Sahara Occidental: ex-pinochetista defames the Sahrawi people with "fake news"

In mid-December some Argentine media published a statement released by Juan Carlos Moraga Duque, who presents himself as president of the “refoundation” of the NGO Human Rights Without Borders.

The statement says that Moraga Duque participated in an alleged meeting with Mothers of Plaza de Mayo Línea Fundadora in Buenos Aires, and that there he accused the Polisario Front that governs Western Sahara of using “torture” and “political persecution”.

This is a crude disinformation operation by a nefarious character who acts at the service of the Moroccan crown., to try to delegitimize the just struggle of the Sahrawi people against the Moroccan occupation of their country and for their self-determination.

First, the supposed meeting with Mothers of Plaza de Mayo Línea Foundadora never took place, as its president Nora Cortiñas denounced.

Secondly, The supposed NGO Human Rights Without Borders exists only virtually and is unknown to the human rights institutions and movements of Latin America..

By last, Juan Carlos Moraga Duque himself is very far from being able to present himself as a representative of human rights. He was a collaborator of the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile, His party supported the Pinochet regime in the plebiscite of 1988 and then nominated Pablo Rodríguez Grez as his presidential candidate, founder of the far-right movement Patria y Libertad after having been one of the main promoters of the coup 1973.

The disinformation unfortunately spread by some Argentine media is a maneuver by Morocco and its employee Moraga Duque to try to discredit the Sahrawi struggle and justify the bloody Moroccan occupation of Western Sahara..

It is the Kingdom of Morocco that violates the human rights of the Sahrawis on a daily basis, chasing, torturing, murdering and disappearing people in the occupied territories and dispossessing and plundering the entire Sahrawi people of their territory and resources.

From the International Socialist League, We repudiate the actions of Moraga Duque and the Kingdom of Morocco and reaffirm our international campaign to support the Sahrawi struggle against the Moroccan occupation and for the self-determination of its people.