February 27th School (Saharawi refugee camps), October 12, 2011 (SPS)- A delegation of 40 Sahrawi human rights activists representing the Sahrawi occupied territories, south of Morocco and university arrived Tuesday in the Saharawi refugee camps to take part in the festivities commemorating the double anniversary of National Unity Day and the establishment of Gdeim Izik camp .
“This anniversary is being held this year under exceptional circumstances on the light of regional and international developments, which reiterated the adherence of the Saharawi people to the national unity and to the Polisario Front as “a sole legitimate representative of the Saharawi people,” the human rights activist and former Saharawi political prisoner, Hamadi Nasiri, told SPS.
“Our presence here is to reaffirm commitment to our people and their struggle for national liberation and to abort the Moroccan attempts aiming to divide the Sahrawi people,” added Nasiri.
The Saharawi female activist, Ghalia Joumani, noted that coincidence of the anniversary of National Unity and Gdeim Izik camp “is a strong message to the international community that there are people still determined to recover their usurped rights.”
The delegation will make a tour to the institutions of the Saharawi Republic and the Sahrawi liberated territories. (SPS)
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