Polisario Child Soldier That Taints The Visit From Mistura To Tindouf

• Sahrawi children are forced to move to Cuba, with the aim of indoctrinating them ideologically, subjecting them to military training and exploiting them while depriving them of all contact with their families. • This forced immigration is considered a serious violation of the provisions of the Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, hence the civil and criminal liability of Polisario leaders and their accomplices. • The Polisario armed movement continues its massive enlistment of children and minors as soldiers, to fill the void that threatens the survival of the separatist entity. • In this wake, the French NGO “International Alliance for the Defense of Rights and Freedoms (AIDL)”, published, on 04.01.2021, a statement condemning the recruitment of child soldiers by the Polisario front. • The NGO in question reiterated its total condemnation of the recruitment and exploitation of children in conflict and war zones, qualifying this act as an international crime which requires prosecution and international monitoring of all those involved. . The leaders of the Polisario armed movement must explain and provide clarifications on the enlistment of children, recalling, in this regard, that "any recruitment of children, their exploitation and their involvement in conflicts and wars is completely prohibited and criminalized in international law”. • The military recruitment of children is prohibited by all international conventions and treaties, namely the Charter of the United Nations, the Charter of Human Rights, the International Covenants on Political, Economic and Social Law, the Convention on the Rights of the Child of 1989, the Vancouver principles, the Paris principles, and Resolution 2602 in operative paragraph 1. • Weapons are given to children instead of looking after their education and development. • The Polisario anchors criminal values ​​in children through the use of weapons. • Algeria must assume its responsibility for crimes against children's rights in the Tindouf camps, since they are committed on its territory. • Several images and videos show the training that the Polisario officials to Sahrawi children in the Tindouf Camps. • Sahrawi children are recruited without the consent of their parents. • All Sahrawi children are forced to participate in all military and political ceremonies. The last visit of the Personal Envoy of the UN SG for the Sahara to Tindouf is the perfect illustration of this. • Sahrawi children are indoctrinated from an early age to hate Morocco. . Sahrawi children are sent to the front line to deter the intervention of Moroccan forces.