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The International Movement of Youth and Students for the United Nations calls to the decolonisation of Western Sahara
02.04.05



Geneva, 02/04/2005 (SPS) The International Movement of Youth and Students for the United Nations called to the decolonisation of the Western Sahara conforming to the doctrine of the international organisation, in front of the 61st session of the UN's Committee for Human Rights in Geneva held from the 14 of March to April the 22nd.

"United Nations, as a guarantor of international law, must impose the respect of their Charter", and consequently "succeed the process of the decolonisation of Western Sahara", estimated the representative of the movement.

He indicated that "as long as the final status of Western Sahara is not fixed through a free and democratic referendum on self-determination for the Saharawi people", it will "remain the responsibility of the UN to take in charge the resources of Western Sahara, the heritage of this people, which is subjected to exploitation and to wild plundering by Morocco".

He recalled that "the international law and the Bodies representing it have never recognised legitimacy or sovereignty of Morocco over Western Sahara". No countries, no "NGO or political party has ever recognised" Moroccan sovereignty on the territory.

Saharawi people, who is suffering occupation and injustice for 30 years, has got the right to live like all the peoples of the world in security and peace, and must thus freely decide on its future, he underlined.(SPS)

020/090/000 021230/TRD April 05 SPS
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OCCUPIED TERRITORIES/REPRESSION
Rafto Price winner calls to the protection of Saharawis in occupied territories



El Aaiun (occupied territories), 02/04/2005 (SPS) 2002 Rafto Price winner, Sidi Mohamed Dedech, called human rights organisations, especially Amnesty International and Norwegian Rafto Foundation, to publicly condemn "the systematic human rights violations perpetrated by Moroccan police in Western Sahara".

In a press release, Mr. Dedech strongly denounced "these violations to which Saharawi citizens are subjected". He gave an example with a mother who was "beaten and ill-treated last March the 29th, and who was injured in her lungs, head and shoulder blade under torture. They did not care for her sickness as she has diabetes and hypertension".

In her fifties, the old lady "is in a serious state", in a hospital in El Aaiun, it was indicated.

The press release, of which SPS received a copy, also mentioned the case of the citizen, Ahmed Salek El Kotob, who was kidnapped in the beginning of the week by the Moroccan police for having tried to investigate on the case of his brother arrested in 1992. (SPS)

020/090/000/TRD 021145 April 05 SPS

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