SAHARA PRESS SERVICE

Dajla (Villa Cisneros- occupied territories), 27/06/205 (SPS) More than sixteen Saharawi citizens were injured during confrontations that opposed Saharawi demonstrators Monday with Moroccan forces of repression, while a persona t least was arrested and two houses broken by police.
 
Organising demonstrations to claim for their right to self-demonstration and to independence as well as to claim for the respect of human rights in Western Sahara, the demonstrators faced the GUS, the anti-riot police force, the gendarmerie and the auxiliary forces, which charged on crowd with teargas grenades, bludgeons and stones.

In an access of abuse doubled by chauvinism, Moroccan forces broke into the house of Mr. Oulad Chikh Mahjoub Ben Beida, father of a disappeared during the first years of the Moroccan invasion of the territory in 1975, Oulad Chikh Abdel Jelil, father of the disappeared, Oulad Chikh Abdel Jelil, and father of human rights activist, Oulad Chikh Mohamed Fadel. The old man was brutalised and taken to an unknown destination.

The victim was also ill-treated by the Moroccan police last June the 13th, knowing that the authorities are maintaining his family under close surveillance night and day intimidating them and threatening them every now and then. He also had another son who started chanting slogans in favour of the independence of Western Sahara from the roof of their house, it should be recalled.

Moroccan forces also broke into the house of the President of the Committee against Torture in Dajla, Mohamed El Mami Amar Salem, to get him out of his house, to torture and trail him in the street until losing consciousness. They abandoned him in the middle of the street after having stolen his cell phones camera.
 
In his last latter to the European Union the President of the Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz, said that such a situation will probably "languish and unfortunately worsen". This demonstrations he said, apart from "frustration and deception" they symbolise in front of "the passiveness of the international community and the abdication of the UN" are in the first place the expression "of a clear rejection of three decades of occupation and Moroccan colonial fait accompli". (SPS)

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