Algeria Human rights leader ask non governmental organisations to apologise

Non-governmental organisations should apologise for offending Algeria in the 1990’s, said president of the Consultative Commission for the Promotion of Human Rights.

• Farouk Ksentini believes that those organisations may not be authorised to visit Algeria in September to check about human rights situation.
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• “Some non-governmental organisations supported terrorism and accused the State of being anti-democracy. They did their best to give a bad image about Algeria’s image,” he told a news conference.
• “These organisations were not invited to visit Algeria and they should apologise for what they did to the country,” he added.
• Algeria is expected to start receiving a number of non-governmental organisations in September to check about human rights situation.
• They represent Morocco, France, Spain, Italy, Britain and Canada. Members of the The United Nations Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR) were also invited to check whether women are subject to violence.
• Ksentini said the issue of missing people is definitively over, refusing to talk about trialling the people behind the 1990’s tragic events in the country. “The Charter for the National Peace which was voted by 85 percent treated this issue definitively.”
• President of the commission for following up the implementation of the Charter for Peace said the number of missing people is estimated at 6,541. Death certificates were issued for 6,420 people and their families got compensations as they were set by the State.
• He added that work is underway on 124 other cases while 12 cases are suspended because their families insist on knowing about the truth.
• “Cases of people living abroad who are involved in the charter for peace will be treated soon.”
• Ksentini gave a positive toll about his commission’s work due to the improvement of human rights situation in Algeria. “Some insufficiencies are due to the lack of human rights culture among individuals. There is a deficiency in many aspects including audiovisual sector and administration which is still dominated by bureaucracy.”