SAHARA PRESS SERVICE

Geneva, 29/03/2004 (SPS) The International Movement of Youth and Students for United Nations (MIJENU) denounced, on Monday before of the UN's 60th Commission for Human Rights in Geneva, the systematic violations of human rights in Western Sahara, calling the international organisation to make
use of concrete mechanisms of action in order that the fundamental rights to freedom and security be respected in occupied territories.
 
Intervening about the «Question of the human rights and fundamental freedoms violation, wherever it occurs around the world», as the theme scheduled by the commission for the day, the Representative of the MIJEUN, M'Hamed Mohamed Cheikh, erected a gloomy report of the Moroccan occupation of the
Saharawi territory, calling the intention to «the serious violations of human rights in Western Sahara».
 
«Since its invasion and military occupation of Western Sahara in 1975, Moroccan Kingdom did manage no efforts to exterminate the Saharawi population during their exodus, what incontestably constitute one of the most serious human rights violation ever registered», stressed the organisation.

The organisation considered that the wall of defence -more known as «wall of shame» and which has deepened the division of the territory and the separation of the families during all these past years- « is there to remind us of this sad and hard reality».
 
It noted that Morocco «still is persisting in its repressive policy against the civil population, and is keeping on with its campaigns of libelling and discrediting human rights activists in Western Sahara», underlining
that the report of American State Department on human rights violations in Morocco and in Western Sahara, published in the 25trh February 2004, «is very clear in this subject».
 
The MIJEUN, moreover, considered that the dissolution of Sahara's Section of the Forum Truth and Justice, the sentencing of persons suspected of struggling for the self-determination of their country, the Moroccan authorities refusal of allowing 13 members of Saharawi disappeared families to participate to
the 60th session of the Commission for human rights, same thing done during the preceding session «reveals a lot about Moroccan persistence in violating human rights in Saharawi occupied territories».
 
To the organisation, «the international pressures on Morocco are the only way to promote the respect of human rights in Western Sahara».
 
«It is then urgent that the international community increase its efforts by making use of concrete mechanisms of action in order that the fundamental rights to freedom and security, known to everybody and conforming to all relevant conventions, be also respected in occupied territories», concluded
the representative of the MINJENU. (SPS)

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The Danish Peace Movement calls to the respect of Saharawis' right to self-determination

Aalborg (Denmark), 29/03/2004 (SPS) The Danish Peace Movement recently called, during a platform designed for on going conflicts and organised in Aalborg (North of Denmark), for the respect of Saharawis legitimate right to self-determination and independence, we learned from a close source to Saharawi representative in Denmark.

The political and humanitarian aspects of Western Sahara's conflict, particularly the latest developments related to the UN endeavours to reach a peaceful, just and democratic solution to the conflict conforming to international legality, were developed in a stand of this platform, it was indicated.
 
The participants expressed, expressed their support to the legitimate right of the Saharawi people to self-determination and independence, while denouncing ''Morocco's illegal occupation'' of the Saharawi territory, condemning the Moroccan ''wall of shame'' that was described as a dreadful crime against
humanity. (SPS)
 
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