SPS OCCUPIED
TERRITORIES/MOROCCO/HULAN RIGHTS The city of Dakhla joins other
Saharawi occupied cities in their rejection of Moroccan colonialism
14.12.04
Dakhla (occupied territory),
14/12/04 (SPS) The occupied city of Dakhla woke up Monday to be the
theatre to a sit-in organised by Saharawi graduates forced to
unemployment and other Saharawi social groups, within the framework of
the celebration by the Saharawi people in occupied territories of SADR,
indicated a source from the Saharawi Ministry for Occupied Territories
and Communities to Sahara Press Service.
Graduates, students, workers of the fishing sector and Saharawi women
gathered in front of the seat of the Governor of Moroccan
administration of occupation in Dakhla, "to protest against Moroccan
colonial policy that aims at marginalising the Saharawi population by
impoverishing them and forcing them to submission and humiliation",
declared one of the organisers of the demonstration to the same source.
"We want to tell the whole world through all the peaceful means in our
hands that we are living a critical human rights situation. We are
daily suffering arbitrary detentions, intimidations, forced
deportations to Moroccan cities, restrictions on our most fundamental
rights, and humiliation on our own territory perpetrated by the
Moroccan forces of invasion. And we want that someone somewhere in this
pretended small global village, which is pretending that justice exists
on earth, to come and see what is happening here in occupied
territories of Western Sahara", bitterly added the same person.
This demonstration also intervenes within the framework of the
International day for Human rights, said the source from the ministry,
and "is a proof of solidarity and support to other demonstrators in El
Aaiun, Smara and Assa, which took place recently", he added.
"Hundreds" of Saharawis participated to the demonstration, emphasised
the same source, adding that Moroccan colonial authorities "had as
usual surrounded the demonstrators and tried to intimidate them".
It should be recalled that Saharawi social society in occupied
territories has organised Friday manifestations and sit-ins in the main
Saharawi occupied cities, indicated matching sources from the Saharawi
ministry for occupied territories and communities.
In the occupied Capital of SADR, El Aaiun, the Local Committee of
Support to the International Campaign for the protection of Human
rights defenders in Western Sahara (CSCIPDH), organised a demonstration
and a march heading towards the headquarters of the Minurso despite of
"the obstacles erected by the Moroccan forces", who surrounded the
demonstrators in an attempt to intimidate and disperse them.
On their side the workers and retired of the company "Fusboucraa"
(former Spanish phosphate company exploited by Morocco since 1977) had
organised another demonstration in which they raised placards "claiming
for their social, economic and human rights, which are systematically
violated since the Moroccan military invasion in 1975".
Smara, the spiritual capital of Western Sahara, on its part, was the
theatre to a demonstration by the families of political prisoners and
reported missing and Saharawi graduates, who demonstrated to "demand
that the truth be revealed on the fate of their sons, imprisoned or
reported missing, and that the bodies of the dead of them be delivered
back" to their families, it was added.
Assa, "the Tour of defiance and resistance" as Saharawi population in
occupied territories called it, was on its side the theatre to
demonstrations and a march of protestation to which all Saharawi social
groups participated.
On another hand, the Association of the Families of Saharawi Prisoners
and Disappeared (AFAPREDESA) and the Saharawi Jurists' Union (UJS)
called "all international Bodies, organisations and associations to
denounce human rights abuses perpetrated by Moroccan authorities
against Saharawi citizens in occupied territories of Western Sahara",
indicated a joint communiqué the two NGOs publicised Friday on
the occasion of the International Day for Human Rights. (SPS)
SAHARA
PRESS SERVICE