SPS SADR/NGO Constitution of the Union of
Saharawi Journalists and Writers
01.01.05
Chahid El Hafed, 01/01/2005 (SPS) the Union of Saharawi Journalists and
Writers (USJW) is the name chosen by tens of Saharawi journalists and
writers, Saturday in Chahid El Hafed, for this "non-governmental
organisation" they created in order to "participate as effectively as
possible in the national struggle for the independence of Western
Sahara".
The announcement of the creation of the Union in was carried out in
Chahid El Hafed after the holding of the General Assembly of the Union,
which adopted the legal documents of the organisation.
The General Assembly also elected Mr. Malainin Lakhal, Secretary
General of the Union, helped by an elected executive bureau composed of
4 members living in the refugees’ camps, successively Mrs. M'Barka El
Mehdi, Mr. Saleh Navaa, Mr. Hamdi Mahjoub, Mr. Salek Muftah and 2
members from occupied territories of Western Sahara, whose names were
not revealed.
"The Union launches an appeal to the most active sectors of the
Saharawi society, to all democrats and all human rights organisations
to pressure Morocco so as to put an end to its systematic repression of
the Saharawi population under occupation, to end the military and media
siege imposed on occupied territories of Western Sahara and to
dismantle the Moroccan military wall of shame, which constitutes a real
crime against humanity", underlined the final communiqué of the
Assembly.
The USJW denounced "the intransigence and irresponsibility of the
Moroccan Government" and its denial of its "engagements agreed upon
with the international community aimed at achieving the decolonisation
of Western Sahara", calling the competent international bodies "to
compel Morocco end its illegal occupation of Western Sahara and to
allow Saharawi people to freely decide over their destiny, conforming
to the Security Council's resolutions 1495 and 1570", added the
communiqué.
The Saharawi journalists had, in addition, paid a special tribute "to
the Algerian journalists and writers, who had never failed their
responsibilities of informing the national and international public
opinion about the truth on Saharawi people's struggle for independence
since the beginnings", breaking thus "the medias siege imposed, by the
Moroccan colonialism and its agents around the world, on the struggle
of the this people and its legitimate and fundamental rights".
The text also "saluted the position expressed by some honest pens of
the Moroccan press, who bravely supported Saharawi people's legitimate
right to self-determination, breaking the taboos and the lies of the
Moroccan Makhzenian system" about the so-called Moroccan consensus on
the Saharawi question, concluded the communiqué. (SPS)
SAHARA
PRESS SERVICE