Pretoria, January 24, 2017 (SPS) - the South African movement Solidarity For Sahrawi has called the Secretary General of the United Nations Organization - (UNSG), Mr. Antonio Guterres to exercise power for the immediate release of the Sahrawi political prisoners from Moroccan jails and for helping thousands of Sahrawi citizens in refugee camps to gain their independence in letter sent issued Monday to UNSG.
“Your Excellency, With the most honor and respectful of your new position and office as the Secretary General of the United Nations Organization - (UNSG), we hereby send this letter in solidarity with the people of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) popularly called the Western Sahara), both in the Refugee Camps of Tindouf, and in the occupied territory of Western Sahara under the brutal aggression, oppression, repression and arrogance of the government of the Kingdom of Morocco.” Said the letter of the South African organization
The said organization went on saying that nothing is spoken of the Gdeim Izik detainees who are being tortured in Moroccan prisons just because they decided to exercise some basic human rights such as the rights to self-determination and independence.
The South African Solidarity with Sahrawi recalled that there was an unfortunate incidence of mass injustice perpetrated against the Sahrawi local protest group of Gdeim Izik by the Moroccan authorities on the 9th of October over 8th of November 2010.
Gdeim lzik was a peaceful protest camp in the occupied territory of Western Sahara, established on the 9th of October 2010.
The protests of Gdeim Izik were initially very peaceful as said earlier, until the protests were later marked by clashes between Sahrawi civilians and Moroccan security forces which led to the dead of a 14-year-old Nayem Elgarhi whom no one had spoken about and many injuries among the Sahrawi indigenes.
The aftermaths of the protest were marked by brutality, unlawful imprisonments of Sahrawi peaceful protesters, and the dismantlement of the camps in November 8th, 2010.
Africa Solidarity for Sahrawi has also reminded his excellency Guterres, that the right to self-determination of peoples including the people of Western Sahara (the Sahrawi) is recognized in many other international and regional instruments, including; The Declaration of Principles of International Law Concerning Friendly Relations and Co-operation Among States adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1970, The Helsinki Final Act adopted by the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE) in 1975, The African Charter of Human and Peoples' Rights of 1981, The CSCE Charter of Paris for a New Europe adopted in 1990, The Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action of 1993 and 'The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. SPS
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