New York, March 9, 2013 (SPS) - The well-known U.S. channel CNN made Wednesday an interview with the Moroccan ambassador to the UN, in which it criticized Moroccan regime and its illegal occupation of Western Sahara.
The interview, undergone by the U.S. journalist Christiane Amanpour, focused on the documentary “Sons of the Clouds: the Last Colony” by the Oscar-winning Spanish actor Javier Bardem, which was screened Tuesday at UN headquarters.
Amanpour told Moroccan Ambassador that his country hampered the referendum without convincing arguments, overpopulated Western Sahara with settlers and violated human rights, adding that he opposed the proposal to establish a mechanism for human rights within MINURSO powers.
She also stated that the international organizations showed that Morocco’s occupation of Western Sahara is the most brutal one in the world.
As he was trying to deny so, the journalist presented a number of compelling testimonies by people interested in the issue within the U.S. Congress and Secretary of State, in addition to Mr. James Baker, ex-U.S. ambassador to the UN Mr. John Bolton and the former U.S. Ambassador Frank Ruddy, who said that Morocco tried to teach the Moroccans Hassani dialect in the aim to fabricate the referendum.
The journalist also presented to the Moroccan ambassador a testimony by the Saharawi human rights defender Ms. Aminatou Haidar and other testimony about a young Saharawi, who was killed under torture because he refused that Western Sahara is a “Moroccan” or to say “long living the King of Morocco.” (SPS)
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