Madrid,July16,2013 (SPS) - Three Spanish Organizations, CEAS-Sahara, Um Draiga and the observatory Aragon’s for Western Sahara filed a petition in the Supreme Court to deny the accusations of terrorism against the Polisario.
The Council of Ministers adopted in 2011 a recognition of Raimundo Lopez-Penalver as a victim of terrorism, died in Laiun in 1976. Implicitly, thereby Polisario Front is accused as the author of the attack.
In this sense the three organizations have filed an appeal against the granting of the award if it still binds the Polisario Front with that act.
In an interview with the representatives of the applicant associations, Sahara CEAS President, Pepe Taboada said that "Morocco is capable to do anything in order to disqualify a worthy struggle ".
In response to a question about whether there were practices that could qualify as a terrorist, Pepe Taboada said that "at no time they have made attacks, as claimed by the last secretary general of Western Sahara, Captain Rodriguez Viguri, its they ,the Moroccan agents who wanted to confront the Saharawi population with Spanish population that was still there, who performed attacks. I've lived close. "
Morocco has tried, as a colonial power, to wear down who resists its invasion, and has always tried to accuse Sahrawi as terrorists and tried to discredit their struggle for dignity. Sahrawi people are united by the liberation of their land, beyond any ideology. Everyone knows, and intelligence services like the CIA, the Sahrawis are not terrorists nor are serving Al Qaeda "says the president of CEAS Sahara.
Meanwhile the president of UM Driega, Mercedes Saavedra has condemned these allegations and expressed indignation. "Polisario is the victim of the Moroccan state terrorism and attempted genocide of the Sahrawi people," he says.
Mercedes Saavedra noted that behind these allegations and this plot is "Morocco and its supporters in the occupation of Western Sahara, the same people who have been attacked in the Occupied Territories when we traveled on fact-finding mission of Human Rights".
For Paco Palacios from Aragones Observatory for Western Sahara, there is no indication that involves the Polisario in that armed action. "In the lawsuit filed a response argued self-defense and legitimate use of force against the invasion of their territory by Morocco and aggression against its civilian population," says Palacios.SPS
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