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Oslo, 11/03/2007, (SPS) The Saharawi human rights activist
and ex-political prisoners, Mrs. Aminatou Haidar, is undertaking
since last Monday a visit to Norway to raise awareness on the
Moroccan human rights violations in the occupied territories of the
Western Sahara, the Saharawi representation in the Nordic countries
indicated.
Mrs. Haidar, which met with many representatives of the Norwegian
civil society, animated a conference on the situation in the
occupied territories of the Western Sahara, relating the history of
the Moroccan violations of the human rights against the Saharawi
citizens since the military invasion of the Non-self-governing
territory by Morocco in 1975.
In this respect, the Saharawi human rights activist was invited at
the seat of the Norwegian Foundation "Human Rights House", in Oslo,
where she animated a conference on the current situation in the
occupied territories. She underlined the need to put pressures on
Rabat to put an end to its systematic violations of human rights
against the Saharawi civilians.
The representative of Amnesty International, Ann Christin Johnsg,
which intervened in this conference to affirm the testimony of Mrs.
Aminatou, recalled the reports of its organisation on the situation
in the ground condemning the Moroccan systematic human rights
violations of the Saharawi people. She further recalled the cases of
expulsion from the territory of journalists, delegations and
observers.
In Bergen, the Saharawi activist also participated to a big march
celebrating the international Day of the woman, before she animated
a conference at the seat of the RAFTO Foundation, where she recalled
the decisive role played by the Saharawi women in the struggle for
the independence of the Western Sahara.
Although she "is deprived by the Moroccan occupation from enjoying
the fundamental rights, especially the right to self-determination
and freedom of expression, and her rights to the physical and moral
security", the Saharawi women has always been a pillar of the
Saharawi resistance in the occupied territories, in the refugee
camps and in the liberated territories of the Western Sahara, Mrs.
Haidar underlined.
The ex-political prisoner also animated a conference in the
University in Oslo, which was attended by a big number of students,
professors and searchers, who debated with Mr. Haidar of the last
developments of the Saharawi question as well as the human rights
situation in the occupied cities of the Western Sahara and in the
south of morocco.
During all the stages of her visit, Mrs. Aminatou Haidar has always
recalled to the audience the situation of the Saharawi political
prisoners, who are still suffering from the cruelty they are
subjected to by their Moroccan torturers in the different prisons of
the Moroccan colonial regime.
"The Saharawi civilians are suffering during the first years of
occupation: torture, massive massacres, entire families were buried
alive by the Moroccan army, others were thrown from helicopters,
while thousands were forced to exile, or victims to arbitrary
arrests or disappearance…etc", Mrs. Aminatou Haidar underlined.
(SPS)
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