Stolen - Interview with UNHCR, Ursula Aboubacar.

This video is made available because of accusations made by the interviewee that we manipulated her interview. Below are her claims in an e-mail she sent to the filmmakers and the Australian Press, on the 21 June 2009:

"I stated clearly from the very beginning and on several occasions throughout the interview that never any case of slavery has been brought to the attention of UNHCR (which obviously you did not like and made you very aggressive creating a very stressful interview situation, at least Violeta, not Dan). I also stated: IF there would have been any cases about that practice in the camps being brought to the attention of UNHCR we WOULD have brought it to the attention of the police forces in the camps as an abuse of human rights, but as this never happened, there was no need for it.
While you were continuing focussing on slavery practices in the camps only, I explained to you that can not be an issue to the camps only, but its an issue to be seen in a regional, traditional and cultural practice which will take long tome to completely eradicate. This was the only moment I mentioned the camps as, per se, they are part of the sub-region. Again, you manipulated theses statements in the most abusive way and took them out of their context for your own purposes.
I am ready to clarify and correct this to whom ever is asking me."

Ursula.

Ursula S. Aboubacar
Deputy Director
Bureau for Middle East and North Africa

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Deputy Director
• UN
• Antonio Guterres
• Kamal Fadel
• North Africa
• United Nations
• Ayala
• Fallshaw
• controversial
• misleading
• ABC

[demaxio]

PROOF THAT EVEN THE UNHCR IS CORRUPTED !!!

[balam00000000]

Corrupt systems, specially those who abuse human rights, will do anything to maintain the status quo. They will intimidate and attack those who unearth their abusive practices. It is obvious who is in the wrong here. Kudos to the courageous filmmakers.

[Samangan]

The film makers were obviously paid by Morocco to spread more anti-Sahrawi propaganda. Violeta Ayala should go back to Bolivia to do documentaries on her own people (indigenous Bolivians) and stop pretending to be a fake Aussie, speaking poor English and claiming to be defending human rights in Western Sahara. She is a good example of a chola, an indigenous who has given up her culture and traditions and assumed Western attitudes and habits, including corruption.

[glparramatta]

Like dogs with a bone, these filmmakers continue to lie about Polisariao, the liberation movement in Western Sahara, is complicit in the existance of slavery in its camps. In fact, it is only Polisario that is combatting the remnants of these backward cultural practices in the camps, and doing so successfully. Polisario does not deny that these pratices have not 100% eradicated. But this film lied about its subject being a slave.