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Berlin,
15/02/2007 (SPS) The Parliamentarian group of the Green party (die
Gruenen) in the German Bundestag (Parliament) called on the German
Federal Government to make use of its influence within the framework
of the German presidency o the European Union’s Council, to initiate
a European common policy aiming at "a real and prompt amelioration
of the human rights situation in the Western Sahara and the opening
of the way to the organisation of a free referendum" for the people
of the Non-Self-Governing territory.
In a press release, recently published, the German political party
noted that since the Moroccan rejection of the Baker Plan, "the
demonstrations and protests of the Saharawi population in the
occupied zones of the Western Sahara are increasing".
"These demonstrations are the prolongation of the peaceful national
resistance started by the Saharawis against the occupation of the
Western Sahara and the Moroccan refusal to implement the UN Security
Council’s resolutions, which demand for more than 30 years, the
organisation of a referendum", the text writes.
"The Moroccan State answers this protests with arrests and tortures.
The NGO "Association of Threatened Peoples" reported 685 victims by
their names, among whom there are many children and students in the
year 2006 alone.
The number of the victims is even higher, stressed the press
release, which is signed by Mr. Christian Stroebele vice-president
of the parliamentarian group, Mr. Volker Beck the spokesperson in
the Parliament’s human rights Commission and Mrs. Ute Koczy the
spokesperson of the Parliamentarian group in the Commission of
cooperation.
Giving an example with the experience of Mr. Ali Salem Tamek, the
Saharawi human rights activist who has recently visited he
Bundestag, the text reported the Saharawi activist’s testimony in
which he affirmed having been "arrested and savagely ill-treated",
in 2005, after a turn he undertook to raise awareness in some
European countries.
"His wife was raped by five members of the Moroccan forces of
security and he was victim to an attempt to be imprisoned for life
in a psychiatric centre which was only stopped thanks to a hunger
strike and an international campaign lead by some NGOs including
Amnesty International", the same text underlined.
The Green finally regretted that "France has hindered so far the
condemnation and necessary sanctions by the UN of the Moroccan acts"
and called on the German Federal Government to "put pressures on
Paris". (SPS)
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