Algiers, 25/12/2009 (SPS) The crackdown against the Sahrawi human rights by the Moroccan forces of occupation in the Sahara Western staked in 2009, jeopardizing the dotted Morocco the finger at international level.
The arrest in October, seven Sahrawi human rights and the expulsion of Western Sahara, on 14 November, the Sahrawi activist Ms. Haidar Aminetou to Lanzarote (Canary Islands), two facts reported by the international community, helped the Saharawi cause in the international arena more than any diplomatic offensive.
The intensification of repression against the Saharawi activists followed a particularly virulent speech of King Mohammed VI, in which he treated the activists as "traitors to the nation" to be punished heavily.
This draconian speech interfered after returning from Algeria seven Sahrawi waiting to be tried by a military court in Morocco. These activists were the eyes of the Moroccan authorities committed a crime of lese-majeste, because they had stayed in the Saharawi refugee camps and in the liberated territories from September 25 to October 4 before traveling to Algiers.
In Algiers, the militants had taken part in a meeting at which they had provided testimony to the reality of police repression and legal harassment exerted against them, their peers and the Saharawi population in the occupied territories of Western Sahara.
As for the Sahrawi activist, she had refused to register the Moroccan nationality on an access card at the airport in El Aaiun occupied capital of Western Sahara when she returned from a trip to the U.S. States where she received the Award''civil courage "awarded by the John-Train for his" peaceful resistance in Western Sahara ".
Its resistance to arbitrary power, she has expressed this time by observing a hunger strike for a little over a month demanding the return to his country, and thanks to his courage and the concert of international support that the Moroccan authorities bent and acceded to his demand.
At the height of resistance Aminetou, the Saharawi President, Mohamed Abdelaziz seized by written several foreign heads of state and the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, asking them to put pressure on Morocco to reverse its decision arbitrary cons Haidar.
While negotiations between Morocco and the Polisario Front, which began in 2007, stalled because of the intransigence of Rabat wants to impose its solution to the conflict in Western Sahara, in the form of autonomy under its sovereignty, activism of Sahrawi human rights in the occupied territories and the crackdown against them opened the eyes of the world about the reality of Western Sahara.
This is a non-autonomous territory regarded by the UN since 1966 and that Morocco has illegally occupied for over 34 years, against the will of the international community.
The appointment last January, the secretary general of the UN, Christopher Ross as special envoy for Western Sahara, was seen as a glimmer of hope that the Saharawi conflict reaching a settlement providing the right of the Saharawi people to self-determination principle demolished by Moroccan maneuvers during the year ending.
Recently, President Abdelaziz summarized the Saharawi conflict in a few words while calling for the establishment of a UN mechanism responsible for the protection of human rights in Western Sahara, the release of all Saharawi political prisoners , halting the campaign of repression and extortion, which would be a platform for successful direct and serious negotiations between the two parties to the conflict, Morocco and the Frente Polisario
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