The symposium on Violations of the right to life: the systematic nature of arbitrary executions committed by the polisario and the responsibility of the host country, organized parallel to the 51st session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) in Geneva, concluded that since the installation of the Tindouf camps in the south-west of Algeria, the Algerian security services and the polisario front have committed massive violations of human rights - with the humanitarian atrocities which accompany- against the background of the conflict in the Sahara.
Although the polisario has acknowledged that human rights violations have occurred in the past, it has not provided clear data relating to enforced disappearances, abductions, extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, torture in detention centers, or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, according to the organizers: Promotion of Economic and Social Development "PDES-NGO" and International Observatory for Peace, Democracy and Human Rights , Geneva “IOPDHR-GENEVA”.
The polisario remains an organization escaping all control, despite the serious crimes and violations it has committed since its creation. Indeed, the polisario has made the Tindouf camps a platform to order kidnappings, lootings and arbitrary and terrorist attacks, causing thousands of victims, not only among the residents of the Tindouf camps, but also Mauritania, Mali, South Korea, France, Spain and Morocco. Thus, the polisario has caused victims following armed land operations or by attacks against boats and ships near the coasts of neighboring countries.
Nearly five decades of violations and inhuman treatment, the most significant of which have been torture and arbitrary executions, have passed in a climate of impunity, where the Algerian redress mechanisms: the only authority responsible for investigating all violations committed on its territory, refused to process or examine any file relating to the violations committed by the polisario.
The polisario, was imposed by the Algerian authorities to carry out its role in the management of the affairs of the camps, in violation of the provisions of international law, benefiting from the immunity and protection of the host country, regardless of the gravity violations, escaping the control of the UN mechanisms concerned with the protection of human rights.
Although the right to life is guaranteed by article 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, exceptional circumstances, including a state of war, the threat of war, internal political instability or any other emergency situation, cannot be invoked to justify extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions.
However, the polisario has continued, for decades, to flagrantly violate the right to life through arbitrary and extrajudicial executions, while inciting violence and murders, through successive calls by its board at congresses and media outlets calling for escalation, resistance and struggle on all fronts. In this context, the polisario board exploits and mobilizes women and children to export violence and murder outside the camps, as the only way to intimidate its detractors.
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