Dakhla (refugee camps), December 18, 2015 (SPS) – Three new s graves have been recently discovered in the Sahrawi territories by Spanish experts, said Thursday in Dakhla (Sahrawi refugee camps), President of the Association of Sahrawi prisoners and missing families (AFRAPREDESA), Omar Abdeslam.
The president of the AFRAPREDESA, who was speaking to journalists, on the sidelines of the 14th Polisario Front Congress, stressed that the "process of bones exhumation is at the first stage," adding that "he could not give further details about the places of the three mass graves," which unveil the crimes against humanity committed by the Moroccan occupier.
"We will give further information on these graves, once the work on the ground is completed," he added.
However, he affirmed that "until now, ten people were identified in the first grave," noting that "the biggest grave include bones of 60 Sahrawi victims buried alive."
Abdeslam, who recalled that several mass graves have been discovered in Western Sahara in past years, wished that UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will revive the issue of human rights protection and monitoring in the Sahrawi occupied territories.
Ban Ki-moon is expected to pay a visit to the region early 2016.
This visit, which will be an opportunity "to bring the Moroccan occupier to assume its responsibilities in the crimes of State committed in Western Sahara," concluded Abdeslam.
Macabre finding after that of Fedret Lakouiaâ
This new discovery, proof of the crimes against humanity committed by the Moroccan occupation against the Sahrawi people, adds to the mass grave discovered in Fedret Lakouiaâ, in the freed region of Amhiriz, in Western Sahara.
In November 2013, human remains from the mass grave were handed over by the Sahrawi authorities in the presence of relatives of the killed, representatives of MINURSO and international personalities.
The working, which contributed to the identification of the human remains through DNA testing, conducted in Spanish university laboratories, also attended the handing over ceremony, which took place on the crime scene.
The discovery of this first grave "reveals a part of the war crime committed by the Moroccan regime against the Sahrawi people since its occupation of Western Sahara on 31 October 1975."
The testimonies and the presence of international organizations and players on the scene are a "formal denial of theses of Morocco" contained in its reports are "contrary" to reality.
Search of tens of Sahrawi remains buried in mass graves throughout the region, notably in the occupied territories in southern Morocco continues.
The fate of more than 500 missing and 151 prisoners of war remains unknown. (SPS)
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