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SADR/UN/HUMAN RIGHTS/DEMONSTRATION
An international demonstration for the respect of human rights in Western Sahara
19.03.05



Geneva, 19/03/2005 (SPS) An international demonstration, gathering more than 200 participants, was organised last Friday in the Place of Nations in Geneva, to claim for the respect of human rights in Western Sahara, which are violated by Moroccan colonial authorities since its invasion and occupation of the territory in 1975, reported the correspondent of SPS on the ground.

The participants, who came from Spain, France, Belgium, Italy, Switzerland as well as Saharawi refugees’ camps, demonstrated for two hours in this Place where human rights activists tend to demonstrate during all the period of the meetings of the UN's Human Rights Committee.

The demonstrators were arising the SADR's flag, carrying pictures of Saharawi victims of disappearance and a long placard on which there was a drawing of "the wall of shame", which "put obstacles to the free movement of persons" and participates to the "isolation of the Saharawi population in occupied territories", allowing thus Moroccan colonial forces "stressing their repression against this population", said the manifesto of the participants.

Many speakers, in this demonstration, among whom the President of the EUCOCO, Pierre Galand, the Coordinator of the Spanish Parliamentary Intergroup, the Person in Charge of the Italian Coordination, Members of Swiss Committee and an important number of the Saharawis living in Diaspora firmly denounced "the persistence of the flagrant violations of human rights in occupied territories" and "the persecution against Saharawi human rights activists, who continuously live in fear, harassed, intimidated and deported to Morocco and among whom many still can not leave the territory".

Affirming their "steady commitment" to the Saharawi people struggle for its just cause, the speakers exhorted the international community to "get engaged so as to succeed the process of the decolonisation of Western Sahara conforming to law and to international legality".

This important demonstration was organised by the Swiss Committee of support to Saharawi people, doubled by the European Coordination (EUCOCO), the International Bureau for the Respect of Human Rights in Western Sahara (BIRDHSO), The Association of the Families of Saharawi prisoners and disappeared (AFAPREDESA), the International League for the rights and liberation of then peoples (LIDLIP) and the International League of the Women for peace and freedom (LIFPL). (SPS)

010/090/100/TRD 191123 MARS 05 SPS
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An international conference calls to the dismantling of the "wall of shame" in Western Sahara



Geneva, 19/03/2005 (SPS) An international conference, calling to the dismantling of the "wall of shame" erected since 1984 in Western Sahara by the Moroccan colonial forces, was organised Friday in Geneva with the participation of more than 200 delegates from about 10 European countries and members of the accredited diplomatic corps in Switzerland.

The conference strongly condemned this military building, which constitutes according to the participants "an insult to the universal consciousness and to human dignity", as well as an embodiment of "Moroccan illegal occupation of Western Sahara, its expansionist policy and violation of human rights", wrote the final press release issued by the conference.

A policy symbolised, for instance, by "the wall of shame erected all along Western Sahara separating the same people for 20 years" and filled with "terrible means of destruction, among which millions mines of all kinds that provoke death and desolation within the Saharawi population and the animal life in the territory".

The conference called the international community, the UN and the EU to use its influence so as to force Morocco "dismantle this wall that constitutes a real west that swallowed trillions dollars Moroccan people strongly needed to struggle against the extreme poverty and increasing pauperisation of its majority".

It addressed the EU, in particular, "this big supplier of the Moroccan State", especially France and Spain, who bare a heavy responsibility in the construction and maintenance of this wall "through the military and economic aid they provide the colonial and expansionist State with", so as to put an end to this "dangerous" policy.

It also called the UN's Security Council to "quickly achieve the decolonisation of the Saharawi territory, which was aborted in 1975 by the Moroccan invasion", estimating that the holding of a free and democratic referendum on self-determination "remains the most appropriate peaceful solution" to the conflict. (SPS)

010/090/100/TRD 191207 MARS 05 SPS


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