Refuting Kerry Kennedy’s account in the Huffington Post.

Kerry Kennedy and her daughter Maria Cuomo-Kennedy of the Robert Fitzgerald Kennedy Centre (RFKC) for Human Rights visited the Western Sahara to assess the Human Rights situation there. Mr Miniter said that they are naïve liberals and points out the Polisario Front are linked to Al Qaeda and drug smugglers. Morocco is an ally of America in its fight against terrorists and the Polisario issue is being used to undermine Morocco and destabalise the region.
 

Mr Miniter accuses Kerry Kennedy and her daughter, who visited the Polisario camps, of giving propaganda value to the Polisario  who imprison their own people and their hosts Algeria. He doubts that the men who Kerry Kennedy says aggressed her in Laayoune and attacked her daughter were Moroccan plain close policeman and he suggests her article in the Huffington Post was exaggerated. He says that Kerry Kennedy and the RFKC specialise in attacking human rights abuses by American allies. He acknowledges that  Ms. Kennedy did some good work documenting genuine abuses in Sudan, China and Burma. However she now focuses on America’s allies from the Cold War and the war on terror, Mr Miniter says.
 
Mr Miniter concludes that he visited the Polisario camps in 2010 and met inhabitants who had been tortured by the Polisario.He met Mohammed Abduaziz who declared  his admiration of totalitarian  regimes. Mr Miniter says Kerry Kennedy should investigate the human rights abuses in Algeria her host, who Mr Miniter says is among the most repressive regimes  in the Arab world after Syria.