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Uit betrouwbare bron in door Marokko bezet West-Sahara is vernomen dat in de nacht van vrijdag 31 maart op zaterdag 1 april opnieuw een golf van razzia's heeft plaatsgevonden, onder Saharaanse activisten die zich hebben uitgesproken voor een referendum en voor onafhankelijkheid van het gebied. De Marokkaanse bezettingsmacht viel huizen binnen, richtte vernielingen aan en arresteerde meer dan 40 personen, in verschillende steden van West-Sahara: El Aaiun, Smara en Boujdour.
In de nacht van 28 op 29 maart vond ook al een ongehoord gewelddadige actie plaats tegen weerloze Saharaanse burgers. Nadat 30 Saharaanse politieke gevangenen waren vrijgelaten, bereidde de bevolking van Smara een feestelijke onthaal aan een van hen, Osman El-Lud. Marokkaanse leger- en politie-eenheden vielen de verzamelde mensen aan en verwondden en arresteerden tientallen van hen waaronder veel vrouwen. Enkelen zijn in ernstige toestand overgebracht naar het ziekenhuis van El Aaiun, een van de vrouwen verloor haar ongeboren kind. Osman El-Lud werd vastgebonden tesamen met zijn moeder en de hele nacht zo op straat achtergelaten.
Foto's van de gebeurtenissen in Smara zijn te vinden op http://www.arso.org/Smara270306/. Sedert mei 2005 verzet de Saharaanse bevolking zich openlijk tegen de Marokkaanse bezetting, waarbij vrijwel dagelijks protestacties en demonstraties ergens in het gebied plaatsvinden.
Het Front Polisario, de bevrijdingsbeweging van West-Sahara, heeft afgelopen week in een brief aan de secretaris-generaal van de Verenigde Naties, Kofi Annan, gevraagd Marokko tot de orde te roepen en een VN-missie onder leiding van de Hoge Commissaris voor de Mensenrechten tot het gebied toe te laten. De letterlijke tekst van deze brief bevindt zich onder aan dit bericht.
Op maandag 3 april vindt te New York een gesprek plaats tussen de secretaris-generaal van het Front POLISARIO, en de VN-secretaris-generaal Kofi Anan.
Voor meer informatie:
Stichting Zelfbeschikking West-Sahara
Liesbeth den Haan
Tel. 010-2141191
st.zelfbeschikkingwest-sahara@planet.nl
www.west-sahara.nl
His Excellency
Mr. Cesar Mayoral
President of the Security Council
United Nations
New York
New York, 28 March 2006
Mr. President,
Following official instructions, I have the honour to address to you this note to inform you on the serious events that took place last weekend in the town of Smara that is illegally occupied by the Kingdom of Morocco.
On the occasion of the welcome reception, carried out on Sunday night 26 March 2006, by hundreds of Saharawi civilians for the Saharawi political prisoner recently released from Morocco, Mr. Ozman El-Lud, the military forces of Moroccan occupation, after besieging the neighbourhood where Mr. El-Lud dwells, conducted by night a brutal storming of the area and engaged in a violent repression against those gathered there, injuring dozens of people, and detaining more than eighty citizens, among them a large number of women. Most of the detainees suffer multiple injuries and are in a serious situation due to the torture that they have suffered during the first intervention, and subsequently in the headquarters of the police station of the judiciary police.
During the assault, the occupation forces also engaged in breaking into houses and destroying the goods of several families, among them the family of the recently released prisoner who in turn was handcuffed along with his mother before being thrown in the street where they remained until dawn (see annexes).
The repression unleashed by the Moroccan occupying forces in Smara is a new proof of the continuity of a policy of defiance of the international legality and the validity of the fundamental human rights.
The United Nations, particularly after the release by the Frente POLISARIO of the last Moroccan prisoner of war, has been trying unsuccessfully to send a mission from the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to Western Sahara.
Morocco’s distortions and its usual dilatory tactics, aiming at hiding from the scrutiny of observers or humanitarian delegations the truth of what is happening in the illegally occupied Territory, have so far impeded the arrival of the High Commissioner’s delegation. Morocco therefore is trying to ensure that the report of the UN Secretary-General, expected to be submitted in April, does not contain the outcome of the work of the mission.
The continuous violation of human rights in the Territory and the deliberate action of precluding the United Nations from holding the self-determination referendum provided for in several resolutions of the Council and the General Assembly all involve the high risk of a drastic regression of the peace process so far maintained within the peaceful framework endorsed by the United Nations by virtue of the Settlement Plan approved by the Council and accepted by the two parties.
Morocco has been repeating the same mistake of believing that it can claim for itself the monopoly of the use of force against innocents, and the right to make and to unmake the results of the laborious efforts invested by the United Nations for more than 14 years for the achievement of the decolonisation of Western Sahara, the last colony in Africa. The Saharawi side cannot indefinitely remain with its arms crossed in the face of such acts of extreme gravity. The Security Council should decisively intervene to avoid that the Moroccan attitude and behaviour push the events to a point of no return.
While informing you of the foregoing, I shall be grateful if you would bring the content of the present letter and its annexes to the attention of the Members of the Council.
I avail myself of this opportunity to renew to you, Mr. President, the assurances of my highest consideration.
Ahmed Boukhari,
Representative of the Frente POLISARIO
Annex 1
Some of the families whose houses were broken into by Moroccan forces:
Family of Ozman El-Loud; of Mulay Ahmed Uld Mohamed Salem; of Fadli Uld Karroum; of Ahmed Uld Mohamed Salem Uld Hamma; of Bulah Said Baiba; of Dahmi Abeid Mulana; of Labbat Musa; of Mohamed Hmednah; of Bachir Abeid; Garage of Hosein Lehbib Mneisir.
Annex 2
Provisional list of the detainees, most of them are injured among whom are many women:
MRS. FATMA ZAHRA BRAHIM BRAIKA; MRS. BAINAN ABDU ULD BACHIR; MRS. SALKA ABDU ULD BACHIR; NOUCHA ALI BRAHIM; SRA.MONNINA SIDI EMANN; SRA.WADNOUNI FATMA; AFIF ALI: seriously injured, transferred to La Aaiún; MRS. NAZIHA WALKS HER TAMYI: Pregnant. The injuries led to her aborting. She was transferred to La Aaiún.
AFIFI AL-LAL; MRS. LAILA MUSTAFA FAL; MRS. KALTUM LEHSEN AADI; MRS. YAKUTA LEHSEN AADI; MRS. ZAURIA OMAR TAHER; MRS. MARIAM IYICH; TAHANI SALAMA BUYEMA; MRS. NAYAH SALAMA BUYEMA; MRS. INTISAR SALAMA BUYEMA; MAHMUD MOHAMED LJRIF; MRS. LEEYELA HASAN BAY; MRS. MUNINA SAID BOY; MRS. AMINETU LIMAM JATRI BUZEID; MRS. AGAILA LEHSEN OMAR; MOHAMED FADEL MOHAMED SALEM HADI; FADLI SALAMA HAIMEDAHA; MRS. MLEWIHA BREIKA; AHMED MUSAUI; ZUGAM GAL; MRS. GLANA MULAY AHMED MOHAMED SALEM; MOHAMED LAMIN MULAY AHMED MOHAMED SALEM; MRS. METU ALI MAATI; MUSAUI JATRI; MRS. FATIMETU ABEID MULANA; MRS. MARIAM ABEID MULANA; MRS. HURIA ABEID MULANA; NTEITICHY YUSEF; NAFAA NOUCHA; MRS. SAIFU ZERGUI; WALI ZAZ BUHALI; MUHIN BRAHIM; BIYADILAH BRAHIM; AMIN NAFAA; MRS. HAYAT HAY MULAY AHMED; HAIMUDA ELBAREK; MRS. NAHA SALKI; MRS. KARUM TEKBER; MRS. SALKA BOICHER
- BACHIR ULD ELHUSEIN; MOHAMED SALEM ULD ELHUSEIN; BRAHIM ABDI BACHIR; WAFA JALIL; DAUDI BUZAID [MUYAHID SIDI MOHAMED; CHERIF MAHYUB BACHIR FADLI; MRS. SALKA ELWAFI; MRS.HLEISA MERZOUG; MRS. BAIBA ALI MAATI; ISMAILI AZIZA KHATRI BACHIR; MRS. WAHMANI SALKA; MRS.FATIMETU SAIDI; MRS. NADIR MARIAM; MRS. MUJERS ENGUIA; BASIR RAGUEB; ISMAILI MAHMUD; MRS. LALTU DAHA; MRS.ISAILI NAYAHSRA.NAINNA SAIDI; MRS.JADIYETU DAGHCH; MRS.MTEITU ALI;ABDELAHI MULAY AHMED MOHAMED SALEM; MRS.SUKEINA MULAY AHMED MOHAMED SALEM; AZIZ MOHAMED SALEM; MRS.SUADU BAIBA; TANYI BRAHIM HAMUDI; MRS. GALI ESSAD BAHAHA; NOUCHA ALI LATRACH; LABEIDI HMEIM;LEBSIR SALAHA; ELKHALIL ZREIBIA; MOJTAR AHMEDU KOURI; MALAININ MOJTAR; MRS.GALI SALAMA YAMEAA; MOHAMED LAMIN ALI LATRACH; SID BRAHIM LEBSIR; MOHAMED SALEM MOHAMED YESLEM; BACHIR MOHAMED LAMIN SID ELARBI; MRS. GALI ALI ELUALI; OZMAN ALIYAT LATRACH; CHEIKH DADAH BOUMRAH; MRS.SUADU MOHAMED ALI; MRS.HABAL BANAHI DAHA; MRS. AZIZA JARTI BACHIR; MRS.MARIAM MOHAMED HMEDNAH; MRS.FAKA MOHAMED LEBDADI; MRS. KHADIYETOU MOHAMD ELABD; MRS. LAILA MOUSTAFA FAL; MRS.MARIYAM BACHIR ABEID; MRS.AMINETOU BACHIR ABEID;
MRS. SALOUKA SIDAHMED MEILAS; MRS. ZAIARA MOHAMED; MRS. TARBA OMAR TAHER; MRS. AZIZA SALAMI HAMDI; MRS. SUKEINA MULAY AHMED HAMDI; MRS. FOITMA MNEISIR; NEMA TAHER LANSAR; MRS. TESLEM TANYI; MRS. TOUFA ABEIRI; MRS. FATMA NAYEM; MRS. FOITMA IYICH; MRS. AZIZA IYICH; HAFED BAHIYA; TENWAKA DAUDI; ALUMRI MOHAMED; MANKUR HAMADI; BALAH MOHAMED YESLEM; MOHAMED SALEM MOHAMED YESLEM; ALBAHAN LABGEIDI; MAKAOUI ABDELHADI; ACHHEB;
ZAIDAN AMAYER; FALI MOHAMED; NAFAA OZMAN; ALHAMDI AMIN; ALMOUJTAR LEHMAMI; BARAKAT AAHDI
Annex 3
The injured during the first intervention:
MRS. UMESAD MAHMUD KAROUM; FADLI KAROUM; ERRAGUEB MUSTAFA BRAHIM; MRS. MOINA SAID DRIBBLES; MRS. MAUGAF SAID DRIBBLES; MRS. ZOUENA MARHBA; MRS. MONINA MHAMED
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