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SPS Famous writer from Uruguay denounces the deprivation of the Saharawi people of their homeland 10.04.05
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El Aaiun (refugee camps), 10/04/2006 (SPS) The Uruguayan writer and journalist, Eduardo Galeano, denounced, on Sunday, the deprivation of the Saharawi people from their "homeland and rights'', for the last 30 years. He qualified as "revolting" the fact that Europe, and especially Spain, has not recognised the Saharawi Republic yet.
In a statement he gave in the closing ceremony of the 3rd edition of the International Festival of the Cinema of the Sahara (FISAHARA), organised in the Saharawi refugee camp of El Aaiun since last Friday, Galeano, quoted by Spanish Press Agency, EFE, recalled that more than 80 States around the world "have given proof good sense" and are recognising the Saharawi Republic.
He estimated that Spain assumes a "particular responsibility" in the Saharawi conflict, stressing that it has ''opened the door to the Moroccan invasion, by abandoning its then colony, in 1975''.
On another hand, Galeano denounced the Moroccan military wall that is dividing the Western Sahara in two parties and which goal is to ''perpetuate the occupation''.
''The wall of Morocco, which has as a goal to perpetuate the occupation, is 60 times longer than the wall of Berlin, but does not have a 60 times more impact'', he deplored.
Eduardo Galeano is famous for his engagement against social injustice, author of many books, some of which are translated to more than 20 languages.
In 1999, he won the Lannan Fondation’s Cultural Freedom Price, in the USA.
On her part, the Spanish writer, Eugenia Rico, read a manifest in which the representatives of the world of culture, who participated to the Festival of the Cinema, ask the international community to ''implement the UN’s resolutions in favour of the Saharawi people’s right to self-determination".
The manifest also asked the Spanish Government to open a Cervantes Institute in the Saharawi refugee camps and to maintain the aid and cooperation with the institutions of the Saharawi people. (SPS)
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SPS President Abdelaziz asks the UN to support the Saharawi people’s right to self-determination
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El Aaiun (refugee camps), 10/04/2006 (SPS) The President of the Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz, asked the UN, on Sunday, to intervene for the defence of the Saharawi people’s right to self-determination.
Intervening during pres conference he held in the Saharawi refugee camp of "El Aaiun" on the occasion of the closing ceremony of the 3rd edition of the International Festival of the Cinema of the Sahara, President Abdelaziz recalled that for the last 15 years the Saharawi people did not stop claiming for the organisation of a free and honest self-determination referendum.
He wondered about the efficiency of the UN’s Mission in the Western Sahara, Minurso, which is present for the organisation of a referendum while nothing happens.
The Head of the State vividly denounced the "repression practiced by the Moroccan regime against the Saharawi populations" in the occupied cities of the Saharawi Republic. He also deplored the Moroccan "refusal" to allow jurists and representatives of the UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights to visit the occupied territories of the Western Sahara to investigate on the situation.
On another hand, he expressed his satisfaction with the new form of peaceful resistance adopted by the Saharawi populations in the occupied territories.
Mr. Mohamed Abdelaziz also called on the international community to exercise pressures on the Moroccan regime to compel it stop the campaigns of repression, imprisonment and assassination, as in the cases of the Saharawi activists Lembarki and LeKhlifi, killed under torture by the Moroccan authorities.
He further considered the recent visit undertaken by the Moroccan king to the occupied territories of the Western Sahara as "a direct participation from the king to this campaign of terror and repression" led against the peaceful and helpless Saharawi civilians. (SPS)
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SPS Six persons at least arrested in the occupied city of Smara
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Smara (occupied territories), 10/04/2006 (SPS) Six Saharawi citizens, at least, were arrested by the Moroccan colonial forces, after a wide operation of distribution of tracts and installation of Saharawi Republic’s flags in the main streets of the cultural capital of the Saharawi Republic, Smara, reported SPS’s correspondent on the ground.
During this operation, which took place on Saturday evening to Sunday early morning, young Saharawi citizens raised the flags of the Saharawi Republic chanting slogans advocating the immediate withdrawal of the Moroccan occupation from the Western Sahara, the same source indicated.
The Moroccan forces of occupation "blindly proceeded to the arrest of six Saharawi young persons", mainly Jaafar Aziz, Hayani Chrif, Taleb Mahjoub, Chikhi Saaid, Beybat Rgueibi and Moussaoui Ahmed.
The victims "were led to a police station of the occupied city of Smara, tortured for some hours before been abandoned late at night in a street by the Moroccan forces of repression, except for Moussaoui Ahmed, who is still detained", the same source reported.
On another hand, in the occupied city of el Aaiun, many flags of the Saharawi Republic were installed in three main streets of the city, it was indicated. (SPS)
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SPS Foreign film-makers are ready to contribute to the creation of a school of cinema in the Saharawi camps
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El Aaiun
(refugee camps), 10/04/2006 (SPS) Some foreign film-makers, who participated
to the activities of the 3rd edition of the International Festival of the Cinema
of the Sahara, organised in the El Aaiun camp from the 4th to the 9th of April,
expressed their willingness to positively answer the Saharawi authorities’
request of building a school for the cinema, which will help the Saharawi people
to get an additional mean of spreading their cause world wide.
Many participants to this cinematographic event expressed concern in this
project, proposed by the Saharawi Ministry for Culture, during the opening
ceremony of the Festival.
Te project
aims at creating a school to train technicians and specialist that would be able
to make films, so as to be able to inform the international community about the
Saharawi people’s claims, and aspirations to independence.
The foreign film-makers declared their positive answer during the closing
ceremony of he Festival, to which the President of the republic, Mohamed
Abdelaziz, was present, in addition to many members of the Saharawi Government
and all the participants to the event.
320 persons participated to the Festival of the Cinema of the Sahara, coming
from 14 countries. 35 films were projected, including 7 Algerian productions
consecrated to the Algerian national Liberation struggle, films from Cuba and
India.
The Price of the festival was granted to the film, "the story of the crying
camel", by produced by Tobias N. Siebert, while the second price was dedicated
to the Cuban film "Fraise et chocolat". (SPS)
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