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SPS Three Saharawi students wounded in confrontations in the University of Agadir 12.03.06
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Agadir (Morocco), 12/03/2006 (SPS) Three students at least wounded in confrontations that took place in Friday evening, in the University of Agadir, between Moroccan students under the orders of the Moroccan secret services and Saharawi students, reported SPS’s correspondent on the ground.
A group of the Saharawi students were victim to aggression and torture on Friday afternoon, of whom three were seriously wounded, mainly Al Asri Ramdan, wounded in his head, Majid Zein Al Arab, wounded in his arms and back and Boutmit Brahim, wounded in his back, the same source added.
Agents of the Moroccan militias, under the lead of the pilot Mohamed El Mehdi, DST officer in company of the director of the University Campus of Agadir, Merzoug, blocked some Saharawis’ rooms while units of the CMI and of police sealed the campus while mobile patrols continue their "purchasing Saharawis so as to torture them or ill-treat them", the same source indicated.
The correspondent of the SPS asserted that the Saharawis are under siege in their residences in the university campus and in the University of Literature in Agadir. He estimated that possible confrontations may occur at any moment, in which the Moroccan local authorities "assume the full responsibility and consequences" that may result of any aggression against the Saharawi students.
In response to these aggressions, the Saharawi students in Marrakech organised a peaceful sit-in to protest against these violations against their brothers in Agadir and to show their solidarity with their compatriots. (SPS)
020/090/110/TRD 121515 Mars 06 SPS
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SPS Arrest of two young Saharawis in a cyber café in the occupied city of Aaiun
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El Aaiun (occupied territories), 12/03/2006 (SPS) The Moroccan forces of repression proceeded on Friday to the arrest of 2 young Saharawis in a cyber café in the occupied capital of the Saharawi Republic, accusing them "of been members to networks working under the orders of Polisario Front", indicated eye witnesses to SPS.
The two young men, Lili Hamoud and Ndour Mayane were arrested on Friday at 00.00 GMT by Moroccan agents of DST in a cyber café while they were "surfing in some websites about the Saharawi cause and national struggle", the same sources indicated.
The 2 youngsters were taken to the station of the Moroccan criminal police (PJ) of the occupied city of El Aaiun where they were submitted to interrogatory for more than 2 hours about their relations with the Saharawi activists and organisations of support of the Polisario front as well as about information concerning their families in the Saharawi refugee camps, the same sources added.
Asked about their relation with the Saharawi human right activist and ex-political detainee, Aminatou Haidar, the two young men said that "she is a symbol of the peaceful struggle for the freedom and independence in Western Sahara". The two youngsters were released few time after by the forces of occupation, it was further stressed.
On another hand a demonstration was organised by young Saharawis in the 'Skeikima' Street in the occupied city of El Aaiun, to which dozens Saharawis took part, "raising the flags of the Saharawi Republic and chanting slogans advocating the Saharawi people’s right to self-determination", the same sources recalled.
Demonstrators also called for the unconditional release of the Saharawi political prisoners, and were dispersed violently by the Moroccan forces of repression.
In the occupied city of Dakhla the flags of the Saharawi Republic were raised and slogans against the Moroccan illegal occupation of the Western Sahara were chanted by demonstrators, who advocated the independence of their territory. (SPS)
020/090/110/TRD 121330 Mar 06 SPS
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SPS The Saharawi President thanks his Namibian counterpart Hifikepunye Pohamba for his support to the Saharawi Republic
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Bir Lehlu, 12/03/2006(SPS) The President of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz, sent a message to Mr. Hifikepunye Pohamba, President of Namibia, expressing him his gratitude for the support of his country to the Saharawi cause and to the struggle for the recognition of the Saharawi national sovereignty.
"Our two peoples and countries are united in the same struggle for freedom, self-determination and independence, and these relations are even ore firm within the framework of the struggle of our continent for its decolonisation, progress and establishment of peace", the setter stressed.
"In the near passed, the courageous people of Namibia has been, in the struggle against the Apartheid in South Africa, a source of total confidence for the victory of the peoples who were struggling for freedom and self-determination, and is for us now, with its firm determination to realise the social and economic development under the leadership of Your Excellency, a motive of satisfaction and a source of confidence in the great future ahead".
The President of the Republic also renewed the determination of the Saharawi Republic, "to strengthen and improve the relations of brotherhood and friendship between our two countries, and to continue our discussions and contacts with Your Excellency about the strengthening of the African Union and about the success of the NIPAD for the establishment of democracy, development and peace in our dear continent". (SPS)
070/090/000/TRD 121430 mar. 06 SPS
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SPS Zapatero supports Saharawi people’s right to self-determination
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Madrid, 12/03/2006 (SPS) The President of the Spanish Government, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, expressed his support to the Saharawi people’s right to self-determination "with a view to respect the human rights of the Saharawi population, which we see as necessary within the search for a prompt solution".
"Reiterating on this occasion, as in 2004, during our encounter, the active engagement of my Government vis-à-vis the dispute of the Western Sahara to contribute, within the framework of the United Nations, for the search of a just and definitive political solution, which is accepted by the parties and respects the right to self-determination", Mr. Zapatero stressed in a letter he addressed to the Saharawi President, Mohamed Abdelaziz.
"We will continue to support and contribute with the international committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the European Union, for the resolution of questions such as that of the disappeareds and the confidence-building measures between the two parties", Zapatero concluded in his letter. (SPS)
070/090/110 122259 Mars 06 SPS
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