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Boujdour (occupied territories), 08/03/2006 (SPS) The Moroccan colonial authorities in the occupied city of Boujdour interpellated 8 Saharawi families on Tuesday, been the relatives to some Saharawi students who organised last Monday demonstrations to advocate the immediate withdrawal of the Moroccan occupation and to enable the Saharawi people exercise their right to self-determination, concordant sources indicated.

This interpellation comes within the framework of the policy of intimidation and harassment adopted by the Moroccan authorities against the Saharawi citizens in the occupied territories of Western Sahara and south of Morocco.

It should be recalled that the Saharawi students, had organised on Monday a demonstration that was harshly dispersed by the Moroccan forces of occupation, who arrested the young Saharawi girl, Khaya Safia. The young student was savagely tortured and interrogated for hours, the same sources indicated.

In the occupied capital of the Western Sahara, El Aaiun, a group of young Saharawis organised a demonstration on Monday evening in the l'Arak Street, chanting slogans in favour of the independence of their colonised country.

The Moroccan colonial forces sealed all the city’s streets leading to the place of the demonstration and deployed all their military and police corps to disperse the demonstrators. (SPS)

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Letter of congratulations from the Head of the State to the President of the Mauritanian Military Council for justice and democracy

Bir Lehlu, 08/03/2006 (SPS) The President of the Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz, addressed a message of congratulations to the President of the Mauritanian Military Council for justice and democracy, Ely Ould Mohamed Vall, on Wednesday, in response to the latter’s message sent to the Saharawi Government ad people on the occasion of the 30^th anniversary of the proclamation of the Saharawi Republic, commemorated last February the 27th in the liberated zone of Tifariti.

"It is with a great joy and an immense satisfaction that I received your respectable message addressed on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic, strongly hailing the content of the letter addressed to our people on the occasion of their memorable anniversary", the Head of the State said.

Mr. Abdelaziz also noted "this strong Mauritanian participation to the festivities commemorating the 30th anniversary of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic, "in the liberated Saharawi territories", under the presidency of the Mauritanian Ambassador to Algeria, Mohamed Lamine Ould Mohamed Vall, as a representative of the Mauritanian Government besides the different delegations of other Governments and countries".

He also underlined "the historical, social and cultural ties that unifies the two brother peoples, Saharawi and Mauritanian", who "must constitute a pedestal for union, friendship and good neighbourhood", he said.

"Parting from this, the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic is following with great pleasure the stages Mauritanian is crossing under the presidency of your Excellency, heading towards the construction of the new Mauritania at the political, social and economical levels"; he further stressed.

Mr. Abdelaziz finally expressed his "permanent will to consolidate the linlks of friendship and brotherhood between the two peoples as well as to continue the contact of consultation with the President of the Mauritanian Military Council for justice and democracy, Ely Ould Mohamed Vall". (SPS)

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Madrid, 08/03/2006 (SPS) the wife of the Saharawi human rights activist, Ali Salem Tamek, Mrs. Aichatou Chafii, started a 24 hours hunger strike parting from Wednesday March the 8th, on the occasion of the international day of the Woman, in protest and denunciation of the human rights violations committed by the Moroccan colonial authorities in the Western Sahara.

In a letter she publicised on the occasion, Mrs. Tamek, who was raped y Moroccan agents before she fled the occupied region, underlined that she "can not imagine the serious impact this crime has on my physical and psychic state as well as the negative impact within my family, especially on my young daughter in the future when she will understand what happened. I was forced to choose exile in Spain in company of my young daughter to flee the repression and vendetta".

Moroccan agents of the DST "tried to blackmail me and to intimidate me and threatened me of inventing a scenario of prostitution to imprison me if I refuse to collaborate with them against my husband and his friends".

"They undressed me and raped me all of them and urinated on me... They did other deeds that I feel ashamed to mention... All kind of degrading treatments. They humiliated me , insulted me and did all they can to break my moral".

"They tried to drag me to their dirty games against the comrades of my husband, they wanted me to pretend to have had indecent contacts with Mohamed EL MOUTAOIKIL and Lhoucine Lidri, who are now incarcerate in the Black jail of El Aaiun (political prisoners). This was a machination aimed to trap the two men and arrest them at that time for prostitution", and also destroy their elations with Tamek, she affirmed.

"The Moroccan authorities arrested my husband anew, upon his return from Europe. He is still suffering from the consequences of unknown injections", she said, knowing that the Moroccan authorities have tried to put the political prisoner, Tamek, in a psychiatric clinic in the Moroccan city of Inzegane in an act of vendetta.

The wife of the Saharawi human rights activist added that this "testimony does not have an antecedent", while there are many other Saharawi women who talked about crimes of rape that remain secret because of fear and because of the sensitivity of such a crime.

Mrs. Aichatou, finally asked all democrats and activists to support her so as to defeat impunity and succeed in bringing all the criminals who raped her before justice. (SPS)

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Rabat, 08/03/2006 (SPS) The solution to the conflict of the Western Sahara can only be found "within the framework of a self-determination referendum", affirmed a Moroccan political party on Wednesday in Rabat, stressing that this issue of decolonisation must find a "democratic solution conforming to the international legality".

In a letter addressed to th Moroccan royal Palace to explain its rejection to participate to a meeting on Saturday on the Saharawi question, to which the Heads of the Moroccan parties were invited, the Ennahdj Eddimocrati Party (the Democratic Path) estimated that the resolution of this dossier resides in "the return to the international legality".

"The National Congress (of the party) reaffirm the need to find a solution to the conflict of the Western Sahara within the framework of the international legality, based on the holding of a self-determination referendum", the letter of the S.G of the Party, Mr. Abdallah Harrif, underlined.

The Party also explained the reason behind its rejection to participate to "such meetings (about the Western Sahara) parting from the fact that they are only organised to legitimise and support the Moroccan official position". (SPS)

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