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To the Members
of the United Nations Security Council
United Nations Headquarters
New York

Declaration for the Human Rights of the 1,476 Moroccan Prisoners of War

With the Report of its General Secretary on the West-Sahara conflict of June 22, 2001, the UNO finally was given a extremely concerned description of the situation of the Moroccan prisoners of war that has been holding in camps in the Tindouf area of Algeria more than 20 years.

Moroccan prisoners held by the Polisario Front were visited by four International Committee of the Red Cross delegates, from 11 to 25 May 2001. The delegates saw prisoners and assessed their general living conditions and their health. The ICRC is extremely concerned about the very long period during which these men have been detained, most for over 20 years. In view of their age, their state of health and the duration of their captivity, as well as the provisions of international humanitarian law, the ICRC has long maintained that the prisoners should be released without delay, and that the most infirm should be the first to be freed.

In the face of the suffering of this Moroccan prisoners living in Tindouf, under inhuman conditions, deep in the Sahara, still hoping for be freed and returning to their families in Morocco;
suffer continued human rights violations;
this Report by the General Secretary Mr Kofi Annan presents an incredible treatment of this Moroccan people and their human rights for freedom.

As world citizens, we categorically demand the UN Security Council, in cooperating with ICRC, in this humanitarian endeavour to put more influence to the POLISARIO to immediate freeing the Moroccan prisoners.

Yours is the responsibility for the preservation of human rights of the regions of today's world.

Sincerely