Criticism
In 2008, the head of CORCAS and former leader of the PUNS Khellihenna Ould Rachid declared:
- "Some Moroccan army officers have made what might be called war crimes against prisoners outside the scope of the war ...Many civilians were launched into space from helicopters or buried alive simply for being Sahrawis".
In an interview with the independent Moroccan weekly magazine Le Journal Hebdomadaire, CORCAS member El Houcine Baïda and alleged former victim of human rights abuses by the Polisario, and head of PASVERTI (Association of Sahrawi victims of repression in the Tindouf Camps), as chairman of the Human Rights Commission within CORCAS, complained about the lack of tackling human rights issues, and about the way CORCAS president Khellihenna runs the Council. In his opinion, the country's actions in the Western Sahara were alienating Sahrawis, and thus could push more youth towards what he defined as "separatism". He further claimed that most of the organization's members were allowed no knowledge of the government's autonomy plan - that they were supposedly responsible for drafting - and that CORCAS chairman Khellihenna Ould Errachid runs the council's affairs despotically, like "a new Franco".
Read more about this topic: Royal Advisory Council For Saharan Affairs
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