Chahid Al Hafed (refugee camps), April 17, 2014 (SPS) - President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Polisario Front Mr. Mohamed Abdelaziz has deplored the “violent attack” carried out Tuesday evening by Moroccan repression forces against Saharawi citizens in the occupied city of El Aaiun, asking the UN to take “urgent steps” to protect the Saharawi people.
In a letter addressed Tuesday to the UN Secretary General, a copy of which obtained by SPS, President Mohamed Abdelaziz underlined the need for “urgent steps” by the United Nation to protect innocent Saharawis from Moroccan oppression, as to immediately release all Saharawi political inmates, incarcerated in Moroccan prisons.
“Hundreds of Saharawi citizens went on Tuesday to streets of the occupied city of El Aaiun in peaceful demonstrations calling for the right of the Saharawi people to self-determination and independence, protection of human rights and natural resources, as well as the release of Saharawi political detainees, incarcerated in Moroccan prisons,” wrote President Mohamed Abdelaziz, in his letter to Ban Ki-moon.
The demonstrators, said the President, were surprised by a violent and brutal intervention of a horde of Moroccan forces, including police, army and auxiliary forces, both in uniform and in plain clothes.
The letter went on saying that Moroccan occupying forces used helicopters to control the movements of its troops deployed in the occupied city of El Aaiun, as it did during its military attack on Gdeim Izik protest camp on 8 November 2010, a thing reflects that such move was “pre-prepared.”
Strongly condemning this new crime against sons of the Saharawi people, Polisario Front SG appealed to the UN to bear its responsibilities, by establishing a UN mechanism to protect, monitor and report about Morocco’s human rights violations in Western Sahara. (SPS)
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