Khadijettou Mohamed Mahmoud describes her ordeal as victim of rape by a Polisario member – The North Africa Post

Sahrawi girl Khadijettou Mohamed Mahmoud has described her ordeal after she was raped by a polisario member when she was 18-year previous.

The younger girl, who was taking part in a convention below the theme “Sexual violence in politics”, held in Düsseldorf, Germany, Thursday March 16, 2023, described the sufferings she endured after having been raped in 2010 on the age of 18 by Brahim Ghali, then Polisario’s consultant in Algiers and present chief of the separatist motion.

Khadijatou, who labored as a translator within the camps from 2005 to 2010, had sued  Ghali at a Spanish courtroom the identical yr.

She denounced earlier than the convention the shortage of help from society typically, in addition to the responsible silence of the Algerian authorities who lined up this sexual assault.

Khadijettou highlighted her tough however ongoing wrestle to acquire justice within the courts of Spain, the place she resides.

She then described how human rights are systematically flouted within the Polisario-controlled Tindouf camps in addition to the appalling dwelling circumstances of the populations sequestered in these camps reside, earlier than denouncing the endemic corruption which prevails among the many management of the separatist motion in addition to the embezzlement of worldwide humanitarian assist by these identical leaders.

Khadijettou Mohamed Mahmoud ended her handle by calling on German authorities to make extra efforts to advertise the rights of Sahrawi girls and women within the Tindouf camps.

The opposite audio system taking part within the convention, held within the “Das Gerhart-Hauptmann-Haus” Basis, included Ms. Sarah Lee Heinrich, President of the Federal Youth Workplace of the German Greens; Mrs. Franziska Brandmann, President of the Federal Workplace of German Liberal Youth; Ms Christina Kampmann, Spokesperson for Dwelling Affairs of the SPD Parliamentary Group within the Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia; and Mrs. Tessniem Kadiri, journalist and presenter on German tv.