Monthly Archives: May 2007

Senator Lyn Allison writes to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon

“Dear Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
I write in support of the people of Western Sahara. Western Sahara continues to be regarded by the United Nations as a non-self-governing territory and as such is entitled to a process of decolonisation. The UN has a responsibility to ensure that its doctrine of decolonisation is practiced to the letter in Africa’s last remaining colony….
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Moroccan police in Western Sahara attack demonstrators

The Associated Press – The International Herald Tribune, Friday, May 11, 2007
RABAT, Morocco: Police in Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara attacked pro-independence demonstrators Friday, human rights campaigners said.
A spokesman for the Saharawi Association for Human Rights Victims said police violently broke up the demonstration, held Friday morning in Laayoune, Western Sahara’s main city.
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Racist attacks against Sahrawi students in Agadi

Sahrawi Association of Victims of Grave Human Rights Violations Committed by the Moroccan State (ASVDH) Statement, El-Ayoune, on May 10, 2007 
Following the bloody events, which occurred recently at the university IBNO ZOHR of Agadir, and which resulted in tens of wounded in a very worrying situation and the arrest of five Sahrawi students, after an attack of some chauvinistic and racist Moroccan students against Sahrawi students, demonstrations of protest and solidarity…..
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9 May 2007 – Western Sahara Briefing to US Congress

Western Sahara Briefing: Current Developments and Challenges to Self-Determination
Opening Statement
Chairman Donald M. Payne   May 09, 2007, 10:30am, RHOB 2255
Good morning, and thank you all for joining us.  The purpose of this briefing is to examine the current developments on Western Sahara and challenges to self-determination as presented by Morocco’s recent “autonomy” proposal.
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“Morocco has shown itself to be a first class illusionist”

STATEMENT OF THE HONORABLE FRANK RUDDY, U.S. AMBASSADOR (ret.), FORMER DEPUTY CHAIRMAN OF THE U.N. PEACEKEEPING MISSION FOR WESTERN SAHARA (MINURSO)
BEFORE THE WESTERN SAHARA BRIEFING AT THE US CONGRESS ON MAY 9, 2007:
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
The secret of illusionists is to concentrate the audience’s attention on the left hand while the right hand creates the deception.
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