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SPS OCCUPIED TERRITORIES/HUMAN RIGHTS/MEDIAS Mr. Sabbar denounces human rights violations in the Western Sahara in a Moroccan newspaper 14.06.05
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Rabat, 15/06/2006 (SPS) Mr. Brahim Sabar, S.G of the Saharawi Association of the victims of the human rights committed by the Moroccan State (ASVGVDHEM), vividly denounced "the systematic and persistent human rights violations", perpetrated by the Moroccan Government against the Saharawi civilians and warned against the dangers of the "radicalisation" of the Intifada if Rabat persists in its repression.
Mr. Sabar, who is also a member of the "Saharawi Committee for a self-determination referendum", stressed last Saturday in the Moroccan newspaper, El Bidaoui that the Moroccan Government invested a lot in a real genocide against the Saharawi people since the military invasion of the territory in 1975.
"Many human rights NGOs reported in their reports on the flagrant human rights violations committed in the 90ies perpetrated by the Moroccan State in the Western Sahara since 1975, mainly: the kidnapping, arrests, tortures, rapes and premeditated assassinations, threats, terror, repression, bombardment of the cities full of innocent civilians with banned bombs, deportations and extermination of live-stock", Mr. Sabar recalled.
He also added that "common graves where alive persons were buried", underlining that this kind of human rights violations is considered by the Geneva Human Rights Conventions as "war crimes and crimes against humanity".
"Such activities continue to rage" in the occupied territories of the Western Sahara, he said, adding that "since May 2005, these violations were accentuated by a daily repression against the Saharawi citizens, who express through peaceful demonstrations their attachment to their right to self-determination and independence".
Mr. Sabar did not exclude a possible tragedy, "if the international community does not intervene to put an end to this sad tragedy and exercise pressures so as to implement the international legality".
To Mr. Sabar, "the exemplary democratic solution lies in the implementation of the international legality through a self-determination referendum supervised by the UN as proposed in the Baker Plan, Polisario accepted with courage, despite the concession it gave". (SPS)
010/090/600/TRD 151417 Jun 06 SPS
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SPS OCCUPIED TERRITORIES/HUMAN RIGHTS A Saharawi NGO denounced Moroccan repression against Saharawi political prisoners
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El Aaiun (occupied territories), 15/06/2006 (SPS) The Committee for the protection of the Saharawi political prisoners in the Carcel Negra in El Aaiun, denounced on Wednesday, the attitude of the penitentiary authorities against the political prisoners in hunger strike since May the 31st and whose estate of health became "critical", the Committee stressed in a press release, of which SPS received a copy.
The Committee drew the attention of the international and local opinion on the "deplorable" situation of two political prisoners, El Moussaoui Ahmed and Lehmad Deddi, deprived by the director of the prison from medical care and from the visit of their relatives, the press release stressed.
The text affirmed the responsibility of the Moroccan State of the consequences that may result from the "deterioration" of the state of health of the political prisoners.
The Saharawi NGO launched an appeal to international community and human rights organisations to intervene vis-ŕ-vis Morocco "for the unconditional release" of all Saharawi political prisoners in Moroccan prisons.
The Committee finally expressed its attachment to the Saharawi people right to self-determination through a just and transparent self-determination under the auspices of the UN.
On his side, the RAFTO Human Rights Price 2002 winner, Sidi Mohamed Deddech, called on all international human rights organisations, to "save the lives" of the Saharawi political prisoners in the Carcel negra (Western Sahara), in the local prisons of Inzegan and Ait Melloul, (South Morocco) (SPS)
020/090/110/TRD 151141 jun 06 SPS
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SPS SADR/SWITZERLAND Two Swiss parties ask for the implementation of the Baker Plan in the Western Sahara
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Berne, 15/06/2006 (SPS) Deputies of the Swiss Ecologist Party- Greens (PES) and the Swiss Socialist Party (PSS) asked for the implementation of he Baker Plan in the Western Sahara, which "constitutes an optimum political solution based on an accord between the two parties the conflict", underlined a joined statement adopted after a meeting in Berne, at the seat of the Federal Assembly (Swiss Parliament) between a delegation of the Saharawi Parliament and Swiss deputies.
The two Swiss parties reaffirmed their support to the "Saharawi people’s inalienable right to self-determination, conforming to the international legality", added the statement that was adopted after the meeting-debate that took place on Wednesday under the theme "What solution for the Western Sahara".
On another hand, they expressed their "vivid preoccupations regarding the conflicting situation that prevails in the Western Sahara, especially the delays, sine die, in the holding of a self-determination referendum that should enable the Saharawi people to freely choose their future".
The two parties also exhorted the UN to adopt "a firm resolution that condemns the human rights violations in the Western Sahara" and called to the "the continuity of the UN HCR confidence-building measures, which enabled the Saharawi citizens from both sides of the wall erected by Morocco in the Western Sahara to meet after more than three decades of separation, exile and sufferings".
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