SPS SADR/MOROCCO/MEDIA/DENIAL Moroccan agency MAP launches a
new "false" information on Saharawi people, asserts Mr. Mohamed Sidati
20.03.05
Chahid El Hafed, 20/03/2005 (SPS)
The Minister Counsellor to the presidency delegated to Europe, Mohamed
Sidati, completely denied, Sunday, the "false" information propagated
last Thursday by the Maghreb Arab Press Agency (MAP), related to a
dismantling by Algerian National Gendarmes of a "pretended" network of
trafficking of human organs of Saharawi refugees, mainly children and
women.
Contacted via phone, Mr. Sidati asserted SPS that "this new and cruel
lie comes within the framework of the traditional Moroccan colonial
propaganda aimed at denigrating the perfect image of Saharawi people
and its legitimate representative Polisario Front".
"MAP, he underline, been the faithful pen of the Moroccan expansionist
and colonial propaganda, chose to launch this new information totally
invented so as to divert the international public opinion's attention
away from the serious human rights violations recently committed by the
Moroccan authorities of occupation against the Saharawi population in
occupied territories and south Morocco and against Saharawi students in
Moroccan universities".
On another hand, Colonel Ayoub, from the unit of communication in the
General Algerian National Gendarmerie, denied last Saturday the same
information. He affirmed that "it is false information", has indicated
Algerian newspaper "La Nouvelle République" in its Saturday's
edition.
The information spread by the MAP talks about some "600 patients in a
hospital in Tindouf, mainly children from Saharawi camps", who would
have been victims to, according to MAP, human organ trafficking and
were "declared dead by the authorities of the institution". There was
no mentioning of "the name of the pretended hospital", it should be
noted, though the dispatch pretended that its information was reported
from a source "on the ground", noted the Algerian newspaper. (SPS)
SAHARA
PRESS SERVICE