Algiers, June 16, 2011 (SPS) - The Task Force of the European Coordination for Solidarity with the People of Western Sahara (EUCOCO) holds, Thursday in Algiers, a meeting marking the 41st anniversary of the popular uprising of June 17, 1970 in Zemla district, El Aaiun, capital of Western Sahara.
The meeting will bring together the stakeholders of the international movement of solidarity with the Saharawi people's resistance in the occupied territories, human rights in Western Sahara and Saharawi people's right to self-determination.
The Uprising of Zemla was led by Shaheed Mohamed Sidi Brahim Bassiri, kidnapped and murdered the same day by the Spanish colonial authorities.
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