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SPS The UN asked to protect the Saharawi population (Polisario) 19.05.05
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Geneva, 19/05/2006 (SPS) Polisario Front Representation in Switzerland asked the UN to "protect the Saharawi population", especially in the occupied city of El Aaiun, "the theatre to bloody confrontations between the Saharawi population, who demonstrate their categorical rejection of the colonial policy in the Western Sahara and the Moroccan forces of occupation".
The Saharawi diplomatic representation reported many cases of "abduction, arbitrary detentions, ransacking of houses and the expulsion of their owners, torture of dozens Saharawis who were detained for the majority in different Moroccan prisons".
"This pitiless and bloody repression, perpetrated by the Moroccan forces against the Saharawis, who chose the peaceful ways to advocate their legitimate rights guaranteed by the international law, intervenes at a moment when the UN Right Commissioner for Human Rights delegation is present in the occupied El Aaiun (capital of the Western Sahara), the representation noted in a press release.
"An unbearable situation at all levels", according to the press release, which warned against "a risk of outburst" (...) "bore the irreparable happens".
More than a hundred persons were injured, while some thirteen other are imprisoned in different police stations and gendarmerie headquarters at a moment when 14 houses are ransacked and robbed by the different Moroccan colonial forces in El Aaiun, which sealed the city during a three days visit by a UN High Commissioner for Human Rights mission, it should be recalled. (SPS)
010/090/000/TRD May 06 SPS
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SPS The Saharawi Government regrets that the UN Human Rights mission remains "cloistered" inside a hotel in El Aaiun
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Chahid El Hafed, 19/05/2006 (SPS) The Saharawi Government deeply regretted that the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights mission of investigation, in a visit to the Western Sahara since Monday, remains "cloistered" in a hotel in El Aaiun, at a moment where the Moroccan colonial forces repressed peaceful Saharawi demonstrations few meters from the delegation’s hotel.
"The Saharawi Government regrets that instead of visiting all the places where human rights violations were committed, directly meet the population and circulate freely, the members of the mission remained enclosed in the « Parador » Hotel, since their arrival to the territories, dedicating their time to listen to members of fictitious political and human rights organisations and representatives of the Moroccan colonial authorities, who were given the bigger amount of time", deplored a Saharawi press release issued on Friday.
"Worst, on May 17, while the Moroccan colonial forces were brutalising, repressing and arresting peaceful Saharawi demonstrators in the streets of the occupied city of El Aaiun and ransack their goods, the delegation remained cloistered inside its residency", the text SPS received underlined, adding that the following day, May 18, the Moroccan surety authorities "sealed the Parador Hotel and stopped Saharawi associations from meeting with the delegation", without any reaction from the later.
The Saharawi Government condemned the attitude of Morocco aimed at "hindering the UN delegation from achieving its mission and from drawing the light on the flagrant violations of the human rights the Saharawi populations are subjected to in the occupied territories of the Western Sahara".
It also called on the international community, especially the UN Security Council, to "urgently undertake all necessary measures to put an end to the policy of terror and defiance of the international legality adopted by Morocco in he Western Sahara, especially the implementation, without further delays, of the UN resolutions calling to the holding of a self-determination referendum of the Saharawi people".
The Saharawi Republic Government finally recalled that the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights delegation, which is present since May 1 in the occupied Saharawi capital, has got as a goal, as decided by the Security Council, to "investigate on the human rights situation in the territory and propose the mechanisms to establish for the protection of the sealed Saharawi population that is subjected to repression". (SPS)
010/090/100 191237 mai 06 SPS
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