Ramallah: Activists in Morocco have called for the arrest of former Israeli President Shimon Peres should he visit the country, terming him a “child killer.”
Peres is due to visit the Moroccan city of Marrakech between May 5 and 7 as part of a global think tank meeting in the city. The Clinton Global Initiative conference he will attend is an attempt to address the world’s major political, social, and economic crises.
The protests against Peres’ visit have come via facebook, local organizations and also from a group of human rights lawyers.
A Moroccan pro-Palestinian organization “National Action Group for Palestine” which has labelled Peres a “terrorist” has stated that it is employing lawyers to make a former request to the General Prosecutor to prevent the former president from entering Morocco.
Human rights lawyers have also lodged a formal complaint with Morocco’s prosecution authority yesterday.
It said, “Shimon Peres has committed war crimes and crimes against humanity against [Palestinian] civilians.”
