Category Archives: Human Rights

Polisario demands UN council probe of Sahara clash

Mon Nov 15, 2010 5:55pm GMT
* Independence group threatens to reconsider peace talks
* Polisario says U.N. failed to protect Sahara’s people
By Patrick Worsnip

UNITED NATIONS, Nov 15 (Reuters) – Western Sahara’s independence movement on Monday demanded a U.N. probe of recent clashes in the territory and threatened to reconsider its role in peace talks with Morocco unless they brought quick results.

The demands came in a letter from the Polisario Front’s U.N.

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Thousands demonstrate in Madrid against crackdown

Moroccan Forces Raid Protest Camp in Western Sahara
Laayoune

Thousands of people demonstrated in Madrid on Saturday against Morocco’s recent crackdown in Western Sahara. Moroccan security forces last week raided a camp where some 20,000 Sahrawis had been staging a massive protest against the Moroccan occupation.

Program on TV with Stephen Zunes and Human rights Watch director of emergencies speaking from Western Sahara:

Strange international silence about Moroccan army killing Saharawis

Moroccan army killing Saharawis in the occupied territories of Western Sahara amidst a strange international silence

The articles below do not report about hundreds peoples injured or killed after the Moroccan attack of 8 November, an attack that is still on-going according to reports by Saharawis activists under siege.
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Amnesty International calls for investigation into deaths in Western Sahara protest camp

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
Press Release , 11 November 2010

“The Moroccan authorities must open an independent investigation into events that led to a number of deaths and injuries at Gadaym Izik, a protest camp near Laayoune, Western Sahara,” Amnesty International said today.

The government says nine people were killed during Monday’s operation and in its aftermath, including eight members of the security forces. Local human rights activists have told Amnesty International that 11 camp residents were seen lying injured on the ground, some of whom were bleeding while others had been burnt.

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Americans Appeal to Obama to Protect Sahrawis in Western Sahara

For Immediate Release: November 5, 2010
American NGOs, Human Rights Activists Call on Obama to Protect Sahrawis in Western Sahara

(Washington, D.C.)…Representatives of American non-governmental organizations and human rights activists sent a letter today to President Barack Obama requesting his immediate help to protect the lives of the Sahrawis in Moroccan-Occupied Western Sahara.  Protesting their treatment as second class citizens in their own homeland, the Sahrawis have left the city of El Aaiun to set up a tent camp.
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Moroccan forces destroy protest camp in Western Sahara – at least three dead

Australia Western Sahara Association
Press Release
For immediate release  – Tuesday 9 November 2010

Moroccan forces destroy protest camp in Western Sahara – at least three dead.
AWSA calls for end to the violence and respect for rights of the Saharawi people

The Australia Western Sahara Association condemns the attack at the protest camp of Gdeim Izik, near El Aauin, the capital of occupied Western Sahara at dawn on Monday 8 November.
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AWSA press release expresses concern at the killing of a 14 year old boy

Australia Western Sahara Association
Press Release – 26 October 2010
AWSA issued a press release expressing concern at the killing of a 14 year old boy on Sunday by Moroccan troops and calling on the Australian government to press for the protection of the Saharawi civilian population living under Moroccan rule.

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