Algiers, Dec 15, 2014, (SPS)- The participants in the fifth conference of Algiers on “The Right of People’s to Resistance: The Case of Sahrawi People,”called on to make 2015 the year of Saharawi people’s independence.
In thiscontext, the president of the African associations activating under the banner of the African Union said "we have to make of the new year 2015 the year of the independence of Western Sahara," as determined by the United Nations regulations relating to decolonization, demanding to establish African Association for Solidarity with Sahrawi human rights activists.
Thehead of South African Association for Solidarity with the Saharawi People Mr. Keita Maika condemned"arbitrary arrests" subjected by Moroccan authorities against international human rights activists in the Western Sahara issue, calling on to spend more efforts to achieve the "dream" of African leader Nelson Mandela, which is the decolonization of the entire African continent.
The President of Tunisian Committee for Solidarity with the Saharawi people Mohammed Diaa, has stressed that the issue of Western Sahara "is not a border conflict between Morocco and Algeria or Morocco and Mauritania, but issue decolonization and legal issue waiting the embodiment of international legitimacy by the United Nations."
The participants at the conference stressed, that human rights violations committed by Morocco in occupied Western Sahara "enhance" International solidarity with Saharawi issue.
In the same context, the Saharawi former detainee Laulad Sheikh, said that Moroccan occupation authorities is exercising all kinds of torture against Saharawis, which calls on for “urgent” international action to stop these violations. (SPS)
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