fair trial that met all of the conditions required by the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Moroccan Constitution, and the Code of Criminal Procedure, according to the Coordination, according to MAP.
It went on to say that the militia’s strategy is an attempt to avoid the United Nations’ human rights processes by fabricating false reports that portray the perpetrators of these criminal actions as human rights activists.
According to the Coordination, the perpetrators fully benefited from their fair trial rights, specifically the right to legal counseling and defense, noting that throughout their trial and by the Istanbul Standards, the court decided to refer the defendants to medical expertise. Still, some of them refused on false and illicit grounds.
The Coordination, on the other hand, stated that “the medical expertise of those who accepted it found that they were not subjected to torture, proving once again that the militia’s charges merely intend to alter facts and cover up its crimes against our kids.” In other words, the militia uses “torture” to politicize the issue and therefore escape punishment for their crimes.