Marrokaanse schendingen mensenrechten
FJederman - 21.07.2005 23:11
De onderdrukking en bezetting van de Westelijke Sahara door Marokko gaat door. De VN moet ingrijpen!
De President van de Republiek van de Westelijke Sahara, Mohamed Abdelaziz, heeft een dringende oproep gedaan aan de Secretaris Generaal van de VN, Kofi Annan, om in te grijpen bij de voortdurende en acute schendingen van de mensenrechten van de Saharawi burgerbevolking door Marokko dat de Westelijke Sahara bezet.
Inmiddels hebben solidariteitsgroepen in Canada, Engeland, Frankrijk en Spanje solidariteitsacties aangekondigd.
De European Intergroup for the Western Sahara in Brussel en de winnaar van de Noorse RAFTO Mensenrechtenprijs 2002, Sidi Mohamed Daddech, doen een oproep aan de Marokkaanse regering om Ali Salem Tamek en Aminetou Haidar en alle andere Saharawi gewetensgevangenen die zijn opgepakt sinds het begin van de Onafhankelijkheids Intifada in mei onmiddellijk vrij te laten.
Hier is de complete engelstalige tekst van de brief:
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Bir Lehlou 20 July 2005
H.E. Mr. Kofi Annan,
Secretary-General of the United Nations,
New York
His Excellency,
For the second time and within 48 hours I need to address to you this letter in view of the dangerous practices that the Moroccan occupying authorities have been carrying out, in a persistent and intensified manner, against the Saharawi citizens and human rights activists in the Saharawi occupied territories and Moroccan cities where they reside.
As I drew the attention, in my letter dated 19 July 2005, to the gravity of the Moroccan repressive escalation and called for the need to intervene to ensure the protection of human rights in Western Sahara, the Moroccan authorities are increasingly becoming intransigent as they engage in new gross violations of Saharawi human rights that have targeted a group of human rights activists.
At 6 o'clock this morning, 20 July 2005, 16 agents of Moroccan intelligence service broke into the house of the human rights activist, Mohamed Moutauakel, in Casa Blanca in Morocco while he was sleeping, where he was arrested along with the human rights activist, Mohamed Fadel Ghaudi.
Mohamed Moutawakel is a former prisoner of conscience in 1992; he was born in 1966; he is a member of the executive board of the Forum for Truth and Justice; he works as a secretary-general of the locality "Ben-amsik, Sidi Uzman" in Casa Blanca, after he had been deported against his will from the city of Assa; he is married and has three children.
Mohamed Fadel Ghaudi is a former Saharawi disappeared in 1979; he is a member of the Forum for Truth and Justice; he was sacked from his work in one of the branches of "Tourist and Estate Bank" in Agadir in 2000; he is married and has three children.
At ten o'clock this morning, another group of Moroccan secret service broke into the house of the human rights activist, Fatama Aaish, in el Aaiún, the Saharawi occupied city, where they arrested the human rights
activists, Hussein Aliedri, Brahim Numeria and El-Arabi Masoud.
Hussein Aliedri is a human rights activist who was deported. He was with the human rights activist, Aminatou Haidar, when she was arrested, where he was subjected, along with other human rights activists, to beating and torture of which consequences he is still suffering.
Brahim Numeria is a former disappeared and an inmate of the Moroccan secret detention centre, Ghalat Maguna. He was repeatedly intimated and persecuted on account of his activism for human rights.
El-Arabi Masoud, is a former prisoner of conscience in 1999. Being an advocate for human rights in Western Sahara, he has been repeatedly persecuted and interrogated by the police.
This wave of kidnapping and arrests came after the Moroccan authorities had suppressed ruthlessly peaceful demonstrations calling for the release of Saharawi prisoners of conscience and respect for fundamental liberties and the principle of self-determination, which took place in El Aaiún, Smara and Assa on 19 July 2005, and which have resulted in many casualties among the Saharawi demonstrators.
The Moroccan authorities are still engaged in reinforcing its repressive apparatus by a massive military and security deployment throughout the Saharawi occupied territories, tightening their hold on the Saharawi citizens and denying access to the territory by independent observers.
His Excellency,
These accelerated events and the new Moroccan repressive practices that may ensue from them, and the dangerous consequences to which they may lead including perpetrating atrocious massacres against the innocent and defenceless Saharawi citizens, make me address you personally, and through you the United Nations, the General Assembly, the Security Council and the International Community at large, to intervene immediately and urgently to protect the Saharawi citizens and human rights activists against the oppression, persecution and injustice being inflicted on
them by the Moroccan authorities.
In this context, we call upon you to intervene urgently in order to ensure the immediate and unconditional release of the human rights activists and prisoners of conscience, Aminatou Haidar, Ali Salem Tamek, Mohamed Moutawakek, Mohamed Fadel Ghaudi, Hussein Aliedri, Brahim Numeria and El-Arabi Masoud, and all Saharawi prisoners of conscience.
We further call upon your honourable organisation, the responsible for the territory, to play an active and immediate role, through MINURSO, in order to ensure the respect for fundamental liberties and human rights and to provide, on urgent basis, the necessary mechanisms for the completion of the decolonisation process of Western Sahara by enabling the Saharawi people, without delay, to exercise their inalienable right to self-determination by means of a free, fair and just referendum in accordance with international resolutions and in the interest of security, peace and stability in the region.
Awaiting your immediate intervention, please accept, Excellency, the assurances of my highest consideration.
Mohamed Abdelaziz,
President of the Saharawi Republic,
Secretary-General of the Frente POLISARIO. (SPS)
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