POLISARIO Front strongly condemns Morocco’s violations of human rights in occupied Western Sahara | Sahara Press Service

Sun, 08/05/2012 - 7:13pm   Tags:

• Western Sahara

Shaheed Al Hafed (refugee camps), August 5, 2012 (SPS) - Office of the POLISARIO National Secretariat strongly condemned Sunday the acts of repression and oppression as well as gross violations of human rights committed by Moroccan state on the defenseless Saharawi civilians, including the brutal attack on a demonstration organized last Thursday in the occupied city of Dakhla by a group of Saharawis certified, in a statement concluded a meeting chaired by the President Mohamed Abdelaziz.

The statement described the political, social and economic conditions as poor, in light of raping the legitimate rights and violating the fundamental freedoms of the Saharawi people by Moroccan occupation.

“Morocco’s colonial policies in the Saharawi occupied territories only emphasize the need to accelerate the implementation of recommendations of the Secretary General of the United Nations and Security Council, in enabling the MUNIRSO Mission to play its full role as an international mission assigned mainly with the organization of a self-determination referendum to decide fate of the Saharawi people, but also the need to immediately drew its attention to the responsibility for the protection, monitoring and report about human rights in Western Sahara,” confirmed the Office.

It appealed in this asked the international community to the prompt intervention to release Yahia Mohamed Hafed Aizaa and all the Saharawi political prisoners, including the group of Gdeim Izik and Dakhla facing military trail, unveil the whereabouts of more than 651 Saharawi missings, halt Moroccan operations of looting of Saharawi natural resources, remove the separated Moroccan military wall, “a destruction machine that continues to kill human beings and animals as to damage the environment through its enormous arsenal that include millions of mines, including those internationally banned anti-personnel.”

The Office welcomed the expected visit of a Spanish delegation of aid workers, sympathizers and friends to the Saharawi refugee camps, saying that visit bears “meanings of sympathy, friendship and love towards our people and their just cause and inalienable right to self-determination and independence.”

The statement warned of the steady relationship between the groups of the terrorist and smuggling groups as well as organized crime and the spread of Moroccan drug in the region, adding it constitutes “an imminent danger required an international tough position.

After the Saharawi party expressed concern, like all countries of the region and the world, about the security risks occurring in Mali and its impacts on the region, renewing POLISARIO’s condemnation to terrorism, stressing that the way to meet the terrorist threats inevitably passes through the close cooperation and tight coordination between the concerned parties with the fight of this dangerous phenomenon.”

The Office also stopped at the preparations for honoring the excellent students this year in the field of education, saluting the positive results achieved, especially in the Baccalaureate exam, and praising the large number of Saharawi graduates in various specializations. (SPS)

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