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London,
08/11/2007 (SPS) The participants to a conference on Western
Sahara organised on Wednesday evening at the seat of the British
House of Commons under the theme "Time for action", asked for
the immediate publication of the report of the UN High
Commissioner for Human Rights, elaborated last year and kept
secrete by the UN under pressures of some big powers.
During the meeting chaired by Labour deputy, Jeremy Kurbin, the
Saharawi human rights activist and ex-political prisoner, Mrs.
Aminetou Haidar indicated that the "Moroccan colonial regime did
not stop committing crimes against humanity against the peaceful
Saharawi people since the first day of the invasion ".
During this public conference, Mrs. Haidar underlined in a
presentation to the audience that "since the Moroccan occupation
of Western Sahara in 1975, the Saharawi citizens underwent
massive assassinations, torture, campaigns of abduction and
individual and collective arrests in addition to forced
disappearances.
Entire families were exterminated, dozens Saharawi citizens
buried alive by the Moroccan forces, innocents were thrown fro
Moroccan helicopters while hundreds other are still reported
missing".
The Saharawi militant has also presented a detailed report on
the oppression that is striking the Saharawis, especially the
Saharawi human rights activists, students and all those who
openly express their rejection of the Moroccan occupation of
Western Sahara.
She affirmed that "it is the duty of the British government to
help in the protection of human rights in Western Sahara".
The UN Commissioner for Human Rights elaborated a report on the
human rights situation in Western Sahara, she stated, stressing
that this same report was censured by the UN.
"Without the influence of France, the report would not have been
censured and the violations would not have occurred under
silence", she said, adding that "France supports the Moroccan
occupation of Western Sahara, and thus supports the Moroccan
violations of the Saharawi people’s rights". "This is a pitiful
situation that we can not accept", she stressed.
"A democratic country such as Great Britain, permanent member of
the UN Security Council, must not only reject these attitude but
also exercise pressures on the UN and urge it publish this
report and implement the resolutions of the international
legality that enables the Saharawi people exercise its
legitimate right of self-determination", Mrs. Haidar.
''The role of the UN’s mission in Western Sahara is not
positive, this UN corps can neither accomplish its main mission,
which is the organisation of a referendum on self-determination,
nor protect the Saharawis who are oppressed and stop these human
rights violations", the Saharawi militant added.
(SPS)
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