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SADR/AFRICA PARLIAMENT/HUMAN RIGHTS

Serious human rights violations in the Western Sahara denounced before of the African Parliament

11.04.05

 

 

 

 

 

Mid Rand (South Africa), 11/04/2006 (SPS) The Saharawi member of the African Parliament, Brahim Salem Zrug, denounced the serious human rights violations, to which the Saharawi populations are subjected by the Moroccan forces of occupation in the occupied territories of the Western Sahara.

 

The Saharawi Parliamentarian underlined, before the African Parliament’s Committee for Justice and Human Rights, “the continuous campaigns of torture and detention” exercised by Morocco against the helpless Saharawi civilians". He estimated that this attitude is "a flagrant violation against the Universal Convention for Human Rights as well as the Saharawi people’s right to self-determination, the Moroccan Government is denying".

 

Mr. Zrug also denounced the Moroccan authorities’ persistence in denying entry to the territory to international press and organisations. (SPS)

 

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OCCUPIE TERRITORIES/REPRESION

Two Saharawi citizens detained and their houses ransacked in the occupied city of Smara

 

 

 

Smara (occupied territories of Western Sahara), 11/04/2006 (SPS) Two Saharawi citizens were detained and their houses ransacked by the Moroccan forces of occupation, on Sunday in the occupied city of Smara. Police was blaming them for distributing tracts and flags of the Saharawi Republic, reported SPS’s correspondent on the ground.

Hamada Uld Dadi and Ahamed ElMusawi, were arrested then led to a police station alter they were thoroughly controlled and their houses ransacked by the Moroccan agents, the same source said.

On another hand, the house of the Saharawi citizen, Dumaha Mint Bachir, was broken into y the Moroccan police, who destroyed his properties pretending to be in search of his brother, Mahmud Uld Bachir.

On Sunday evening, the Saharawi citizens in the occupied city of Boujdour organised a demonstration. Raising the flags of the Saharawi Republic in the neighbourhoods of "ENSR", "El Idari" and in the "Elbaladía" street in the same city.
(SPS)

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SPS
SADR/ANGOLA

The Envoy of the Saharawi President hands over a letter to Angolan President Dos Santos

 

 

 

Luanda, 11/04/2006 (SPS) Mr. Mohamed Sidati, Minister Councilor at the presidency delegated to Europe, was received on Tuesday by the Angolan Parliament speaker, Roberto de Almeida, to whom he handed over a letter from the President of the Saharawi Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz, to his Angolan counterpart, Eduardo Dos Santos.

"The message tackles the last developments of the Saharawi people's struggle to concretise their inalienable right to self-determination and indepndence. It also denounces the Moroccan maneuvers aimed to hinder this right", Mr. Sidati indicated in a written statment.

The Saharawi Minister further informed his Angolan interlocutor that the UN, which is present in the territory since 1991, "has so far failed to enforce United Nations resolutions on the matter".

"If the situation remains  unchanged, this may lead to the deterioration of the situation and generate insecurity and destabilisation in the region, he warned. (SPS)

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