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The
enlargement of the mandate of the Minurso to include the defence of the
human rights in the Western Sahara will answer the claims of Polisario Front
and of many international human rights organisations, the Saharawi
Parliamentarians indicated in a statement to the London’s Bureau of the
Algerian Press Service, APS.
"Seen the
explosive situation in the Western Sahara due to the odious policy of
oppression of the Saharawi people’s peaceful intifada, any delay in the
enlargement of the mandate of the Minurso get us close to a second
Srebrenica", the Saharawi Ambassador to South Africa had declared in his
intervention during the aforementioned conference.
The South
African Committee for Human Rights organised on Thursday a seminar under the
theme "the human rights situation in the occupied territories of the Western
Sahara" and declared the "emergency of enlarging the mandate of the MINURSO",
according to a press release issued by the Saharawi Ambassador to South
Africa, it should be recalled.
The
seminar, which was organised at the seat of the South African human rights
organisation, was attended by representatives of the diplomatic corps in
Pretoria, representatives of South African political parties, NGOS,
searchers and journalists, the press release indicated.
In his
intervention, Mr. Mtselsio Thipanyane, Executive Director of the Committee
put forward "the serious human rights violations in the occupied territories
of the Western Sahara, perpetrated by Morocco, which are periodically
denounced in international reports and in concordant testimonies of Saharawi
citizens".
"This is a
major concern for our organisation and our seminar aims to put the head
lines of a work programme that will be organised in coordination with our
partners to ensure a better defence of Saharawis, so as to consecrate the
Saharawi people’s right to self-determination and independence", he added.
During the
seminar, many personalities intervened, including Mr. Ebrahim Saley,
Director of the Department of North Africa in the South African FA Ministry,
Mr. Eddy Makue, Secretary General of the South African Council of Churches,
Mr. Oubbi Bouchraya Bachir, Saharawi Ambassador to South Africa, Mr.
Timothey Othieno, from the Institute of Global Dialogue and Mr. Ali Salem
Tamek, Member of the Collective of the Saharawi human rights defenders and
ex-political prisoner.
The South
African Committee for Human Rights exposed, on the margin of the seminar,
pictures of the Saharawi victims of the Moroccan repression showing people
injured Saharawis savagely tortured, burned alive or assassinated. (SPS)
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