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SPS "The UN has never acknowledged that Morocco denies its engagements", the President of the Republic deplores 15.11.05
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Madrid, 15/112005 (SPS) The President of the Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz,
deplored the fact that "The UN has never acknowledged that Morocco denies its
engagements", and only says that "the positions are irreconcilable", he said in
an interview to the Spanish newspaper "El Mundo", publicised Monday. He
recognised that his people may resume to war if the UN fails to complete the
process of decolonisation of Western Sahara and because of Saharawis frustration
regarding the international community’s compassion with Rabat.
"The UN has never acknowledged that Morocco denies its engagements. Instead of
affirming that one of the parties has accepted the UN’s resolutions, the UN
addresses us saying that the positions are irreconcilable. We will not advance
relying on this logic. It should be clearly said that Saharawis are here backing
the international legality and that Morocco is opposing it, erecting obstacles
in the face of the process", he said.
"Morocco is a dictatorship that doe not respect human rights nor does it respect
the UN’s decisions. It is the spoiled kid (used in the text in French language-
c’est l'enfant gâté) of the French and the Spanish Governments in the region of
the Maghreb", he stressed, deploring that there are no "sufficient pressures on
Morocco to compel it accept the international legality".
To Mr. Abdelaziz, "the lack of firmness from the UN’s Security Council
engendered a great deception within Saharawi people". He estimated that the
popular uprising in the occupied territories and the peaceful popular resistance
that started since last May is an eloquent illustration of this frustration.
Mr. Abdelaziz warned that "if Morocco does not accept the international legality
and if the UN does not succeed in enforcing its resolutions, Polisario Front
will resume to war".
"In our
policy, resuming to arms was always considered as a possible perspective. When
and how? I do not know. We do not exclude it. We hope not to be pushed to, but
if Morocco does not accept the international legality and if the UN fails, we
will defend our right this way", Mr. Abdelaziz said.
In this respect, the Head of the State underlined that the legitimate armed
struggle of a colonised people is guaranteed by the international legality.
"There are resolutions specifically on the case of the Saharawi people that
legitimise their military struggle to defend their right to self-determination",
he said.
"Frankly speaking, we, as a leadership of the Polisario Front, are under
pressures of our military and social base. This criticism of the leadership was
even stronger since the uprising of the occupied territories and the repression
of the Moroccan authorities against our peaceful population. I can guarantee you
nothing. Nobody can predict the reaction of a desperate population that was
deceived. Its reaction is unpredictable", he warned.
Asked about
the period Saharawi people can resist, Mr. Abdelaziz affirmed that the
experience of the last 30 years proves that this people are "very attached to
their legitimate rights to self-determination and independence".
In his answer to question on the Madrid’s Tripartite Accords of 1975, he
considered that they were "a high treason, because nothing justified the signing
of these accords by the Spanish Government". "Spain did not have the right to do
that, its duty was to respect the process of decolonisation", he
underlined.
In this context, the President of the Republic asked the President of the
Spanish Government, José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, "to clearly support, without
concessions and firmly, Saharawi people’s right to the referendum (of
self-determination), which is a UN’s decision and represents the international
legality".
Recalling the events of the last three decades, he noted that "while Morocco was
trying to perpetrate a genocide, Saharawi people organised an exemplary
resistance, a struggle that made it possible to create Saharawis own State,
which is now recognised by more than 60 countries and is a member to the African
Union".
"After 16 years of war, king Hasan II, himself, accepted the fact that a
military victory on Saharawis is impossible and called the UN to intervene. This
is a fact. Now Saharawi people can be ignored
neither
in war nor in peace", he
affirmed. (SPS)
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SPS 57 persons injured and 97 others arrested during demonstrations in El Aaiun
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El Aaiun (occupied territories of Western Sahara), 15/11/2005 (SPS) 57 persons were injured and 97 others arrested by the Moroccan forces of occupation during peaceful demonstrations that took place Sunday and Monday in the occupied capital of Western Sahara, El Aaiun, claiming for the withdrawal of the Moroccan colonialism and demanding Saharawi people’s right to self-determination, according to the correspondent of SPS on the ground.
Moroccan forces of repression ransacked more than 32 Saharawi houses, the same source indicated, adding that at least one person, named Hassenna Lekhfaouni, is reported missing while Saharawi citizen Mr. Sahel Ould Brahim, who has his leg broken, was arrested by Moroccan agents, tortured and abandoned to his fate in a street.
The city of El Aaiun is completely sealed by the different corps of Moroccan police, groups of intervention (GIR), Groups Urban of Security (GUS), Royal Gendarmerie and units of the Moroccan Royal Army (FAR). All these forces control the popular streets of the city and ransacked dozens houses.
Last Sunday, Saharawi population in El Aaiun organized a big demonstration through the main streets of the city.
Demonstrators chanted slogans against the Moroccan occupation of their territory and claimed for their right to self-determination, lifting SADR’s flag that was always lifted on houses roofs and in electric poles.
Students of two secondary schools in El Aaiun organised, Monday morning, a peaceful demonstration that was soon repressed by Moroccan forces, which purchased demonstrators in the neighbouring streets and neighbourhoods, breaking in houses and injuring more than 11 students, the same source added. (SPS)
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SPS Nominative lists of arrested and injured persons and of ransacked houses in El Aaiun
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El Aaiun (occupied territories of Western Sahara), 15/11/2005(SPS) Dozens persons were injured and about a hundred others arrested by the Moroccan forces during peaceful demonstrations that took place Sunday and Monday in the occupied capital of Western Sahara, El Aaiun, claiming for the withdrawal of the Moroccan colonialism and demanding Saharawi people’s right to self-determination, according to the correspondent of SPS on the ground.
Here is a nominative list of the political detainees, injured and the families’ whose houses were ransacked:
01. Yehdih Mohamed Maatala
02. El Bekaye M'haissinatt Maatala
03. Soueyih Mohamed Lamine Salek
04. Sidatti El Assali
05. Kmach Mohamed Ali
06. Hamza ElGhadi
07. Mahjouba El Bachir Ikraitta
08. Manssoura Echekouti
09. El Kebir Abderrahman
10. Deich Hamad ould Maatala
11. Saadi Sahel
12. El Moussawi Ahmed Boujimaa
12. Heidala Khouna
13. Najem El Khalil
14. Boutebaa El Hanavi Ahmed
15. Soueyih Cheikh Mohamed Najem
16. Soueyih Abderrahman
17. Bouchra Mohamed Fadel Bouchraya
18. Boutebaa El Boukhary
19. Ragueb El kinty
20. Soueyih Abderrahmane
21. Saleh Ahmed Hama
22. Mohamed ould Mohamed Salem
23. Ahmed ould Nah
24. Heidala El Khalil
25. Heidala Fedali
26. Fadili Taher Maatala
27. Cheikh Mohamed Najem
28. Mohamed Lamine ould Dgheich
29. Chaarawi Bouchra
30. Hassana El Khalfawi
31. Sid'Ahmed ould Ahmedou ould Boujemaa
32. Mint Akhoualha mint Mohamed Lamine Baayir
As well as all the members of the family of Ehel Tanji without exception.
List of the injureds persons:
01 - Mohamed Saleh Lehcen
02 - Mohamed Ahmed El Filaly
03 - Najem Ould el Khalil
04 - Mohamed Ould Bellahi
05 - Mariem Sallahi
06 - Aminetou Sidi Mohamed Boutebaa
07 - Fatimetou Ahmed Ali Salem
08 - Selma Salek Lefdhil
09 - Liha Elfneich
10 - Mohamed Andallah Rahmoune
11 - Fatimetou Hmad
12 - Essahel Brahim Aleya
13 - Nemaa Ahmed Salem Ahmed Baba
14 - Al idriss Sid'Ahmed Rgueiby
15 - El Hallati El Izza
16 - Boukreiss Oumeima
17 - Minetou Ghlana mint Ely
18 - Nemaa El Moussaoui
19 - Ehel Meidou
20 - Loubeihi Mouloud
21 - Hademine Habouh
22 - Ndorha mint Bouzeid
23 - Ahmed Ould Bhey Ould Nouf
24 - Bismillah Aliha Elfneich
25 - Essaadi Aziza
26 - Essaadi Essahel
27 - Raguib El Kenti
28 - Khawala Saaidi
29 - Ahmed Saaidi
30 - El Mahfoudh Essaadi Raguib
31 - Essahel El Messoudi
32 - El Moussaoui Sid'Ahmed
33 - Aziza Selma El bachir
34 - Vadala Amidou
35 - Amina Amidou
36 - Abeid Amidou
37 - Mariem Abderrahmane
38 - Feila Bellahi Breir
39 - Noumria Habib Loud Abderrahmane
40 - Boussaoula Abdellahi
41 - Salka Mohamed Salem El Meki
42 - Beila Fatimetou
43 - Al Ammari Abdel Moula
44 - Ahal Ali ould Maatala
45 - Ghleila Mohamed Salem
46 - Saadi Hseina
47 - Oumar Sid'Ahmed Abdel Maoula
48 - Mohamed Ould Lehbib (Sarghali)
49 - Fatimetou mint Ahmed Ould Boutebaa
50 - Aminetou mint Ahmed Boutebaa
51 - Aziza Selma El Bachir
52 - Mouloud Ould Ali
53 - Hassena Taguelbout
54 - Abderrahmen Salek
55 - Mariem Mohamed Brahim Doueih
56 - Azza Kerkoub
57 - Hayoun El Mahjoub
58 - Zeidan El Moussaoui
59 - Abidine Sbaai
60 - Bacca Jenhaoui
61 - Brahim Regragui
62 - Brahim El Mansouri
63 - Mohamed Haddi
64 - Moustapha Mennan
65 - Brahim Lembarki
66 - M'hamed Bellahi
67 - Hammadi Lak
68 - Bachir El Foukraoui
69 - Mohamed Mouloud Metnan
70 - Ben El Alem Ahmed Mohamed Fadel
71 - El Ghadhi Hamza
72 - Dahouar Ali Salem
73 - El Berbouchi Sidi Mohamed
74 - Lehbib Larroussi
75 - Lehbib Noumria
76 - Aleya Laabaj
77 - Mohamed Mahmoud Chnan
78 - Zerouali El Houssein
79 - Ahmed ould Bachir Ould Ahmed Ali
80 - Fatimetou mint Breih
81 - Mohamed Toubali
82 - Fatimetou mint Mohamed Yahdih Ould Maatala
Families whose houses were ransacked by Moroccan colonial forces:
01. Ehel Hafed
02. El Moussawui Ahmed Boujemaa
03. Ehel Saadi Sahel
04. Abidine Brahim
05. Fatimetou Hamad Mattallah
06. Salma Mattallah
07. Bahia Naouf
08. Cheikh Ameidan
09. Mouloud Ali
10. Bechir Lebeihi
11. Ahmed Labeid
12. Salek Noumria
13. Khouna R'Gueibi
14. Mbarek Selouki
15. Lemen Ehel Cheikh
16. Boujemaa Ehel Mamoun
17. El Mami Mohamed Saaid
18. Ehel Kmach
19. El Kadi Aillal
20. Ehel Breih
21. Ehel Jaaidar
It was underlined that Moroccan forces of occupation plundered these houses after they brutalised the members of the families, destroying the furniture and beating them to dissuade them from providing demonstrators with shelter. (SPS)
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