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OCCUPIED TERRITORIES/INTIFADA
61 persons injured in Sunday’s demonstrations in El Aaiun, Agadir and Marrakech
31.05.05



El Aaiun (occupied territories), 31/05/2005 (SPS) More than 61 persons injured during Saharawis demonstrations, on Sunday in El Aaiun, Agadir and Marrakech, besides 31 detained student in these latter Moroccan cities, reported concordant sources.

In El Aaiun, 36 injured persons were named. They refuse to go to hospital to get the medical care, fearing from being arrested by the police, it was indicated.
 
In Agadir, 26 students were injured and 17 arrested during two confrontations that took place last Sunday with the police in the university "Ibn Zouhr", while in Marrakech 14 were arrested, the same sources added.

Following SPS counting, the number of Saharawi injured victims, from the beginning of the Intifada, last May he 23rd, reached more than 75 persons, while 45 were arrested, among which 14 students, who were released Sunday after two day spent under torture in Moroccan secret police stations. (SPS)
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OCCUPIED TERRITORIES/INTIFADA/FRANCE
A French organisation calls for the dispatch of an international a committee for investigation to Western Sahara



Bagnolet (France), 31/05/2005 (SPS) The French Association of Solidarity with the African Countries (AFASPA) asked for the dispatch to Western Sahara of an international committee for investigation, to get information on the repression and human rights violations committed by Morocco in this country it colonise since 1975 putting it under complete siege.

"AFASPA asks the UN to send to the non-self-governing territory an international committee of investigation to guarantee the freedom of expression as put in the Peace Plan of 1991, but also, it should be recalled in all the founding texts of the international organisation", wrote a press release publicised by the association on Monday.

Recalling that Morocco did not respect its international engagements by officially denying Saharawi people’s right to self-determination, AFASPA regretted that Rabat is "backed, in its attitude, by the French position within the UN Security Council and in the different international forums". The association also recalled the "complicity of the French authorities, which proves to be the indefectible allies of a repressive and colonial regime that defies the international laws and proves to be an outlaw regime.”

It alerted the French Medias on "the serious situation" in Western Sahara, "a victim to an unacceptable colonial hold-up", calling them to inform the French public opinion on the real nature of this "conflict of decolonisation" and to "stop presenting it as a Moroccan-Algerian one". "It is a serious and unjust negation of the Saharawi people and of its resistance for 30 years to establish a right recognised by the UN as inalienable", the text said.

Addressing the UN, AFASPA criticised its "complete passivity in front of the repression against a population it is supposed to be protecting", calling to the establishment of a schedule "the steps towards the referendum on self-determination." (SPS)

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OCCUPIED TERRITORIES/INTIFADA/DEMONSTRATION
More than 1000 demonstrator express in Dajla their rejection of the Moroccan occupation



Dakhla (occupied territories), 31/05/2005 (SPS) Saharawi citizens in Dajla demonstrated this afternoon in the streets of the city to express their rejection of the Moroccan colonialism and its military occupation of their country.

Estimated to 1500 persons, the demonstrators chanted slogans claiming for the independence of their country, the respect of human rights and the organisation of a referendum on self-determination for the Saharawi people.

"With our blood we will liberate Western Sahara", "independence through peaceful ways or through the struggle", "Long life to Polisario Front", "Long life to President Mohamed Abdelaziz", "No other alternative to self-determination", are some of the slogans chanted by the demonstrators in a live report broadcasted by the Saharawi National Radio.

The Moroccan forces of intervention violently dispersed the demonstrators, confiscating the placards of the demonstrators. The city was after that put under the state of siege.

In Smara, after the demonstrations of Monday, the city remained under permanent siege while the forces of police, gendarmes and GUS patrol in the streets to intimidate the population, it was indicated.

On another hand, tens of Saharawi students were chased from the University of Agadir while others were not allowed to take their exams by their teachers. (SPS)

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SADR/ITALY/MOROCCO
Italian Senate calls the European Union to work for the enforcement of the Baker Plan in Western Sahara



Roma, 31/05/2005 (SPS) Italian Senate calls the European Union (EU) to work for the enforcement of the Baker Plan in Western Sahara. This peace plan recommends the organisation of a referendum on self-determination for the Saharawi people.

In a resolution adopted on Tuesday by the Senate, the Italian Parliament members "exhort the Government to undertake, near international bodies especially the UN, the EU and the European Council, all the necessary initiatives aiming at establishing a common position towards the Moroccan Government and Polisario Front for the enforcement of the Baker Plan presented by the UN".

Recalling the testimony of Mr. Ali Salem Tamek, President of the Committee of support to Saharawi human rights activists in Western Sahara, last May 18, before of the Italian Senate’s Committees for human rights and for Foreign Affairs, the resolution estimated that "Moroccan Government still have a lot to achieve" regarding human rights. (SPS)

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OCCUPIED TERRITORIES/REPRESSION/SOLIDARITY
Demonstration in Valencia in front of Moroccan Consulate to denounce repression against Saharawis in occupied territories




Valencia, 31/05/2005 (SPS) More than 500 persons, according to the estimations of the police, participated Monday to demonstrations in front of Moroccan consulate in Valencia to denounce human rights violations in Western Sahara and against the fierce repression against Saharawi population in occupied territories since the beginning of the Intifada, which Started last Monday the 23rd of May.

Organised by the Associations of solidarity with the Saharawi people, this initiative that followed similar initiative that took place in Barcelona, Seville, Aljeziras and Almeria, comes to express the solidarity of Spanish social society with the struggle of the Saharawi people for its national liberation.

"We support the popular uprising of the Saharawi population against Moroccan occupation", "30 years are enough", "let’s stop Moroccan repression in the occupied Sahara", "Long life to Saharawi people struggle", are slogans chanted during this popular demonstration to which Trade Unions’ representatives, local officials and Saharawis in Valencia participated.

Other similar demonstrations are planed for this week in Madrid the 1st June and in Burgos and A Corunna in June the 4th, announced the organisers. (SPS)

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