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Berlin, 31/01/2007 (SPS) The Dutch Democrat Party (SPD) and
the Association of Threatened peoples (Geselschaft fuer bedrohte
Volker) called on the Moroccan government to respect the human
rights in the Western Sahara and asked for a prompt resolution of
the conflict, so as to avoid a new war, the Saharawi representation
in Germany indicated.
"The situation of the Saharawi population is source of concern. They
still suffer from massive human rights violations and a political
solution of the conflict that languishes for decades is repeatedly
postponed", the two parties said.
"All efforts of mediation undertaken by the UN and all the good
offices political missions have so far failed", the President of the
working group of external policy in the SPD, Niels Annen, also
member of the Bundestag, declared in a pres release.
"The conditions of life of the Saharawi people must be ameliorated,
otherwise war risks resuming anew between Morocco and Saharawis. The
European Union has no interest in a military conflict on its
borders", he said.
"So, to avoid war the Saharawi people should be granted social and
political perspectives", he estimated.
ON its side the human rights and humanitarian aid’s Commission and
the Commission of Cooperation and aid for development in the
Bundestag decided to include the Saharawi question in the agenda of
its next meeting, it was indicated.
On another hand, the humanitarian association, the Association of
Threatened peoples, published last January the 21, a report on the
human rights violations in the occupied zones of the Western Sahara
(http://www.gfbv.de/report.php?id=22).
This document, of 23 pages, gives a detailed report (with names,
dates, places, arrests, tortures, arbitrary trials) on the human
rights violations committed by the Moroccan forces of repression in
the occupied territories of the Western Sahara during the year 2006
in addition to the abusive arrests that touched some 600 persons.
It called on Morocco "to immediately and unconditionally release the
Saharawi political prisoners and put an end to the crimes it commits
against the citizens who peacefully expressed their rejection of the
Moroccan occupation of their territory".
The Dutch organisation also asked for the enlargement of the
prerogatives of the MINURSO to include the protection of the
Saharawi citizens and guarantee their legitimate right to peaceful
demonstrations and freedom of expression.
(SPS)
010/090/110/TRD 311448 JAN 07 SPS
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