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SPS UN mission to the Western Sahara’s programme filled with meetings with fictitious NGOs (human rights activists) 16.05.05
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El Aaiun (occupied territories), 16/05/2006 (SPS) The Moroccan colonial authorities established, in advance, a programme filled with meetings with fictitious NGOS and puppet bodies created for the occasion by the colonial administration to mislead the UN mission that will start a 3 days visit to the occupied territories, on the demand of the Un Secretary General, Kofi Anan, to investigate on the human rights violations in the Western Sahara.
"Unless they will be prudent, the international employees risk to lose a lot of time in official meetings with fictitious NGOs and other ramifications of the Moroccan colonial administration prepared weeks ago for this purpose", adverted a Saharawi human rights activist contacted by SPS, who asked for anonymity from the Saharawi occupied capital.
He fears that the Moroccan authorities "do not allow the UN mission to get to the streets to get in touch with the population", or to get in touch with the families of the victims of the Moroccan repression.
The activist, suggests to the members of the mission, chaired by the Swiss Christophe Girod, instead, to "gain time so as to deepen their investigation, by refusing to move to the other cities like Smara or de Dakhla", because, he stressed, "El Aaiun can be a testimony on the extent of tragedy lived by this part of the Saharawi people under Moroccan occupation for more than 30 years".
The Saharawi human rights activist, who is willing to meet the UN mission, indicated on another hand, that the Moroccan authorities, within the framework of the preparations to receive the UN mission, "deployed battalions of auxiliary forces to seal the popular neighbourhoods in El Aaiun". They even "invaded some schools, while others completely exchanged their military uniforms by traditional Saharawi clothes, knowing that the prices of these types of clothes raised considerably before they completely run out from the market ".
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights’ delegation, which arrived on Monday to Rabat, will move this evening to El Aaiun in order to investigate on the human rights situation, which is seriously degrading since the Moroccan colonial invasion of the Western Sahara in October the 31st 1975. The delegation will then move to the Saharawi refugee camps from the 20th to the 23rd of May.
A visit, that intervenes on the recommendation of the U Secretary General, Kofi Annan, in his last report represented last April the 18th to the UN Secretary general, in which he expressed his concerns about the human rights situation in the Western Sahara, the Non-Self-Governing territory put by Rabat under a military siege, including by a military wall erected since the early eighties dividing the territory and its people in two parts.
So much asked for by the Polisario Front in many letters sent by the President of the republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz, to the Un Security Council and U Secretary general, this visit will enable the President of the UN’s delegation, Christophe Girod, and the members of the same the German, Mrs. Karin Lucke, Coordinator of the Region of the Arab World, and the Lebanese, Roueida El Hage, in charge for North Africa, to investigate on the "tragedy of this people under colonial domination, in a territory that is submitted for more than a quarter century to a security and military siege", according to UJS. (SPS)
010/090/000/TRD 161804 May 05 SPS
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SPS The EU supports the right to self-determination in the Western Sahara
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Brussels, 16/05/2006 (SPS) The European Union (EU) "completely supports" the UN’s efforts for peace in the Western Sahara and the "right to self-determination" of the Saharawi people, the Union declared in a politic statement publicised Tuesday in Brussels, on the occasion of the holing of the first Council of the EU_ALGERIA Association, reported by the Algerian Press Service, APS.
The European Union "completely supports the efforts deployed by the UN Secretary General" in the Western Sahara "in favour of a just, lasting and mutually acceptable solution" of the Western Sahara conflict "that would enable the people of the territory to exercise their right to self-determination as envisage by the Un Security Council", the statement underlines in the part related to the regional situation, the same source added. (SPS)
010/090/700/TRD 161830 May 06 SPS
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SPS Seven Saharawi demonstrators arrested in the occupied cities, Smara and Boujdour
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Smara (occupied territories), 16/05/2006 (SPS) Seven Saharawi citizens, at least arrested during demonstrations against the Moroccan occupation of the Western Sahara, which took place Sunday in the occupied Saharawi cities, reported concordant sources.
The arrests took place during demonstrations organised by the Saharawi citizens in the "Salam" and "Tantan" streets in the occupied Smara. Demonstrators raised the Saharawi Republic’s flags and chanted slogans in favour of the independence of the Western Sahara.
Demonstrators were purchased and "brutally" tortured by the Moroccan forces, which arrested the following Saharawi citizens: Yahya El Jabari, Abdallah El Maati, Jatri El Moussaoui, Majidi and Labeidi Karroum Slama.
On another hand, in the occupied Boujdour the students of the secondary school "Mohamed Ben Ahmed Rachidi" organised a demonstration, on Sunday, raising the Saharawi national flags and chanting slogans advocating he Saharawi people’s right to self-determination and independence.
More than 600 tracts were distributed during these demonstrators, calling the Saharawi citizens to continue the popular and peaceful uprising of independence, which will celebrate its first anniversary this May the 21st, the same source added.
The Saharawi students were repressed by the Moroccan forces of occupation, which arrested the Saharawi students, Khaya Dadou and Khaya Yahefdou.
Finally, the inhabitants of the city of M'hamid El Ghezlan (South of Morocco) have raised the Saharawi Republic’ flags on the Moroccan Governmental offices and administrations, as well as at the entry of this Southern Moroccan city in celebration of the 33rd anniversary of the Polisario Front. (SPS)
070/090/110/TRD 160910 May 06 SPS
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SPS Abdallahi Hassan temporarily suspends his hunger strike
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El Aaiun (occupied territories), 16/05/2006 (SPS) The Saharawi political prisoner, Abdallahi Ali Salem Mohamed Salem Hassan, temporarily suspended, on Monday, a hunger strike he started in the Moroccan prison of Ait Mellul since April the 3rd, asking for his "immediate release" knowing that he was arrested "only because having participated in a peaceful demonstration" and spent "three months without trials".
The Saharawi political prisoner’s decision of breaking the hunger strike intervenes after having had "a compromise with the penitentiary administration to put an end to the torture and intimidations" to which he was subjected, as well as to the opening of "an official investigation against the responsible of this prison, Mustafa Zahid and the employee, Abd Elmoula", according to the same press release publicised by the Saharawi Ministry of Occupied Territories, of which SPS received a copy.
The Moroccan penitentiary authorities also promised to enable the Saharawi political prisoner to receive visits of the members of his family, the same source added.
The Saharawi political prisoner, Abdallahi Hassan, was arrested last February the 6th 2006 in Goulimin in company of his compatriot, Hamdi Labyad, who was recently releases. (SPS)
070/090/110/TRD 1601847 May 06 SPS
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