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SPS Polisario asks for a Medias coverage of the UN High Commissioner for human rights mission to the Western Sahara 10.05.05
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London,
10/05/2006 (SPS) Polisario Front’s Representation to the United Kingdom and
Ireland called on the organisations of support to the Saharawi people to raise
awareness of the Medias for the necessity of covering the first mission of the
UN High Commissioner for human rights mission to the Western Sahara occupied
territories as well as in the liberated zones.
In a letter reported by the Algerian Press Agency, APS, Polisario Representation
in London called on the parties in charge of the "Western Sahara Campaign" to
help the UN High Commissioner ad-hoc Committee to unveil the Moroccan repression
in the Western Sahara against the Saharawi people’s children.
The delegation of the High Commissioner, which will be replace next June by the
Council for Human Rights, is in charge of a mission of investigation, the first
of its kind since 30 years, as a result to the request of the President of the
Saharawi State, Mohamed Abdelaziz, in a report submitted last April to the Un
Secretary General, Kofi Annan.
The mission of the High Commissioner, planed for this May the 16th to the 29th,
will work until the 21st of May in the occupied territories, to coincide with
the first anniversary of the Saharawi popular uprising in El Aaiun and in the
other occupied Saharawi cities advocating the right to self-determination and
independence of the Western Sahara.
The second of the Polisario Front’s Representation in London, Limam Mohamed
affirmed that the question is "whether the Moroccan authorities of occupation
will collaborate in transparency or not".
"Will they let the UN mission to lead its mission and authorise journalists and
international observers to have free access to the occupied territories, or will
they make use of their usual methods closing these regions and deploying
settlers, the agents of the Moroccan police and army", he wondered.
He further wondered if the Moroccan authorities would make use, anew, of
repression against the Saharawi citizens to prevent them from expressing their
attachment to their country and to Polisario Front, as it was the case during
the Intifada (its first anniversary will be celebrated in May the 21st), in the
different occupied Saharawi cities. (SPS)
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SPS Arrival of the President of the Republic to Kampala for the investiture of Museveni
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Kampala, 10/05/2006 (SPS) The President of the Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz, arrived this Wednesday to Kampala to attend the ceremony of investiture of the President of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni, who won his country presidential election for the third time, reported an official source.
The Head of the State was received at the airport "Entebbe" of Kampala by the Ugandan vice-president, Gilbert Bukeya, accompanied with members of the Government, it was indicated.
Mr. Abdelaziz is accompanied by Mr. Mohamed Yeslem Beissat and Mr. Hamdi Beiha, respectively Saharawi Ambassador to Algeria and Saharawi Ambassador to Kenya, as well as Mr. Abdati Breika, Councillor to the President, the same source indicated.
The ceremony of investiture of the Ugandan President, Yoweri Museveni, will take place this May the 12th with the presence of many Heads of States and Governments; it was announced at the Ugandan capital. (SPS)
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SPS One person arrested and demonstrations in different schools in the occupied El Aaiun
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El Aaiun (occupied territories), 10/05/2006 (SPS) A Saharawi student was arrested on Tuesday by the Moroccan forces of occupation during demonstrations, organised by Saharawi students on the occasion of the anniversary of the creation of Polisario Front in 1973, in many schools in the occupied city of El Aaiun, reported SPS’s correspondent on the ground.
More than 4000 tracts were distributed by the Saharawi students in the different schools of El Aaiun, advocating the immediate withdrawal of the Moroccan occupation of the Western Sahara, the same source indicated.
The demonstrators also raised the flags of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic and chanted slogan in favour of the Saharawi people’s right to self-determination. The Moroccan police immediately intervened making excessive use of violence against the Saharawi students.
ON another hand, the occupied city of Dakhla was lately the theatre of a big deployment of Moroccan forces and of mobile patrols, which seized the main streets of the city, the same source indicated. (SPS)
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SPS More than 34 Saharawi students wounded and two others arrested in the University campus Souissi I and Suissi II in Rabat
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Rabat, 10/05/2006 (SPS) More than 34 Saharawi students were wounded ,last Monday night to Tuesday early morning, including one seriously, during an intervention of the Moroccan police in the university campus Souissi I and II, reported students sources in the Moroccan capital.
Bachir Mayara, who was thrown by the police agents from the 4th floor of the Building "B" in the Souissi II campus, remains in the emergencies of the hospital El Irfane in Rabat. He suffers from fractures in his head, arms, and other parts of his body and is vomiting blood, according to his friends who fears hem ay have been injured in he livers.
Concerning the arrested students, Ali Chay and Abdallahi Al Ansari, they ere led in a police car towards an unknown destination and are certainly "submitted to tortures and interrogatories", according to their compatriots, who said the list of the victims of this intervention is not yet "definitive".
The Saharawi girls in the campus were also victims to the attack, it was indicated. The same sources said the girls were "threatened of rape" by police agents, who "ransacked their rooms, destroyed their televisions, cell phones and stole their money".
In a press release publicised on Wednesday, the students estimated that this "barbaric intervention" by the Moroccan forces of security aims to "prevent possible demonstrations the Saharawi students could do to commemorate the creation of Polisario (10 May 1973), the start of the armed struggle against the Spanish colonialism (20 May 1973) or the first anniversary of the Intifada of independence (21 May 2005).
On another hand, they reaffirmed their attachment to the "decolonisation of the Western Sahara through a self-determination referendum under the auspices of the UN" and their determination to "continue the peaceful struggle" until the "liberation of their country from the Moroccan colonial yoke". (SPS)
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