From: jisrawi@physics.rutgers.edu (najeh jisrawi)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.french
Subject: Algeria: Human right violations with the benediction of .....
Date: 5 Nov 92 19:14:20 GMT
Article-I.D.: ruhets.9211051914.AA12208
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* Volume 1 - Number 2                      Rabi Tani 1413  -  October 1992 *
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		 *  Letter from Reggane   *
                 * (a concentration camp) *
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Assalamu Alaikum,

	I'm writing to you to let you know about the condi-
tions of your brothers detained in the death camps deep in the 
desert. We were arrested on February 9 at night. Some of us 
were in their pajamas. 12 of us spent the first two nights in a 
local jail in a 2m by 2m cell. We were not even allowed to 
go out of the cell to do ablution to perform our prayers. We 
were then taken to Reggan, near Adrar, deep in the Sahara. 
For five months, with temperature of more than 50 degrees 
centigrade, life was extremely harsh. We could not even 
sleep because of the heat and the insects. As for the food you 
could not even give it to animals. We either had lentils, 
beans, peas or noodles. We often had diarrhea because of the 
lack of hygiene. There are no toilettes, we have to do our 
business in the open. You can imagine how the situations is 
like when you have 3007 people. When we get sick they give 
us medicine which is past its perishable date. We did not see 
our families for 5 months, and for the first two months we 
were not allowed to receive or send any letters or telephone 
calls. Our families did not even know where we were. Some 
of our brothers were murdered inside the camp when they 
claimed the right to be treated as political prisoners.
	On June 29 we were moved to the camp of Oued 
Namous. The place is full of scorpions, snakes, and other 
venomous reptiles. There are also wolves and other animals. 
Four brothers escaped. Two returned when they could not 
continue because the nearest town (Bechar) is 200 km away. 
The other two were later found dead. The situations is still 
unbearable. I could go on and on, but will never be able to 
convey to you the harshness of our living conditions. But our 
spirit is higher than ever. We know we are working for a just 
cause. Algeria is now between two distinct choices: to be 
ruled by the Book of Allah and the traditions of His prophet, 
or be governed by the franco-communists, so-called demo-
crats, who want to subjugate Algeria to the will of their mas-
ters. In short, Algeria is now in a state of war between Kufr 
and Islam, and the people are behind Islam. Even the pagan 
media is now realizing this. It has conceived that it cannot 
escape from the tyranny of the junta, if it deviates from its 
line. With the country crumbling under masses of problems, 
the regime will not, InshaAllah, last for much longer.  
Your brother Salah Abu Ayman.
(published in ADHWAA Newsletter Vol.1 No. 3, Sept. 1992)


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