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SPS Demonstrations continues in the main neighbourhoods of the occupied Saharawi cities 22.12.05
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Boujdour (occupied territories), 22/12/2005 (SPS) Continuous demonstrations rejecting the Moroccan occupation and asking for the independence of Western Sahara are organised by Saharawi population, since last Tuesday, in the main neighbourhoods of the occupied Saharawi cities, Dakhla, El Aaiun, Smara and Boujdour, where two persons, at least, were arrested on Wednesday, reported SPS’s correspondents on the ground.
The Saharawi Republic’s flags were raised by young Saharawis in the occupied city of Boujdour, where the demonstrators chanted slogans asking for the immediate withdrawal of the Moroccan occupation from Western Sahara and for Saharawi people’s right to self-determination and independence.
Moroccan forces of occupation brutally intervened to disperse the demonstrators. They arrested two persons, mainly Khaya Bachir and Mahjoub Soudani, and led them to a police station in the city, the same sources indicated.
A similar demonstration was organised in El Aaiun, the occupied capital of Western Sahara, on Wednesday, to denounce the Moroccan illegal occupation of the territory.
In Dakhla, the main southern city of Western Sahara, young Saharawis raised the Saharawi national colours and organised a march in the streets of the city, chanting slogans in favour of the independence of their land.
The spiritual capital of the non-self-governing territory was on its part the theatre to a demonstration, last Tuesday evening, that took place for about an hour before being dispersed and repressed by the Moroccan repressive corps, the same sources indicated.
It should be noted that the occupied territories of Western Sahara, El Aaiun in particular, are put under a tight state of exception since last December the 16th. This reinforcement of the Moroccan military siege is especially characterised by a deployment of 20.000 Moroccan soldiers dressed in civil clothes. This new attitude may lead to a civil war between Moroccan settlers and Saharawis, the same sources indicated. (SPS)
020/090/000/TRD 221430 Dec 05 SPS
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SPS The Moroccan colonial court in El Aaiun condemns a Saharawi student to 4 months imprisonment
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El Aaiun (occupied territories), 22/12/2005 (SPS) The Moroccan colonial court in El Aaiun condemned, on Thursday, the Saharawi student, Mr. Sid’Ahmed N’dour, for having participated to peaceful demonstrations that took place in the occupied capital of Western Sahara last Friday the 16th to claim for the Saharawi people’s right to self-determination, according to concordant sources.
Mr. Sid’Ahmed N’dour was brought before the Moroccan colonial court last Tuesday and was accused of "humiliation of an employee and participation in a non authorised rally", the same source indicated.
In his defence, the young Saharawi said he participated to this peaceful demonstrations, and raise Saharawi Republic’s flag, "to support the rights to self-determination and independence of his people who are colonised by Morocco".
The young Saharawi was condemned to 4 months imprisonment during a trial attended by many Saharawi citizens, who raised the flags of the Saharawi Republic and chanted slogans in favour of Saharawi people’s right to self-determination, the same source indicated. (SPS)
020/090/000/TRD 221540 Dec 05 SPS
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SPS Opening of the Saharawi Parliament’s autumn session
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Aousserd, 22/12/2005(SPS) The Saharawi National Council (Parliament) opened its autumn session in Aousserd on Tuesday with the presence of the Prime Minister, Abdelkader Taleb Omar, and members of his Government.
In his opening speech, the President of the Parliament, Mahfoud Eli Beiba, stressed on the singularity of this session, which is "characterised by three main factors that should mark the works of this session", he said.
"These factors are: the heroic national resistance that enters its 7th month in the Saharawi occupied territories against the Moroccan occupier, the commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the Parliament and the preparations to the commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the proclamation of the Saharawi Republic", he stressed.
The debates within the Parliament were started on Wednesday in Aousserd with the hearing and discussion of a report by the Committee for Judicial and Administrative Affairs followed by the report of the Committee for Defence.
The different other Committees will present their reports one after another before hearing the Saharawi Ministers, it was indicated.
This autumn session will be closed by the adoption of the programme of the Government of Mr. Taleb Oumar for the next year (2006), it was further said. (SPS)
040/090/000/TRD 221830 dec 05 SPS
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SPS New repressive tactics by the Moroccan authorities: abandoning Saharawi youngsters in the middle of the desert, according to Canaria7
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Las Palmas (Canary Islands- Spain), 22/12/2005 (SPS) "The terrifying Groups of Urban Security (GUS), a Moroccan police corps, adopted a never seen before tactic: abandoning young demonstrators in the desert, some 40 Km far from their homes", reported Spanish newspaper, Canaria 7, in its Wednesday edition.
"The majority of the youngsters joined their houses walking, but they found a similar panorama of desolation: their families’ homes devastated by the same GUS", the newspaper wrote.
"According to eye witnesses, this is the first time in the history of Western Sahara that old women are beaten", the newspaper added, in reference to the attacks many old Saharawi woman were subjected to by Moroccan police, in their own houses. (SPS)
010/090/666 221929 dec 05 SPS
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SPS The "Humanité" publicises an interview with Saharawi political prisoner Brahim Noumria
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El Aaiun (Western Sahara), 22/12/2005 (SPS) French Newspaper, L’Humanité, recently publicised an interview realised by its correspondent from El Aaiun with Saharawi human rights activist and political prisoner, Brahim Noumria, who was recently condemned to 10 months imprisonment by the Moroccan colonial court during a trial that was postponed many times.
SPS publicise the complete text of the interview:
"The only perspective for the Saharawi, a just and honest referendum"
Ibrahim Noumria was condemned to 10 months imprisonment, accused of being in the origin of demonstrations organised in the territories illegally occupied by Morocco.
Special correspondence.
Ibrahim Noumria is an ex-‘disappeared' in the secrets jails of Hassan the II of Morocco. He was arrested four times previously and is a member to the Moroccan Human Rights Association, section of El Aaiun.
- Can we say the sentence the court ruled in your case as merciful?
- Ibrahim Noumria. Let it be clear, they judged us for our political opinions and our activism in favour of human rights. Morocco did not change. The pressures continue. Some prisoners died under detention. Others are tortured in the police stations. Violence against defenceless civilians are the same as those abuses committed during the 70ies. They arrest Saharawis just because they are Saharawis. It is pure racism. 10 months, a year or 10 years of imprisonment are no difference: this judgement is unfair. Since 1975 up to our days Morocco gave no concern to the international community. The occupied territories were put under total embargo. We have proofs that collective graves where peoples were buried alive do exist not far than 70 KM from Tan Tan.
Nowadays, the situation changed because the world did change, not Morocco.
- You say you were arrested because of your political engagements. What are they?
- Ibrahim Noumria. We believe that the solution to this conflict is impossible via war. Western Sahara should be respected according to the international legality. We consider that our independent country will provoke no destabilisation in the Maghreb. We are an open people, within whom there is no room to racism or Islamic fanaticism. We are a people who are opened to all languages and ideas, whatever they are. But within the Arab world, except for few cases, nobody cares for our problem.
- What do you recommend to get out of the impasse of this 30 years old conflict?
- Ibrahim Noumria. The only international perspective, for the Saharawi people, is that of a solution in which there will be the holding of a just and honest referendum, once and for all. It is no use to try to search another solution. Morocco is trying to mislead the public opinion saying that the solution can not pass through the vote of the Saharawi people. We had already been insulted, maybe too much. When Spain [former colonising power- ED] withdrew, she gave the Sahara to Morocco and Mauritania. The Baker Plan is an autonomy under Moroccan administration for 5 years, after this period the opportunity is given to the Saharawi people to vote. Polisario Front must give no more concession. (SPS)
010/090/666 221110 dec 05 SPS
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