Bir Lahlou ( Liberated Territories ) , 30 October 2013 ( SPS) - Mr. Mohamed Abdelaziz, President of the Republic and Secretary- General of the Frente POLISARIO has urged the European Union and its member states to intensify efforts to protect the fundamental rights of the Saharawi people and to work to end the Moroccan illegal occupation of Western Sahara, in a letter sent to Ms. Catherine Ashton, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice President of the European Commission.
The President of the Republic reaffirmed that ‘through the report of the Special Rapporteur of the European Parliament for Human Rights in Sahel Region and Western Sahara, Mr. Charles Tannock, which was ratified by the European Parliament on October 22, and which addresses deeply the serious situation of human rights in Western Sahara, " the European Parliament asks the international community in particular the European Union to pay more attention to this unacceptable situation."
the President of the Republic also called on the European Union to intervene " urgently" to immediately end the acts of repression and raiding houses and shops and blockade, release all Saharawi political prisoners in Moroccan prisons, reveal the fate of missing Sahrawi, remove the wall of the Moroccan occupation and stop the Moroccan looting of Sahrawi natural resources .
It should be recalled that Saharawi citizens in El Aaiun and Smara occupied cities took to the streets in peaceful demonstrations demanding elementary freedoms, the release of political prisoners and the organization of a referendum of self-determination for the Saharawi people, during the recent of the Personal Envoy of the UN Secretary General for Western Sahara Mr. Christopher Ross to the occupied territories of Western sahara.
But Moroccan occupation authorities mobilized huge numbers of different formations of its forces, including the police, the army, the gendarmerie, the rapid intervention forces and the auxiliary forces, uniformed and plain-clothed, to besiege neighborhoods, streets and houses, and to attack unarmed civilians with blind brutality, using sticks and batons, stones, kicking and beating, tear gas and hunting them with cars, water cannons and bladed weapons, leaving a large number of casualties. (SPS)
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