It is a long suffering that the sahraoui Khadijetou Mohamed Mahmoud described during a conference, held on Thursday March 16 at the Das Gerhart-Hauptmann-Haus Foundation in Düsseldorf, Germany, recounting how she was raped in 2010, at the age of 18, by Brahim Ghali, then polisario representative in Algiers and current leader of the separatist movement.
Held on the theme "sexual violence in politics", the conference was an opportunity for Khadijetou to recount her rape while working as a translator in the camps in 2010. She recalls the proceedings initiated against Bahim Ghali before the Spanish courts, while saying she is determined to continue her difficult fight but determined to obtain justice in Spain, where she resides.
She also denounced the lack of support from society in general, but above all the culpable silence of the Algerian regime, whose leaders carefully concealed this sexual assault.
The description of the painful situation in which the population of the Tindouf camps in Algeria lives was one of the highlights of this conference, which was also attended by Mrs. Sarah Lee Heinrich, President of the Federal Youth Office of the German Greens, Ms Franziska Brandmann, President of the Federal Office of German Liberal Youth, Ms Christina Kampmann, Spokesperson for Home Affairs of the SPD Parliamentary Group in the Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia, and Ms Tessniem Kadiri, Journalist and Presenter of broadcasts on German television.
Khadijetou thus described how human rights are systematically violated in the Tindouf camps, controlled by the separatist polisario front, as well as the terrible living conditions of the populations sequestered in these camps.
Corruption and embezzlement of international humanitarian aid by the leaders of the separatist movement are facts established at the international level that Khadijetou Mohamed Mahmoud strongly denounced during this conference.
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