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(Special Envoy)
Nairobi, 21/01/2007 (SPS) The second day of the 7th World
Social Forum, held in Nairobi from the 20 to the 25 January, was
marked by an energetic condemnation of the flagrant Moroccan human
rights violations in the occupied territories of the Western Sahara,
in many workshops and by all the visitors of the Saharawi stand, in
which photos of the Saharawi victims of torture and imprisonment are
exhibited.
The members of the Saharawi delegation, who participated to the
workshops of the Forum, which covered today themes like human
rights, democracy, women, youth, childhood, pollution, immigration,
civilisation dialogue, were able to unmask the real face of the
Moroccan colonisation of the Western Sahara.
A
representative of the Moroccan Association for human Rights (AMDH),
Mr. Said Tbal, strongly denounced the Moroccan crimes committed in
the Western Sahara, revealing the existence of hundreds of Saharawi
victims of forced disappearance and other human rights violations
persist to be committed by the Moroccan colonial authorities in the
Western Sahara, he said in his intervention in a workshop, "forced
disappearance, struggle against impunity and the right of the
victims to the truth, justice and reparation".
Organised by "Disparitions forcés, groupe de contact" and "secours
Catholiques/Caritas France", this workshop was also marked with the
intervention of M. Abdeslam Omar, President of the Association of
the Families of the Saharawi Disappeareds and Prisoners (AFAPREDESA),
who explicitly underlined the necessity of putting pressure of
Morocco to sign and respect the Convention Against Forced
Disappearance, and the need to bring the Moroccan accountable
officials and torturers before justice.
"Contrary to the Moroccan propaganda, the Moroccan system did not
change, there are still Saharawi victims to forced disappearance,
arbitrary detention and other human rights violations in the
occupied territories of the Western Sahara", Mr. Abdeslam stressed.
On another hand, the Saharawi stand, which exhibits photos of
Saharawi tortured victims of Moroccan authorities, in addition to
the pictures of the Moroccan wall that divides the Western Sahara
and its people in two, has attracted the attention of the
participants and actors of the world civil society who expressed
their deep solidarity with the legitimate struggle of the Saharawi
people for their independence.
Finally, it should be stressed, Moroccan agents of secret services
and some Saharawi renegades tried, as usual, to spread confusion and
disorder in the workshop. These persons action was widely condemned
by the participants to the second part of the workshop organised in
the afternoon.
(SPS)
060/KENYA/000 212133 Jan 07 SPS
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