Smara (occupied territories), Oct 21, 2013 (SPS) - Scores of Saharawis were injured during a peaceful demonstration on Saturday in the occupied city of Smara to claim the right of Sahrawi people to self-determination, coinciding with Ross visit to the territory.
During this demonstration, which coincides with the visit the United Nations Secretary General's Special Envoy for Western Sahara, Christopher Ross, Saharawi human rights activists called on "the international community to assume its legal and moral responsibility to end the suffering of Sahrawi people and the Moroccan repression forces."
Moroccan occupation authorities and repression forces have "brutally cracked down on Sahrawi citizens who were chanting slogans claiming the right of Saharawi people to self-determination and holding flags of Polisario Front, leaving scores injured among the peaceful protesters.
Western Sahara, considered by the UN as a non-autonomous territory since 1964, is the last colony in Africa occupied by Morocco since 1975. (SPS)
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