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Birth of Sea-lost persons association Birth of Sea-lost persons association

700 illegal immigrants lost this year
Wednesday May 24 2006.

The president of The Sea-lost persons association “Harraga”, in Oran, unveiled that the latter has counted about 700 cases of disappeared persons caused by clandestine immigration in the western wilayas of the country this year.




And this according to testimonies by the families of the disappeared persons in numerous wilayas of the west, and who, most of them, were heading towards Spain and Morocco. The new-born association started its communications with the Moroccan and Spanish governments and a number of active organisations in both countries, especially the Red Crescent and the Red Cross, plus the organisation for sea-lost persons in Morocco.

The aim of these communications is to have information on the Algerian illegal immigrants. Mr Belhaj Bouraada declared that three members from his association will head towards Morocco in the aim to meet representatives from the Moroccan organisation that is studying for many years the phenomenon and the search of information about the disappeared persons, especially that morocco is being considered as the main passage for illegal immigrants towards the Spanish towns Ceuta and Melilia.

The interlocutor from the Spanish government demanded the facilitation of the association’s mission through making it easy to enter the Spanish soil to identify the recovered corpses that are being kept in different mortuaries in Spain, plus the search for persons that are living in diasporas in order to provide information to the benefit of their families.

On the other hand, the president of the association considered that the on going procedures in cooperation with the red crescent didn’t advance, so far, complete information about the disappeared persons in the context of the illegal immigration, considering the nature of the red crescent tasks, the thing that pushed the concerned families to create an association that aims to communicate with different official and unofficial organisations in the European countries that are concerned with the immigration dossier. All this is aimed at providing information on their loved ones.

This initiative comes, according to Bouraada, after the ignoring attitudes showed by the Algerian authorities towards the dossier that “our authorities are avoiding it on official and unofficial occasions, although the phenomenon took an international dimensions and it is not limited to the Algerian youth in particular”. In front of this situation, the victims’ families urge the president of the republic to intervene to activate the dossier of illegal immigration and to fulfil the promises given to the youths during his electoral campaign.

M. Buzana — El-Khabar

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