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Bir Lehlu (liberated territories), 22/02/2006 (SPS) The President of
the Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz, asked the United Nations "to
intervene for the protection of the Saharawi citizens so as to
enable the people of the Western Sahara to enjoy their inalienable
right to self-determination and independence and for the immediate
release of the Saharawi political prisoners in hunger strike for
more than three weeks and whose state of health is really
deteriorating because of the persistence of the Moroccan authorities
in the rejections of the prisoners legitimate claims".
In a letter he addressed to the UN Secretary general, Ban Ki-moon,
the Head of the Saharawi State denounced "the savage intervention
perpetrated last Friday by the Moroccan forces of repression against
the Saharawi demonstrators who were peacefully asking for the
Saharawi people’s right to self-determination, the release of the
Saharawi political prisoners and the respect of the human rights in
the occupied territories of the Western Sahara".
He also exhorted the UN Secretary General "to intervene near Morocco
to compel it draw the light on the fate of more than 500 Saharawi
civilians reported mission and 151 Saharawi prisoners of war still
in its hands in addition to the end of the human rights violations
committed in the occupied territories of the Western Sahara".
The President of the republic also called for the enlarging of he
mandate of the UN Mission to include the protection of the human
rights of the Saharawi civilians, as well as the lifting of the
Medias and military siege imposed on the Western Sahara since its
occupation by Morocco in 1975.
Mr. Abdelaziz had already sent a letter to the new UN Secretary
general, Ban Ki-moon, in the beginning of February, 2007, asking him
to implement the recommendations of the UN High Commissioner for
Human Rights report, published in 2006, in which the organisation
considered that the exercise by the Saharawi people of their
legitimate right to self-determination is the solution to all the
human rights problems in the territory. (SPS)
020/090/100/TRD 221350 FEV 07 SPS
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