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Rabat – Polisario activist Sultana Khaya has refused to meet a delegation from Morocco’s Human Rights Council (CNDH).
Moroccan state news agency MAP reported today that Khaya declined to receive the CNDH delegation at her house in Boujdour, in the Laayoune-Sakia El Hamra region in southern Morocco.
The delegation went to investigate alleged human rights violations the self-proclaimed pacifist activist has been accusing Morocco of.
A video of Sultana Khaya speaking to CNDH from a window on the roof of where she lives shows the pro-Polisario activist displaying the separatist front’s flag while pressing claims of human rights violations by Morocco.
In the video, Khaya is also seen chanting slogans against Morocco’s territorial integrity and supporting Polisario’s independence claims over Western Sahara
The CNDH delegation included Abdelmajid Belgahazal, advisor to the CNDH president, Taoufiq al Bradji, head of the regional human rights committee in Laayoune-Sakia El Hamra, Mourad Ragheb, director of the office of the President of the Council, among other members.
Khaya, who works to promote Polisario and Algeria’s claims of “Sahrawi decolonization” to challenge Morocco’s territorial integrity over its southern region, presents herself as a human rights activist.
From January 1-12 in 2019, however, Khaya participated in Polisario’s military training and exercises.
Footage and pictures of Khaya holding rifles and calling for war against Morocco went viral recently, prompting many to question her self-presentation as a pacifist human rights activist.
Morocco has long warned the UN of the Polisario Front’s self-proclaimed peace activists whose bellicose rhetoric promotes war in defiance of the ongoing UN-led process to find a compromise-based and sustainable political solution to the Western Sahara dispute.
On November 17 of last year, Morocco’s Permanent Ambassador to the UN Omar Hilale sent a letter to members of the Security Council to detail Khaya’s involvement with an armed branch of the Polisario Front.
“With regard to the so-called Sultana Khaya, in particular, it is worth wondering since when have human rights activists been in military training, with the Kalashnikov slung over their shoulders?” Hilale asked in the letter.
