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SPS 20.000 New Moroccan soldiers in civil clothes, deployed in the occupied cities of Western Sahara 14.12.05
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Aaiun (occupied capital of Western Sahara), 14/12/2005 (SPS) Moroccan
Government reinforced its military and security apparatus in the occupied cities
of Western Sahara "with new military units, composed of 20.000 soldiers, wearing
civil clothes", SPS’s sources in the occupied territories affirmed.
"The first units, of 20.000 Moroccan soldiers, trained to urban warfare were deployed, by Rabatt, in the occupied cities of Western Sahara to reinforce the military and security apparatus already installed in the region. These new units are wearing civil clothes and will have to help the other Moroccan security and military corps in their daily repression against the Saharawi population, in uprising for the almost 7 months so far", one of the sources indicted.
This Monday, "units of this new repressive corps were deployed in intermediate and secondary schools in El Aaiun, while others in buses accompanied with military jeeps headed south after a brief passage in the Saharawi capital", the source added.
"The question is: Why are military forces wearing civil clothes deployed in Saharawi streets and schools?", one of the sources wondered, estimating that the only answer is that Rabat is decided "to support its policy of close repression against the Saharawi population, increasing the visible state of siege already ensured by the forces of police, GUS, armed forces and secret services in the different occupied cities of Western Sahara and south Morocco, and strengthen it with another state of siege, this time less notable, or at least hardly detectable".
"PWorst, the same source adds, I would say that Rabat is decided to keep on with its strategy of intimidation, torture assassination in public adopted against Saharawi demonstrators. And we still have a recent example on this strategy with the two odious crimes committed against two Martyrs, Hamdi Lembarki and Lekhlifi Aba Cheikh", two young Saharawis assassinated by Moroccan authorities in October in El Aaiun for the first and in December for the second in Tan Tan.
The President of the Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz, recently called on UN’s Secretary General, Kofi Annan, to protect the Saharawi civil population in the occupied territories of Western Sahara, underlining that the measures of repression against this population, in addition of been "violating the most fundamental human rights’ and international laws’ norms, are pushing the situation to collective massacres", it should be recalled. (SPS)
060/090/000 140135 Dec 05 SPS
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SPS Brutal intervention and confrontation between Saharawi students in Marrakech and Moroccan corps of repression
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Marrakech, 14/12/2005 (SPS) Moroccan corps of security attacked Saharawi students, who were organising informative days, in the university of Marrakech, on the nature of the question of the Western Sahara and the Moroccan human rights violations in the occupied territories, on Tuesday. They wounded some of the students and destroyed the expositions n the materials the students were using for this action, reported a student source to SPS.
"Due to the success of the expositions, conferences and debates Saharawi students initiated with Moroccan students during the first day of this initiative on the Saharawi question and on the Moroccan violations of human rights in Western Sahara, Moroccan authorities attacked the Saharawi students in the place where this action is organised destroying everything", the same source indicated.
Saharawi students resisted the attack and were able to push the attackers away from the university after a real battle, to which units of GUS, force of intervention and more than 50 agents in civil took part, the same source added.
Saharawi students organised after that a demonstration of protest chanting slogans in favour of Saharawi people’s right to freedom such as: "violence does not intimidate us and death would not exterminate us", "no other alternative to self-determination", "No to autonomy the independence of the Sahara is to come", "long live e popular front", among others.
Saharawi students of the University of Marrakech had organised since Monday morning "a constructive informative action", the same source added, "animating discussions in the university with the Moroccan students, exposing pictures of Saharawi victims of the last events, presenting to the students the reports of international organisations on the situation, among other activities. But the Moroccan authorities were not late to intervene as usual".
The goal of this days was "to raise the awareness of the Moroccan citizen an represent them the reality about the behaviour of the Moroccan Government in the Saharawi territories, Rabat is illegally occupying since its invasion of the Western Sahara in 1975, and to start a dialogue between the students of the two peoples", the same source added. (SPS)
060/090/000 140240 Dec 05 SPS
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SPS NGOs denounce the prompt entombment of victims of the events of June 1981 in Morocco
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Rabat, 14/12/2005 (SPS) Three Moroccan human rights’ NGOs declared on Tuesday to be concerned about the "destruction of material evidences" of the victims of the demonstrations of June the 21st 1981, whose dead bodies were found in collective graves in a Moroccan military Base that were buried two days before.
In a letter to the procurer of the king of the court of Casablanca, lawyers of
the Moroccan Association for Human Rights (AMDH), the Forum Truth and Justice an
the Moroccan Organisation for Human Rights (OMDH) estimated that the burial of
these victims is a "destruction of material evidences on crimes an a damaging of
the dead bodies".
On his part, the Committee of the victims of the events of June
1981
denounced this act of interment of 77 dead bodies found in three common graves,
estimating that this operation supervised by the judicial authorities of Casa
Casablanca and the Instance Fairness an Reconciliation, as "a way of hiding the
truth" on what happened.
The Moroccan human rights organisations as well as the Committee of the victims
of the events of June
1981 stressed on the "necessity to identify
the victims" and to brought the responsible of these crimes before justice. (SPS)
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SPS Many demonstrators injured in El Aaiun
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El Aaiun (occupied territories), 14/12/2005 (SPS) Dozens of Saharawis
organised a big demonstration in El Aaiun, the occupied capital of Western
Sahara, demanding the immediate and unconditioned release of all Saharawi
political prisoners and human rights activists and insisting on the immediate
withdrawal of the Moroccan occupation from their territories, concordant sources
indicated.
During this imposing peaceful demonstration, which coincided with the trials of
14 Saharawi political detainees, the demonstrators raised SADR’s flags in the
Skeikima and Maatallah Avenues, chanting slogans against the Moroccan colonial
presence, the same source added.
As usual the Moroccan forces of occupation brutally intervened to disperse the
demonstrators wounding 7 women: Zarga Boujemaa, Khadija Moulaye Ahmed Breika,
Mariem El Mami Maatallah, Doueya Moulaye El Hacen, Tagheila Salek Siblekheir,
Fatimetou Mohamed Selma Mouftah and a 10-year-old girl, Ghlana Hamad, as well as
5 men, mainly El Gheilani Maatallah, Alla El Mami, Khatri Kharoub, Labeid
Kharoub, Aziz Mohamed Selma Mouftah.
The forces of intervention also ransacked many Saharawi houses, in particular
the homes of the families of Mr. Salek Khalil, Mr. Khatri Boujemaa Nasri, Mr. El
Mami, Mr. El Gheilani Maatallah, Mr. Selma Oumar, Mr. Labeid and Mr. El Arbi
Cheikh, who was arrested, the same source emphasised.
On another hand, the flags of SADR were raised Monday evening by the inhabitants
of the Sidi Mohamed Deddach Avenue (El Aaiun), where demonstrators chanted
slogans advocating the Saharawi people’s right to self-determination and
independence.
The Moroccan colonial authorities blocked the streets of the city as well as all
the schools and centres of El Aaiun with all sorts of security and military
corps in addition to groups of soldiers newly dispatched from Morocco and
dressed in civilian clothes. (SPS)
020/090/000/TRD 141700 déc 05 SPS
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SPS Sentences of 6 months to 3 years imprisonment for 14 Saharawi political prisoners
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El Aaiun (occupied territories), 14/12/2005 (SPS) Moroccan colonial court of El Aaiun condemned 14 Saharawi political detainees, Wednesday, to sentences going between 6 months to 3 years imprisonment after having postponed the trials twice since last November the 22nd, concordant sources indicated.
The hearing, which started on Tuesday the 13th December at 9.00 am until Wednesday the 14th 06.00 am sentenced the following Saharawi detainees: El Wali Amaydan 6 months imprisonment, Aminatou Haidar 7 months, Ali Salem Tamek 8 months, Mohamed El Moutawakil, Houssein Lidri, Larbi Massoud and Brahim Noumria 10 months imprisonment, Mohamed Tahlil 3 years, while Hmad Hammad, Balla Mohamed, El Moussaoui Mohamed, Mahjoub Chtioui, Jenhi Lekhlifa and El Moussaoui Sidi Mohamed were sentenced to 2 years each, the same sources said.
Among the 14 Saharawi prisoners 7 Saharawi human rights activists are considered by Moroccan colonial authorities as the agitators of the demonstrations in favour of the independence of Western Sahara that are taking place in Western Sahara since last May the 21st.
In a letter it sent to the king Mohamed VI, the international human rights organisation underlined that the "proceedings so far have shown that the defendants' rights to a fair trial were at risk", knowing that under Morocco's constitution, the king serves as the president of the country's judiciary, Human Rights Watch emphasised. (SPS)
020/090/000 141820 Déc 05 SPS
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