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Bir Anzarane (occupied territories),
10/12/2006 (SPS) The family of Mohamed Lamine Oussiboua, a family
composed of five members, was victim to the explosion of an
antipersonnel landmine, last Monday, in Bir Anzarane region in the
southern part of the Western Sahara, while they were driving in a
Land Rover, indicated the Saharawi Association of the Victims of the
Flagrant Human Rights Violations Committed by the Moroccan State (ASVDH)
in a press release.
The explosion caused the immediate death of two persons, the son of
the aforementioned family, Salk Mohamed Lamine OUSSIBOUA, born in
1986, and another passenger still not identified who was
accompanying the family, the press release stressed.
The father of the family, Mohamed Lamine Oussiboua, his wife,
Ghallouha Daoudi and their daughter, Chaia Mohamed Lamine Oussiboua,
were seriously injured and transported to a hospital, while their
second son, Said Mohamed Lamine, lost some of his fingers in the
explosion.
The ASVDH affirmed that the "Moroccan State is the only accountable
of this kind of crimes that are continuously occurring", recalling
that the Saharawi citizens are regularly victims to mines accidents,
knowing that millions mines are used by the Moroccan army,
especially around the Moroccan military wall that is sealing the
occupied zones of the Western Sahara.
Polisario Front destroyed last February a first part of his stocks
of antipersonnel landmines, calling the international community to
exercise pressures on Morocco to compel it destroys its landmines,
which "do not differentiate between children from soldiers".
The Saharawi initiative, it should be recalled comes in response to
the Geneva Call, launched in 2000 by the members of the
International Campaign Against Antipersonnel Landmines, knowing that
this cal engages the non-state actors in the struggle against the
use, production or selling of landmines, while the Ottawa Convention
is dedicated to the States.
Rabat, which is not a signatory of the Ottawa Convention of 1997,
has installed millions landmines in the occupied region of the
Western Sahara around the military wall that parts the
Non-Self-Governing territory in two.
(SPS)
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