Copenhagen (Denmark), February 9, 2015 (SPS) - Africa Contact has urged Crans Montana Forum not to hold its forum in the occupied Dakhla, Western Sahara.
“Africa Contact urges Crans Montana Forum to move its forum in March from Africa’s last colony, Moroccan occupied Western Sahara,” indicated an article published Wednesday on its official website, by Peter Kenworthy.
The article recalled that “Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and other human rights organisations often report on illegal Morrocan expropriation of Western Saharan resources, discrimination of the indigenous Saharawis, and brutal torture of those who advocate and fight for independence from Morocco”.
“In Amnesty International’s new Stop Torture campaign, Morocco is classed as one of the world’s five worst torturing nations.”
It also recalled that in a declaration published last week, the African Union condemned Crans Montana Forum’s decision to hold its annual forum in Dakhla as being “a grave violation of the international law” and “in contradiction with the efforts made by the international community to resolve the conflict in Westerns Sahara”. (SPS)
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