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SPS Saharawi Prime Minster congratulates his Algerian counterpart 30.05.05
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Bir Lehlu, 29/05/2006 (SPS) the Saharawi Prime Minister, Abdelkader Taleb Oumar, addressed a letter of congratulations to his Algerian counterpart, Abdelaziz Belkhadem, on the occasion of the later designation in the Head of the Algerian Government.
Here is the complete text of the letter, translated from French by SPS:
"Excellency, Head of the Algerian Government and dear brother,
With great pleasure I express you on behalf of the Saharawi people and Government, our best wishes and warm congratulations on the occasion of your designation on the head of the Algerian Government, wishing you health and happiness and to the Algerian people more progress and prosperity.
Excellency, Head of the Algerian Government and dear brother,
The relations of friendship and good neighbourhood that go far back in the history of the two brother peoples, Algerian and Saharawi, is a source of constant interest and of real will to make them even stronger and firm.
Finally, we wish the Algerian people more progress in the path of the construction of the institutions of the new democratic Algeria, under the leadership of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and more success for yourself in your noble duty for the Algerian State, for the Maghreb Arab and the Islamic Nation". (SPS)
020/090/100/TRD 291830 May 06 SPS
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SPS The AU "concerned" by the drastic reduction of humanitarian aid to the Saharawi refugeesr
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Ouagadougou, 30/05/2006 (SPS) The African Union’s Ministerial conference on refugees, repatriated and transferred persons (AU), which opened its work on Monday in Ouagadougou at the level of experts, expressed its concern about the drastic reduction of the humanitarian aid to the Saharawi refugees, affirmed Mrs. Julia Dolly Joiner, AU Commissioner for Political Affairs.
"The African Union is concerned by the situation of the Saharawi refugees in Algeria, who transcend more than 165.000 refugees", Mrs. Joiner underlined during her opening speech of the conference, which is attended by Ambassador. Habib Boukhreis, the Representative of the Saharawi Republic.
"Despite the creation of the Saharawi State, these refugees continue to live in deplorable conditions", she deplored hoping that "one day they will have the occasion to voluntarily return home in the completely independent Saharawi Republic".
Intervening during the debate, Mr. Boukhreis underlined "the unjust character of the reduction of the number of Saharawi refugees the UNHCR recognised as vulnerable", restricting the number from 165.000 to 90.000 persons only.
"This initiative will make the Saharawi people even more vulnerable, the Saharawi diplomat underlined, calling on the HCR to "reconsider its position in the briefest delays". (SPS)
010/090/120/TRD 301135 May 06 SPS
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SPS A French association interpellate the UN on the human rights violations in the Western Sahara
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Paris, 30/05/2006 (SPS) The French Association of Friendship and Solidarity with the Peoples of Africa (AFASPA) called on the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mrs. Louise Arbour, to denounce "the human rights violations perpetrated by the Moroccan State in the Western Sahara (arbitrary detentions, tortures, forced disappearance...)" and to impose the "respect of the international law in this region".
"Concerned about the set of violent repression to which peaceful Saharawi demonstrators are subjected" and about "an even more serious deterioration" that may be generated by "the confrontations between the Saharawi populations and the Moroccan settlers" alimented by "police provocation", AFASPA called on Mrs. Arbour to intervene vis-à-vis the Moroccan authorities to put an end to this dramatic situation. (SPS)
010/090/666/TRD 301155 May 06 SPS
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SPS Six persons arrested in the occupied cities of the Western Sahara and in the Southern Moroccan cities
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Dajla (occupied territories), 30/05/2006 (SPS) The Moroccan forces of occupation arrested three Saharawi youths, on Monday evening in Dajla, during a sit-in of solidarity with the Saharawi citizen, Saiidi Salek, who was burned with benzene by the Moroccan authorities in a police station in the occupied capital of the Western Sahara, El Aaiun, concordant sources indicated.
The arrested young men are: Mohamed Ali Mohamed, Cheikh Mani, El Machdhoufi Mohamed Ali and Ali Mohamed Mouhimad (18 years old). The latter’s family house was ransacked by the Moroccan forces of repression, who threatened the hole family.
In the occupied city, Smara, two children, Zeini Ali Lansar and Ben Charkaoui Mohamed, were arrested by the Moroccan police for having participated in a demonstration organised by Saharawi youth to advocate the elf-determination of the Saharawi people and ask for the "immediate withdrawal" of the Moroccan occupation from the Western Sahara.
The two victims, respectively 6 years and 8 years old, were led by the Moroccan police to a police station in the city where they were submitted "to all forms of physical and moral torture", according to their families.
The families of the Saharawi victims, supported by dozens Saharawi citizens, organised a sit-in in front of the police station where the two kids are detained, calling for their immediate release.
The Moroccan forces of occupation finally released the two kids to "avoid the explosion of the situation", the same sources indicated.
In the occupied city of Bojador, five Saharawi students were « abusively » dismissed from school. The Moroccan authorities drove them outside the city and warned them not to try to get in again, the same source added.
The students are: Tarfaoui Abdelftah, Jamaii Abderrahmane, El Kouthar El Kentaoui, Ngueiguiz Ahmed and Toumana el Fatr.
On another hand, a Saharawi citizen, Dedi Abdallahi, was arrested last Sunday in Tantan city (South of Morocco) after demonstrations organised Saturday and Sunday to reject the Moroccan occupation of the Western Sahara and to reaffirm that "the Polisario Front is the only legitimate representative of the Saharawi people". (SPS)
020/090/110/TRD 301405 May 06 SPS
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