Bir Lehlou (liberated territories), Sept 17, 2012 (SPS) - The President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Frente Polisario, Mr. Mohamed Abdelaziz, has reiterated his call on the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to “immediately intervene” to put an end to the Moroccan gross violations of human rights in Western Sahara, in a letter sent Monday.
“We renew our call for your urgent intervention to put an end to these serious practices, which occur over a territory under UN responsibility and yet to enjoy the right to self-determination, and thus to implement what came in your report and decision of the UN Security Council of April 2012 on allowing the MINURSO to perform its function in firm, transparent and independent way, to organize the referendum on self-determination for the Saharawi people and protect, monitoring and report about human rights in occupied Western Sahara,” wrote the President of the Republic.
He added that Moroccan still continues to unfairly bring the Saharawi activists to military trails, pointing out that it is completing the procedures of transferring the Saharawi citizen Bakay Al-Arabi to the Rabat’s local prison of Sale,
“In doing so, Moroccan occupying authorities not only insist on persuading intimidation against the Saharawi citizens, but even it seeks to convert Gdeim Izik from an effective Saharawi popular activity to a curse it uses to chase every Saharawi announces adherence to his national legitimate rights,” stated the letter.
The Saharawi President therefore recalled that health of the Saharawi political prisoners, including that of Yahia Mohamed Hafed Iazaa, being deteriorated day by day. In addition, they are subject to different kinds of humiliation, intimidation, disregard and contempt.
“The efforts for a peaceful and just solution, being deliberately and systematically obstructed by the Moroccan party, should be accompanied by an immediate cessation of intensified looting of Saharawi natural wealth, remove the Moroccan military separation wall, release Yahya Mohamed Iazaa and all the Saharawi political prisoners, and reveal the fate of more than 651 Saharawis missing, since the military occupation of Western Sahara by Morocco on 31 October 1975,” concluded Mr. Mohamed Abdelaziz. (SPS)
090/089/TRA