Algiers, December29. 2011 (SPS) Members of a delegation of activists of human rights from the occupied territories of Western Sahara reaffirmed, in testimony Wednesday in Algiers, their "determination" to continue the "struggle" and "resistance" until achieve the Saharawi people’s right to self-determination .
These militants spoke on the occasion of a demonstration of solidarity with the Saharawi people, held at the headquarters of the Algerian National Committee of Solidarity with the Saharawi people (CNASPS).
The demonstration was attended by about fifty Sahrawi human rights activists who took part in last Congress of the Polisario Front (15-22 December 2011) as well as representatives of Algerian civil society.
In their testimony, activists, mostly of former political prisoners were "welcomed" the success of the last Congress of the Polisario Front and renewed their "commitment" to continue the fight against the colonizers upon their return to the territories.
This is the case of Djamila Dember, sister of the young Said Damber, (26) murdered by Moroccan forces in December 2010 and whose body is still kept in refrigerator in the hospital of Laayoune.
"I will continue fighting despite the many attempts by the Moroccan authorities to buy silence of my family by applying it blackmail against the handing over of the body of my brother," she testified with tears in her eyes.
My family and I continue to suffer and to require a medical examiner to perform an autopsy on the body of my brother in order to determine the number of balls he received and the circumstances of his murder, "she added.
Her friend, the young ,Soltana Khaya, lost her right eye, due the torture by Moroccan occupation forces during a demonstration in Marrakech where she was a student.
"The Moroccan forces attempted to tear the second eye. I'm not afraid of blindness and I am determined to return to the occupied territories where I will fight till the death, she insisted.
"I am willing to sacrifice my life for the independence of Western Sahara "despite the media blockage imposed by the Moroccan authorities."
One of the oldest Sahrawi political prisoners, Dadech Mohamed, said that the last Congress of the Polisario Front is a message to remind the international community that Western Sahara remains the last colonized country in Africa.
"The conference was conducted in transparency and democracy. It has brought together all Sahrawis wherever they are since they had traveled from all countries to attend," he said, adding that the question of Western Sahara remains "sacred."
In the same direction, the militant Oum El Mouminine Souyeh, argued that the militants will continue to "fight" and to "resist" "upon their return to the occupied territories.
Speaking after this testimony, the president of CNASPS, Mahrez Lamari, called on the United Nations to "take responsibility" and to enforce its own resolutions on decolonization, announcing that a delegation of the African Parliament will shortly visit the occupied territories of Western Sahara to investigate the situation of human rights.(SPS)
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