Algiers, Oct 30, 2011 (SPS) - The participants of the 2nd international conference on peoples’ right to resistance: case of the Saharawi people have reiterated their absolute support and solidarity with the struggle of the Saharawi people for freedom and independence, demanding UN speed intervention to stop the suffering of the Saharawi people, which lasted for decades.
The participants condemned the recent terrorist attack on the Saharawi refugee camps, which resulted in the abduction of 3 foreign cooperators, emphasizing that such acts “will not deter their resolve to continue supporting the Saharawis struggle.”
Ms. Inés Merenda, Spanish lawyer, confirmed that fisheries agreement between the EU and Morocco “is incompatible with the charters approved by the international legitimacy,” stressing in the same time on the need to prosecute those committing heinous crimes against civilians in the occupied territories of Western Sahara.”
The Spanish lawyer denounced the business dealings between Spain and Morocco on selling weapons, which are used against the Saharawi civilians.
In the same context, the President of British All-Party Parliamentary Group on Western Sahara, Mr. Jeremy Corbyn, called on the United Nations to recognize that Morocco’s occupation of Western Sahara “is indecent”, deploring the Moroccan state’s spending of huge amounts of money to deform the Saharawi struggle.
From her part, French lawyer and human rights activist described the brutal dismantlement of Gdeim Izik camp as “a stab to the peaceful ways of the Saharawi resistance,” emphasizing that the trails of the Saharawi prisoners “lack the most basic human rights.”
Moreover, the President of the Spanish Parliamentary Group “Peace and Freedom to the Saharawi People”, Mr. Jesus Loza, called for establishment a UN mechanism to monitor human rights in the occupied part of Western Sahara.
The Conference, held in Algiers Oct 29-30, is attended by more than 34 countries, international organizations and civil society associations from Britain, Belgium, Sweden, Switzerland, Greece, Holland, Germany, Russia, France, Austria, Italy, Spain, Algeria, Sahrawi Republic, Ghana, Tanzania, South Africa, Mauritania, Tunisia, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Senegal, United States, Argentina, Mexico, Peru, Chile, Australia, Brazil, Lebanon, Cuba and Venezuela. (SPS)
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