Rabika: The state takes care of the victims of mines planted by colonialism – Al-Hiwar Al-Jazaeryia

Minister of Mujahideen and People with Rights, Eid Rabika, confirmed that the state has worked since independence to take care of the victims of mines planted by French colonialism during the revolution, through a “conscious” national policy.
Rabika appreciated the “pioneering and important” role played by the People’s National Army in clearing the mined border areas.

In a historical symposium on “Mines between colonial crime and the state’s efforts to address their effects and limit their damage,” the organization commemorated the International Day for Awareness of the Mine Threat corresponding to April 4 of each year.

Rabika highlighted the efforts of the Algerian state since independence in the field of health, social and psychological care for mine victims through a “conscious national policy” that began – as he said – with the issuance of legal and regulatory texts for the protection, promotion and compensation of victims and their rights holders.

In this context, the Ministry of Mujahideen is keen on “enabling the disabled, mine victims, and civilians to benefit from these rights through sponsorship operations aimed at upgrading quality services, especially in the National Center for Equipping the Injured in the National Liberation War and those with rights and its appurtenances, treatment rooms, muscular rehabilitation, and psychological support for the victims.”

Rabika did not miss the opportunity to praise the “pioneering and important” role played by the People’s National Army in clearing the mined and polluted border areas and removing the remnants of explosives planted by the colonialists during the war of liberation.
Rabika stressed that this role “is an indication of the national army’s commitment to the embodiment of the national program for demining, as stipulated in the Ottawa Convention to ban the use of mines, which Algeria signed in December 1997, and which touched 93 mined areas, 78 of which were on the lines of Shawl and Morris.”