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SPS Saharawis in the occupied territories and south Morocco celebrate the "Id Al Adha" with demonstrations against the Moroccan occupation 12.01.06
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El Aaiun
(occupied capital of the SADR), 12/01/2005 (SPS) Saharawi citizens in the
different occupied cities of Western Sahara and south Morocco celebrated the
holidays of "Id Al Adha" with demonstrations, started since last Tuesday and
pursued in Wednesday and Thursday, "rejecting the Moroccan occupation of their
territory and asking for the independence of Western Sahara", reported
concordant sources on the ground.
"The Saharawi populations of the occupied cities of El Aaiun, Smara, and south
Morocco, in Tan Tan, got out in sporadic demonstrations, at different hours of
the Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, the day of the official celebration by
Morocco of the Id Al Adha. They rejected the Moroccan occupation of their
territory, asking for the independence of Western Sahara and asking for
protection from the oppression and segregation exercised against them by the
Moroccan colonial regime", the same sources added.
IN this respect, demonstrations broke in El Aaiun and Smara, followed by massive intervention by the Moroccan forces and many confrontations between demonstrators and the colonial authorities. "These interventions resulted in the wounding of many Saharawi demonstrators, mainly Mrs. Ghlana Muly Ahmed, and Mr. Cherfi Hamdi in Smara, while dozens other wounded citizens remain unidentified", one of the sources indicated to SPS.
In the South of Morocco, mainly in Tan Tan, a big demonstration was organised by the Saharawi population in the city "in solidarity with the family of the late young, Lekhlifi Abba Cheij", a young Saharawi killed under torture by a Moroccan officer in Tan Tan, without any reason.
"Moroccan colonial authorities, once again, used excessive force to disperse the Saharawi demonstrators wounding the sister of the late Lekhlifi, Mrs. Lekhifi Maydouna, as well as Mr. Sahel Mohamed, Mr. Kerdelas Ahmed and Mr. El Aatiq Ahmed", it was added.
The flags of
the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic were raised by demonstrators, who chanted
slogans calling for the immediate withdrawal of the Moroccan occupation from
Western Sahara and asking for the Saharawi people’s right to self-determination
and independence. (SPS)
060/090/000 122055 Jan 06 SPS
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SPS On the occasion of the "Id El Adha" the President of the Republic sends his congratulations to the Saharawi political prisoners
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Bir Lehlu (liberated territories), 12/01/2005 (SPS) The President of the Republic, Mr. Mohamed Abdelaziz, addressed a letter of congratulations, Tuesday on the occasion of the celebrations of the holidays of the Id AL Adha, to the Saharawi political prisoners, congratulating them for their resistance and determination to defend the rights of their people to self-determination and independence.
Addressing a list of 56 Saharawi political prisoners, illegally detained by the Moroccan Government as a result to the peaceful uprising of the Saharawi population against the Moroccan colonialism in the occupied territories of Western Sahara and south Morocco, Mr. Abdelaziz wished the prisoners a happy holiday expressing them the solidarity of their brothers in the Saharawi refugee camps and their unconditioned support to the "heroes" of the Saharawi peaceful struggle for independence.
Mr. Abdelaziz, further, underlined that the "Intifada of independence, which has just finished its 8th month, is a new stage of the Saharawi struggle, adopting the peaceful civil resistance as a method and the self-determination and independence of the Western Sahara as a goal", the letter of the President, of which SPS received a copy, wrote. (SPS)
060/090/000 122122 Jan 06 SPS
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SAHARA
PRESS SERVICE