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SPS Abduction of a Saharawi ex-political prisoner in the occupied city of El Aaiun 13.10.06
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El Aaiun (occupied territories), 13/10/2006 (SPS) The Moroccan forces of occupation ransacked Mr. Mohamed M'barek Amidan’s family house, on Thursday, to abduct his son, the ex-political prisoner, El Wali Amidan, reported reliable sources.
The Saharawi ex-political prisoner, El Wali Amidan, was abducted from his family house after an attack led by about 30 Moroccan vehicle of the different colonial military and police corps, who ransacked the house, destroying their property, the same sources added.
The attackers also "brutally" tortured the members of the political prisoner’s family, some of whom were seriously injured, it was indicated.
On another hand, Saharawi students in the primary schools, "Tareq Ibn Zayad", in the occupied city of El Aaiun lifted many flags of the Saharawi Republic on their school on the occasion of the celebration by the Saharawi people of the 31st anniversary of the National Union, declared in October 12th 1975.
The students’ movement in the occupied city of El Aaiun, affirmed "its engagement to pursue the peaceful struggle through the intifada of independence, demanding for the immediate and unconditional release of all the Saharawi political prisoners and reaffirming their attachment to the political leadership of the Polisario Front", the same sources concluded. (SPS)
020/090/110/TRD 131050 Oct 06 SPS
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SPS Two Saharawi human rights activists interrupt their hunger strike
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El Aaiun (occupied territories), 13/10/2006 (SPS) The Secretary General of the Saharawi Association of the Victims of the Flagrant Human Right Violations Committed by the Moroccan State (ASVGDHEM), Mr. Brahim Sabbar and Mr. Ahmed Sbai, interrupted the hunger strike they started last September the 4th 2006 in the notorious Carcel Negra to protest against the Moroccan refusal to favourably answer their legitimate claims.
The interruption of the hunger strike "intervenes in response to the requests of our families, as well as to appeals from different local and international organisations as a result to the deterioration of our state of health", the two political prisoners wrote in a press release they publicised on Friday, of which SPS received a copy.
Mr. Brahim Sabbar Ahmed and Mr. Sbai, Vice-President of the Committee for the Protection of the Saharawi political prisoners, reaffirm their "determined attachment to our legitimate claims as political prisoners and to the inalienable right of the Saharawi people to self-determination and independence".
On another hand, they "highly salute the Saharawi people and Government, as well as the legitimate representative of the Saharawi people, Polisario front", on the occasion of the celebration of the 31st anniversary of the National Unity (October the 12th).
The two Saharawi human rights activist finally denounced Rabat’s refusal, to authorise a visit of a European Parliament’s ad-hoc delegation that was supposed to take place last October the 5th, asking the UN "to assume its responsibilities in the face of the gross human rights violations perpetrated by the Moroccan State against the helpless Saharawi civilians in the occupied territories of the Western Sahara".
Mr. Sabbar and Mr. Ahmed Sbai, were arrested by the Moroccan colonial authorities last June in the occupied city of El Aaiun in company of their compatriots, Mr. Haddi Ahmed Mahmoud, alias: Elkainan, and his brother Haddi Salah, upon their return from the occupied city of Bojador, where they supervised the creation of a section of the ASVGDHEM, it should be recalled. (SPS)
020/090/110/TRD 131215 Oct 06 SPS
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SPS The Saharawi Consultative Council condemns "the barbarous violence" exercised by Morocco against Saharawi people
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Ausserd (refugee camps), 13/10/2006 (SPS) The Saharawi Consultative Council condemned, Thursday in a declaration, "the barbarous and inhumane violence exercised by the Moroccan State against the Saharawi citizens in the occupied territories of the Western Sahara" and called on the international community to intervene so as to "put an end to the policy of the colonial fait accompli".
At the end of the 5th session, held on Friday in Ausserd, under the presidency of the President of the Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz, the Saharawi Consultative Council "registered the conclusions" and recommendations of the report of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights’ mission, which talked about the daily persecution to which the Saharawi population is subjected by Morocco in the occupied territories of the Western Sahara.
In this respect, it asked for the "adoption of measures capable of imposing the respect of the implementation of the right to self-determination of the Saharawi people through a free, regular and transparent referendum", as it was clearly stipulated in the HCHR’s report.
The Saharawi Consultative Council also estimated that the rickety colonial solutions proposed by Morocco "are no more than a desperate attempt of the enemy aiming to the destruction of the national acquisition of our people, who found in the Polisario Front the legal political frame that is able to realise their aspiration".
The Council finally paid tribute "to the heroism of our sons in the occupied territories of the Western Sahara and in the south of Morocco, who reinforced the spirit of the national union, consolidated the national struggle for independence and unveiled the failure of the Moroccan regime’s claims".
The meeting of the Saharawi Consultative Council took place with the presence of the Prime Minister, Abdelkader Taleb Oumar, and many members of the Saharawi government and of the Polisario Front’s National Secretariat.
The Consultative Council was created in 2001, to gather all the Chiefs of tribes who participated in the UN operation of the identification of the Saharawi eligible voters who should participate to the promised self-determination referendum, which was first planed to take place in 1992. (SPS)
010/090/100/TRD 131200 oct 06 SPS
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SPS Aminetou Haidar: "Morocco reproduces in the Western Sahara the practices of the expansionist countries"
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Paris, 13/10/2006 (SPS) Mrs. Aminetou Haidar, Saharawi human rights activists and ex-political prisoner, estimated in the columns of the French newspapers, « l’Humanité », that "Morocco reproduces in the Western Sahara the practices of the expansionist countries, which usurps others territories through propaganda to justify the annexation since 1975".
In the Western Sahara Morocco practices "spoliation of the natural resources plundering the fishing reserves, the phosphate of Boucraa’s mine, one of the richest mines world wide, and dream about the Saharawi sub-soil, which is rich with minerals", Mrs. Aminetou Haidar said.
The Saharawi human rights activist, who was the guest of the week of the French Communist newspaper, invited the newspaper to consecrate a daily chronicle on one of the aspects of the Moroccan occupation of the Western Sahara or the struggle of the Saharawi people for self-determination and independence.
She briefly reported to the French newspaper "the Moroccan security siege that is ealing the territory" and said that "the rare visits to the occupied territories are impressed by the omnipresence of the police, gendarmerie and GUS (a Moroccan barbarous police corps), which are deployed in the streets and neighbourhoods". (SPS)
010/090/700/TRD 131719 oct 06 SPS
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SPS Mrs. Haidar pursues its mobilisation activities in France
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Paris, 13/10/2006 (SPS) The Saharawi human rights activists and ex-political prisoner, Mrs. Aminetou Haidar, pursues in Paris her meetings with political personalities and representative of the civil society to mobilise the public opinion on the Saharawi people right to self-determination.
In France, she presented the current "worrying" situation in the Western Sahara and stressed the Saharawi people’s right to self-determination as "the unique reliable and viable alternative" to the solution of this question of decolonisation.
The French Amnesty International section, the international press, the Saharawi community in France, many French elected, among others, met with the Saharawi human rights activist, who received this year two human rights awards for her peaceful struggle, mainly the "Juan Maria Bandras" for the defence of the rights of refugees, and the American "Freedom award".
Mrs. Hiadar described the Saharawi people’s peaceful struggle for their right to the sovereign administration of their future, underlined that a "steady Intifada", started in the occupied territories of the Western Sahara, as she called it in the French newspaper.
Despite of the repressive siege imposed by the Moroccan authorities since the occupation of the Western Sahara in 1975, "the action of the Saharawi human rights defenders succeeded to break the wall of silence, unveiling to the world the serious human rights violations", committed against the Saharawi population by the Moroccan State.
She added that "even the children are implicated in the struggle, by drawing the Saharawi flags. In schools, in streets, they are not saved from the police truncheons, like women and old persons, who are respected by our society".
"Do they think that they can intimidate us, or push us to give up our legitimate rights?", she aid, underlining that "the voice, which was confiscated for 30 years, is finally liberated" and that "the resistance took the shape of a peaceful intifada will tirelessly continues". (SPS)
010/090/700/TRD 131734 ct 06 SPS
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SPS The UN Fourth Commission reaffirmed the Saharawi people’s right to self-determination
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New York (United Nations), 13/10/2006 (SPS) The UN General Assembly Fourth Commission adopted a resolution reaffirming the Saharawi people’s rights to self-determination, on Friday with 76 voices for and no one against,.
Adopted in implementation of the UN General Assembly’s resolution 1514 relative to the granting of independence to colonised countries and peoples, this new resolution, which had a significant political majority, reaffirmed the Western Sahara’s people right to self-determination and reiterates the validity of the Settlement Plan accepted by Morocco and Polisario Front and approved by the Un Security Council.
It also underlined the international community’s support to the Baker Plan, which is adopted by the Security Council as the optimum political solution to the Western Sahara’s conflict. (SPS)
010/090/700/TRD 111702 oct 06 SPS
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SPS The Saharawi Government satisfied about the adoption by the Fourth Commission of the Saharawi people’s right to self-determination
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New York, (United Nations), 13/10/2006 (SPS) The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mohamed Salem Ould Salek, expressed his satisfaction about the adoption, on Friday in New York, by the UN General Assembly’s Fourth Commission of a resolution that consecrates "the Saharawi people’s right to self-determination".
In an exclusive statement to the Saharawi Press Agency, Mr. Ould Salek qualified the resolution as "important" since it "reaffirms with strength the determination of the international community to ensure the decolonisation of the Western Sahara, the last colony in Africa".
"The resolution reaffirmed the inalienable right of the Saharawi people to self-determination, the validity of the settlement plans and reiterates the UN’s responsibilities of the Saharawi people", he added.
To Mr. Ould Salek, "this diplomatic victory of the Saharawi cause, which comes after the resolution adopted by the Non-Aligned Countries’ Summit in Havana, and after the publication of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights’ report confirmed that Morocco, goes against the flow of history and international legality".
He further stressed that the only "just, reliable and realist solution" to the conflict is in the "exercise by the Saharawi people of their inalienable right to self-determination and independence, through a free and democratic referendum organised and supervised by the United Nations in cooperation with the African Union".
"Any other demarche is only a manœuvre and a waste of time and means", he stressed.
The UN General Assembly’s Fourth Commission adopted on Friday with 76 voice for and none against, a resolution reaffirming the Saharawi people’s right to self-determination and reiterated the validity of the Settlement plan the UN’s adopted in 1991 and accepted by the two parties to the conflict, Morocco and Polisario Front, as well as the Baker Plan, both adopted by the UN Security Council. (SPS)
010/090/100/TRD 131902 oct 06 SPS
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