BIR LAHLOU (Occupied Territories) , May 18 , 2014 (SPS0 - President of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), Secretary General of the Polisario Front Mohammed Abdelaziz denounced the brutal interventions of the Moroccan forces on the defenceless Sahrawi civilians.
In a letter addressed to the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, President Abdelaziz underlined that the great number of Sahrawi victims Thursday in the occupied town of Al Ayun unveiled the brutality of the Moroccan occupation forces’ interventions against defenceless Sahrawi civilians, adding that the toll includes “about fifty injured victims at different levels of seriousness.”
On Thursday, a peaceful Sahrawi protest was organized in the city of El Aaiun, capital of occupied Western Sahara to claim a UN mechanism for protection and surveillance of human rights, the liberation of Sahrawi political detainees in Moroccan jails as well as Sahrawi people’s right to self-determination and independence, through a free referendum, said the Sahrawi President.
“Moroccan authorities mobilized a great number of army and police officers, in addition to plain-clothes troops to repress tens of defenceless Saharawis, including women, children, elderly and disabled people as well as human rights activists.” (SPS)
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