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Mallorca, 03/03/2004
(SPS) Commemorating parties of the proclamation of the SADR were organised
in the 27th and 28th February, in the University of Palma and in Mallorca,
by the committee of solidarity with Saharawi People in Balears islands, with
the participation of local politicians, members of solidarity committees,
intellectuals, and an important audience, indicated a source close to Saharawi
representative in Mallorca.
The minister, delegated to Europe, member of Polisario Front's National
Secretariat, Mohamed Sidati, recounted, during his activities, the development
of Saharawi people struggle and the context in which SADR was proclaimed,
describing the invasion of the territory as ''a conspiracy hatched against
Saharawi people and against its rights to freedom and independence'', considering
that it was ''an operation of international robbery, without antecedent
in history''.
''Morocco, motivated by its expansionist ambitions and encouraged by France
invaded Western Sahara's territory, where it perpetrated its violation causing
terror and repression'' (...) ''Spain, as a colonial power, had abdicated
its responsibilities, abandoning Saharawi people to a fatal fate'', he added.
All UN's efforts to reach a fair and final solution based on self-determination
''are opposed by Morocco, the latter defies, by its arrogant intransigence,
the international community's will'', according to the minister.
''Saharawis' patience can not be unlimited, if Un is not decided to achieve
the decolonisation process in Western Sahara, we will deduce the consequences,
intensifying our legitimate struggle to fulfil Saharawi peoples' claims
to freedom and independence'', he warned.
Mohamed Sidati's intervention was followed by a debate to which Ali Lemrabet,
Moroccan journalist recently released from Moroccan prisons, took part speaking
of the absence of freedom in Morocco.
''The actual situation is alike to the former... I do not think that there
was a change at any moment. And now there are reports of Amnesty International,
UN , International Federation of Human Rights underlining that the practice
of torture are still existing in Morocco, and that human rights are not
respected ; freedom of expression persecuted...there is way to regression.
I am talking about regression
while there has never been a progress... '', he stressed. (SPS)
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Chahid El Hafed (refugees'
Camps), 03/03/2004 (SPS) The President of the Republic, Mohamed abdelaziz,
inaugurated on Wednesday in the school of the 27th of February, a painting
exposition by the painter, Fadili Yeslem, in which the latter denounces
the pains generated by Moroccan military wall,
which is parting Saharawi
people and their land after the Moroccan armed forces invasion of the territory
in 1975.
Entitled ''Wall of Disgrace'',
the exposition deals with the terrible consequences of this military wall,
erected over 2000 Km by Moroccan forces of occupation, and the destructive
effects, ruins and annihilation it generated to Saharawi people.
The artist, who enormously variegated his palette, switch between the realistic
and the symbolical to express the hope of a whole people: to see this wall
dismantled like Berlin's wall.
''I was inspired in painting
these paintings from the general state of mind of Saharawi people from both
sides of the wall parting us. Thus, they are a symbolical participation to
the international campaign towards the dismantling of this wall of disgrace
still erected as a challenge to humanity in this third millennium'', declared
Mr. Fadili to SPS.
The President of the Republic hailed the talents of this young artist,
graduated from Cuban school of arts, stressing on the necessity of encouraging
cultural, sportive and entertainments' activities. (SPS)
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