SPS SADR/FRANCE/MOROCCO A French association condemns
Moroccan "police violence" against Saharawi students
13.03.05
Paris, 13/03/2005 (SPS) The
Association of the Friends of SADR (AARASD) strongly denounced "the
police violence of the Moroccan State, which brutally repressed
Saharawi students' peaceful demonstrations”, indicated a press release
by the association, SPS received.
AARASD expressed its "surprise" in front of the behaviour of a system
that wants to "stop old practices of the years of oppression and
pretends to be increasingly respecting human rights in its country".
It put forward that for 30 years of exile, war and families'
separation, "the claims for independence and freedom within Saharawis
did not weaken and renew its forms of struggle within the young
students".
Finally, the association called all the parties, associations and trade
Unions that respect rights and defend justice to "the claims of the
Saharawi people for its self-determination and to vigorously denounce
not only Moroccan State violence but also its insistence in rejecting
the democratic expression of a whole people for more than 30 years".
The Moroccan police repressed last Tuesday in Rabat a demonstration
organised by Saharawi students, who claimed for the people's right to
self-determination and for human rights respect in Western Sahara. The
intervention of the police caused more than 18 injured students among
whom 4 girls were named, it should be recalled. (SPS).
SAHARA
PRESS SERVICE