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SPS A new Soweto in the middle of the occupied city of El Aaiun (Ambassador) 12.04.05
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Pretoria, 12/04/2006 (SPS) The Saharawi Ambassador to Pretoria, Obbi Bouchraya Bachir, compared the neighbourhood of "Matala" in the occupied city of El Aaiun, bastion of the Saharawi popular uprising, is "a new Soweto in the middle of El Aaiun", in an interview to the South African Television, SABC Africa.
The Ambassador stressed "the similarities between the Saharawi peaceful movement under the Moroccan occupation and that the South African population under the racist regime of the Apartheid".
"The most revealing fact of these affinities is the reincarnation of the neighbourhood of Soweto, which was a symbol of the popular resistance against the law of segregation, in the very middle of El Aaiun", the occupied capital of the Western Sahara.
The Saharawi activists in the occupied territories do not hesitate to compare their neighbourhood "Haï Maatalla" with "Haï Soweto" (Haï is the equivalent to neighbourhood in Arabic) in memory of the victims of the victims of the South African popular uprising in June 1976, and also in memory of the comrades of the young Hector, the south African victim of the racist regime of Pretoria as a similar case of the Saharawi Martyr Lembarki, a young man who was assassinated under torture by the Moroccan forces of occupation.
Asked about the recent Moroccan preposition to grant the Saharawis an "autonomy" with Moroccan sovereignty, the Saharawi Ambassador said that "the Saharawi people are the only side that can decide about the fate of the territory" and that his government "will not accept the denial of self-determination to its people".
"This so-called preposition is nothing for the Saharawis since it was already presented by Spain in 1974, in vain, and was proposed many times after by Morocco, but was always rejected by the Saharawis", he said. (SPS)
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SPS Saharawi political prisoners will start a 48 hours hunger strike
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El Aaiun (occupied territories), 12/04/2006 (SPS) The Saharawi political prisoners in the "Carcel negra" (Black Jail- in El Aaiun Western Sahara), Tiznit, Ait Melloul and Inzengan (Morocco) decided to undertake a 48 hours hunger strike, starting from Thursday, to protest against the "degrading situation" of human rights in the occupied territories of the Western Sahara, according to a press release the prisoners publicised on Wednesday, of which SPS received a copy.
The Saharawi political prisoner called on the international community to "an urgent intervention so as to protect the Saharawi citizens, especially the Saharawi political prisoners from the terrorism of the Moroccan State", the same source indicated.
They also "asked for the opening of an international investigation on the torture and other repressive methods to which 17 political prisoners were subjected last April the 4th while they were transported from the Black Jail to the Moroccan colonial court in El Aaiun", the text added.
The prisoners further "express their support and unconditional solidarity with the victims of the occupied city of Smara", condemning the "fascist methods adopted by the Moroccan regime against the Saharawi helpless civilians" in the occupied territories of the Western Sahara and south of Morocco.
The Saharawi political prisoners called on all the democratic forces to back them "so as to exercise pressures on the Moroccan Government to compel it respect the human rights in the Western Sahara and to conform to the international legality via the holding of a free, just and democratic referendum that respects the Saharawi people’s right to self-determination".
The text finally "hailed all the juridical, political, trade unionist, parliamentarian and governmental instances", which saved no efforts for the release of some of the Saharawi political prisoners. (SPS)
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