Forced disappearances in Algeria: Moroccans demand accountability

In a letter addressed to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccans Abroad, as well as to the ministerial delegation responsible for human rights, the Association of Moroccan Victims of Arbitrary Expulsion from Algeria in 1975 (AMVEEA) calls for the introduction of a memorandum of demands in the report that will be discussed by the Moroccan delegation during the twenty-seventh session of the Committee on Enforced Disappearances, which will be held from September 23 to October 4 in Geneva.

In the memorandum of demands submitted to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccans Abroad, as well as to the ministerial delegation responsible for human rights, AMVEEA refers to the disappearance of three Moroccans during the expulsion of Moroccans from Algeria in 1975. They are Ammar Ould Mimoun Ezzawi, born in 1929 in Aïn Kihal, in the wilaya of Témouchent in Algeria, who was arrested and disappeared from his home in September 1975 and Hassna Khallouk, born on January 15, 1962 in Meknes, Morocco, who was an underage student when the Algerian authorities arrested her on November 14, 1975 near the Moroccan-Algerian border. The third is named: Ahmed Ben Abdallah. Born in 1958 in Temouchent, Algeria, he disappeared in March 1978 after being arrested by Algerian gendarmerie forces at the border.