A day of risk of mines recalling the past of separatist militias in the Moroccan Sahara

Despite the silence of the war defender in the desert more than three decades ago, the mines planted by the Polisario in the desert, during his war with Morocco in the mid -1970s of the last century, continued randomly to harvest more victims; These mines buried in the sands of the desert caused many of them in handicaps and handicaps that have transformed their lives into hell.

On the occasion of the International Day of Mine awareness, which was approved by the United Nations General Assembly on April 4 of each year, in order to support national efforts in the field of mine and wars and “help ordinary citizens to live without fear that their bad stage costs them their lives”, collective activities interested in this problem have called for the propagation of societal consciousness and the mobilization of collective activities Killer, who continues to harvest lives and distort bodies.

Maps and awareness

“Mine constitutes a global threat that threatens many civilian citizens in a number of countries and conflict areas,” said Othman, general writer of the Union of Mine Victim Associations in the southern regions of the kingdom.

The Secretary General of the Union of Mine Victim Associations in the southern regions of the kingdom, in a declaration to the Hespress electronic newspaper, stressed that “a set of explosion incidents of mines planted by the Polisario in the desert in a random and without cards in the 1970s of the last century, which resulted in a number of civil and military victims”.

The same spokesperson continued that “the absence of cards from these planted mines planted in the desert is difficult to purify”, stressing that “Morocco has made great progress in the field of compensation for victims, despite the presence of problems in the limits of compensation allegations of some of them”.

In this regard, he declared that “the victims trained a framework for them represented in the union of associations, which will endeavor to argue this file and to highlight the suffering of the victims and their families, in addition to the internationalization of this case, and why not deposit a legal action against the Polisario to put them pressure in order to discover the cards of the mines.

On the other hand, the collective actor stressed “the importance of engaging in the various spectra of Moroccan civil society, as well as the school and the media, in efforts to raise awareness and awareness of the danger of mines in the desert and their physical and psychological implications for citizens, according to their social and moral responsibilities in this regard.”

Consciousness and efforts

“The spread of mines is one of the main factors that propagate terror among civilians and has humanitarian workers, United Nations missions and their employees in danger,” said Abdel -wahab Al -kayen, deputy coordinator of the Sahrawi NGO alliance.

Al -kayen added, in a statement to Hespress, that “the world immortalizes the international day of awareness of the mine and by providing assistance in the work related to its abolition, under the slogan” From there, the construction of the sure future begins “Mines.

The spokesman stressed that “the armed conflict between Morocco and the Polisario, supported by the former Algerian army and the Libyan Jamahiriya, led to the planting of millions of mines against individuals and vehicles along the area surrounding the safety wall during the first years of the epidemic.”

He added: “Consequently, Morocco has spared no effort to deal with this problem linked to the lives of individuals and groups by addressing the areas of the mines risk, because the work of an army sector led engineering work to clean the desert land of the minefields without having cards to follow the contact details of minor areas.”

The civilian actor also stressed that “Morocco has succeeded in this company to a large extent, despite certain specialties in the fact of meeting the needs linked to the victims and the injured and the members of their family. Those who have local rights, as well as the knowledge and identification of the conditions of the victims, the information linked to them, their request file and their concerns.

He stressed that “Morocco does not hesitate to engage in surveying and cleaning of the southern regions of anti-individuals, vehicles and unploded ammunition. Mine and the area of ​​the area concerned by purification operations.