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Bir Lehlu, 24/09/2008 (SPS) The President of the Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz, called on the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-Moon, to urgently intervene vis-à-vis the Moroccan authorities so as to put an end to the flagrant human rights violations and brutal repression in the occupied territories of Western Sahara.
"We interpellate on you to urgently ensure full protection to innocent human lives and compel Morocco to stop its repression against the defenceless Saharawi citizens in the occupied territories of Western Sahara", the Saharawi President wrote in a letter he addressed to Bsn Ki-Moon.
Mr. Abdelaziz drew the attention of the UN official to the latest developments in the occupied city of Smara, which is currently under complete siege by the different Moroccan armed corpses.
A brutal intervention by the Moroccan security services stroke the Saharawi citizens of Smara last Monday, "only because they demand their legitimate rights to self-determination and independence", the Saharawi President regretted.
"It is not possible to indefinitely accept the persistence of such human rights violations, which are reported and documented by different human rights organisations, mainly the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and since the territory is under the responsibility of the UN, through its mission on the ground", the letter stresses.
The Head of the Saharawi State said that the Saharawis demand the truth about more than 500 Saharawi victims of forced disappearance, more than 151 prisoners of war in addition to the release of all the Saharawi prisoners of conscience in the Moroccan jails.
He also stressed that his organisations demands the publication of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights’ 2006 report on Western Sahara, and the implementation of its recommendations, until the decolonisation of the territory through a referendum on self-determination.
He also sent annexes with his letter listing the names of the victims of the latest aggressions perpetrated by the Moroccan colonial authorities against the Saharawi citizens in the occupied city of Smara. (SPS)
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