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(Special Envoy)
Nairobi, 22/01/2007 (SPS) Representatives of the Saharawi
civil society cornered the Moroccan State on the systematic human
rights violations in the occupied territories of the Western Sahara,
on Monday morning, in a workshop organised by the Saharawi
delegation participating to the 7th World Social Forum in
Nairobi, Kenya.
The workshop, which was organised under the title "SOS, human rights
violations in the occupied Western Sahara", exposed to about one
hundred activists from many nationalities, the history of the
Moroccan systematic violations of the fundamental, political,
social, economical rights of the Saharawi people in the occupied
territories of the Western Sahara.
The workshop was opened by Mr. Fernando Peraita, member of the
European Coordination of solidarity with the Saharawi people (Task
Force), who fully exposed the political and historical background of
the question of the Moroccan colonisation of the Western Sahara.
He gave the word to the President of the Families of the Saharawi
Disappeareds and Prisoners (AFAPREDESA), Abdeslam Omar, who
methodically exposed the principle stages of the human rights
violations, underlining especially the questions of forced
disappearance, tortures and other ill-treatment.
On her side, Mrs. Maima Mahmud, member of the Saharawi Woman
National Union focussed hr intervention on the moving testimony she
received from the Saharawi human rights activist and ex-political
prisoner, Mrs. Aminatou Haidar, who became an example of the
resistance and rejection of the Moroccan colonial presence in the
Western Sahara.
A
group of persons in the sold of the Moroccan colonial regime
accompanied by a group of renegades, from Saharawi origins, tried in
vain to se the confusion and started shouting and intervening,
insulting the moderato rand other participants to the workshops, who
expressed their condemnation to this attitude that contradicts all
the principles of democracy.
The 2nd day of the 7th WSF, which is held from the 20 to
the 25 of January in Nairobi, was marked by an energetic
condemnation of the Moroccan flagrant human rights violations in the
occupied territories of the Western Sahara, in many workshops and by
visitors of the Saharawi stand where photos of victims of tortures
are exposed.
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". (SPS)
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