Bir Lehlou (liberated territories), Oct 29, 2013 (SPS) - The President of the Republic and Secretary General of the Polisario Front Mr. Mohamed Abdelaziz has stressed that the situation in the occupied Western Sahara is “dangerous and deteriorating that requires the urgent international community intervention to immediately stop the oppression, blockade and restrictions.”
In a letter addressed to Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, Chairperson of the African Union Commission, and Mrs. Zainabo Sylvie Kayitesi, Chairperson of the African Commission for Human and Peoples’ Rights, SADR President noted that Moroccan occupation authorities has mobilized, in parallel with Ross visit, huge numbers of different corpses of its forces: police, army, gendarmerie, auxiliary forces, uniformed and plain-clothed agents, to besiege neighborhoods, streets and house in the occupied cities of El Aaiun and Smara.
This unprecedented deployment, said President Mohamed Abdelaziz, turned out to be a preparation for a new method of oppression and intimidation, for most of the members of those units in civilian clothes, were scattered in the locations where the Saharawi citizens hold their demonstrations, to engage in deceptive maneuvers to push towards violence, and at the same time to take Saharawi demonstrators by surprise, attack them and hurt or arrest them.
“It is unfortunate and shameful that such colonial practices are being carried out openly, with the presence of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara, and during the presence of the personal envoy of the UN Secretary General and his special representative, in a colony under immediate responsibility of the United Nations, pending a decolonization process,” the letter added.
Alerting the African Union about the seriousness of the situation in the occupied zones, the letter urgently called on Ms. Kayitesi to intervene in the appropriate way you deem necessary so as to condemn the persistence of such behavior from Moroccan.
“The Saharawi republic, a founding member of the AU, and an inflexible believer in a strong and unified Africa, trusts that the AU can and has all the legitimacy required, to speak out and defend the Saharawi civilians and can and has all the needed legitimacy to express and call the UN and the international community as a whole to order about the persistence of such violations against the citizens of a full-fledged member State in our beloved organization,” underlined Mr. Mohamed Abdelaziz.
He also demanded that the UN assume its responsibilities in making sure that the Saharawis enjoy their legal rights of fully and independently express their political will through a free and fair referendum on self-determination, in addition to their freedoms of expression, assembly, peaceful demonstration and free communication with the MINURSO, human rights organizations, reporters and independent journalists. (SPS)
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