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SPS SADR doubts about the aims behind the propagation by Rabat of information on the arrest of an individual in possession of bombs in El Aaiun 24.12.05
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Chahid El Hafed, 24/12/2005 (SPS) The Saharawi Government strongly doubts about the information publicised by the Moroccan official press agency, MAP, according to which a pretended individual was arrested on Thursday evening near the occupied capital of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), El Aaiun, "with 13 rockets «Hawn» of 81 and 60 mm calibre in his possession".
In a statement to SPS on the question, the Saharawi Minister of Information, Mr. Sid Ahmed Batal, affirmed that this information "can only be a scenario created by the Moroccan Government, which unique aim is to justify the blind and bloody repression perpetrated by Moroccan authorities against the Saharawi civilians who are, since last may, peacefully demonstrating their total rejection of occupation, asking for a free and regular self-determination referendum, the respect of human rights and the release of Saharawi political prisoners".
The Saharawi Minister recalled, however, "Polisario Front’s and Saharawi people’s attachment to the legitimate struggle to acquire their right to self-determination and independence", condemning, "the Moroccan intransigence that scorns the international legality and repress the Saharawi civil population, trying by all means to taint the distinguished reputation of the Polisario Front". (SPS)
060/090/000 240310 Dec 05 SPS
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SPS Addressing Alpha Omar Konaré, President Abdelaziz calls on the AU to condemn the Moroccan repression in Western Sahara
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Addis Abeba (African Union), 24/12/2005 (SPS) Saharawi Ambassador to Ethiopia and to the African Union, Lehbi Breika, handed over a letter from the President of the Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz, on Friday, to the President of the African Committee (AU), Alpha Omar Konaré, in which he called on the African Union to condemn the serious human rights violations committed by Morocco in the occupied territories of Western Sahara, indicated Saharawi official sources to SPS.
The Saharawi Ambassador informed Mr. Konaré on the last developments of the Moroccan repression against the Saharawi defenceless civil population. He called the AU, considered as the UN’s partner in the peace process in Western Sahara, to discuss the dangerous situation that prevails in the occupied territories with the international organisation.
The letter of the President, the same source underlines, recalled the question of the African migrants, who were expelled by the Moroccan authorities and abandoned to an evident death in the middle of the desert of the Western Sahara before they were take in by Polisario Front, who is providing them with shelter and food so far.
In this subject, Mr. Abdelaziz had called the AU, since the beginning of this tragedy, to contribute in the care for the migrants and help repatriate them to their countries n conditions that guarantee the respect of their human rights and dignity.
The text further informed the President of the AU Committee on the results of the visits undertaken by the UN’s Special Representative and the UN Secretary General’s Personal Envoy to the Saharawi refugee camps, reiterating Saharawi people’s attachment to their inalienable right to self-determination and independence through a free and regular referendum under the auspices of the UN. (SPS)
060/090/100 231030 Dec 05 SPS
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SPS A big photographic exposition on Western Sahara in the Basque Country
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Bilbao
(Basque Country), 24/12/2005 (SPS) A big exposition of photos on the Western
Sahara was organised last Monday in the Basque Country by "la Caja de ahorros"
of the province of Bilbao and Vizcaya, indicated a close source to the Saharawi
Representation to the Basque Country.
The Saharawi Representative to the Basque Country, Mamoun, held a press conference in the Chamber of deputies, where he had a meeting with the Basque Parliament’s President of the Committee for Foreign Affair, Joseph Antoni, with the presence of the spokespersons of the different political parties within the same Committee.
He also met with a group of youngsters from Vizcaya, who have recently visited the Saharawi refugee camps and who constituted the Association "Nujum" (Stars) for the support of the Saharawi people, the same source indicated.
A dinner was offered on the honour of the Saharawi people in the Golf Club in Bilbao, on Thursday evening, closing this exposition that took place for four days, according to the Saharawi representation to the Basque Country.. (SPS)
020/090/000/TRD 241330 Dec 05 SPS
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SPS Demonstration in Paris to denounce "the growth of the repression" in Western Sahara
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Paris, 24/12/2005 (SPS) Many French and Saharawi activists of the Committee for the respect of freedoms and human rights in Western Sahara (CORELSO) and the French Association of the Friends of the Saharawi Republic (A-ARASD) organised a march on Friday evening in Paris to "denounce the growth of the repression committed by t Moroccan authorities against the Saharawi population".
The demonstrators raised placards and chanted slogans. They formed a circle in front of the monument of Human rights, in the Trocadéro Place, in Paris centre, to denounce "the massive human rights violations committed by the Moroccan authorities", reported the Algerian Press Service, APS, on Friday.
They also called for the "protection of the Saharawi population by an international force, the release of the political prisoners and the immediate holding of a referendum on self-determination" for the Saharawi people.
Information sheets were distributed to the passers-by stressing that "since the end of May, the Saharawi popular uprising became increasingly important in demanding self-determination and independence" and "the Moroccan forces of occupation react with a violent repression that has already caused the death of two Saharawi demonstrators", the two associations wrote in a joint press release.
"Last Friday the 16 of December (back Friday of the Moroccan occupation), a peaceful demonstration in El Aaiun was brutally oppressed: houses were ransacked, serious wounded persons including women an children, hundreds arrestees. The UN’ mission on the ground did absolutely not intervened to protect the Saharawi citizens", the text of the sheet reads.
Coming back from occupied Saharawi territories, a sociologist, Mr. Ali Oumar yara, member of CORELSO, testified on the extent of this repression. "Moroccan police changed its repressive methods. It is no more a question of arrests and incarcerations", he said, it is a question of "taking people far from their homes and abandoning them in the desert".
"The escalade in the violence caused a very strong mobilisation of the Saharawi people", he added, indicating that "even kids participate to the peaceful demonstrations for the release of the prisoners and of the Saharawi people from the yoke of the Moroccan colonialism". (SPS)
020/090/700/TRD 241215 Dec 05 SPS
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