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Sahara A tinderbox ready to explode

In the non-implementation of UN resolutions, the impotence of the Saharawi people is growing on both sides of the Wall of Shame and you can hear voices calling for a return to arms.
In October 1975, Morocco invaded by blood and fire on Western Sahara, forcing thousands to flee into the desert while being chased and bombarded with napalm, white phosphorous and cluster bombs. 35 years later, still today, this area remains one of the Territories under UN supervision since their decolonization process was interrupted in 1976 by the Moroccan occupation.

International agencies have failed to meet the Alawite kingdom with the multitude of resolutions requiring it to give effect to a process of self-determination. Its territory is still occupied almost entirely by Morocco, but the liberated territories, or cities Tifariti, Bir Lehlu, Zug, Agüenit ... which are administered by the Government of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) - the passivity of the international community, represented by a MINURSO (UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara) that looks the other way when there are arbitrary arrests, disappearances and torture every day. Meanwhile, the expected peaceful Saharawi population turns to boredom and from refugee camps begin to hear calls to resume the armed struggle.

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Soon matter that the International Court of Justice, the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, in its opinion on Western Sahara (1975) found to apply Resolution 1514 of the General Assembly to the decolonization of the territory and, in particular the principle of self- the Saharawi people. Since then, the UN, the Council and the Assembly, has adopted dozens of resolutions on Western Sahara recognizing the right of the Saharawi people to self-determination, without any of them had an effect. This

have joined France and the U.S. efforts, with the silent complicity of other European states. Western Sahara has a dual nature international law: it is a "dependent territory", but also a "territory under military occupation" and therefore should be subject to the legal parameters of international humanitarian law and the application of Geneva Convention IV. But Morocco, the second country in the world in violating UN resolutions, surpassed only by Israel, these diplomatic commitments are worthless.

Currently, the Sahrawi people live divided between refugee camps and refugees in a foster, near Tindouf, and the occupied territories of Western Sahara. What divides the wall of shame built by Morocco has 2,720 miles and is over 160,000 protected by armed soldiers, 240 batteries of artillery, more than 20,000 km of barbed wire, thousands of armored vehicles and millions of landmines banned by international conventions.

This wall is a great military wall that divides north and south turning an entire people in the occupied territories, found only 100 km from Europe, in a giant prison. Thousands of men and women subjected to a state of siege, more like a true apartheid. The Alawite regime in the occupied territories has deployed thousands of troops and police in the cities, neighborhoods, schools and colleges to control the streets, search houses and to impose a climate of terror and fear. He stops and torture of Sahrawi and produce summary trials without due process and long and unjust sentences.



rights violation in the media Absent
The violation of human rights in the territories occupied by the Moroccan regime is the daily bread. If at first the occupation of this village was subjected to a full-scale genocide, today there are the disappearances of activists, arbitrary arrests, torture and the lack of guarantees to the police and the courts, while continuing persecution higher profile criminal trials against Sahrawi leaders and policy advocates human rights. However, it is a reality that is absent from the media, which also echo the hunger strikes are taking place Saharawi political prisoners, nor the whereabouts of more than 500 people missing, or the 151 prisoners of war. Neither the unemployment caused the Sahrawi people, which leads them to live in poverty.

The organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) has legitimate complaints of violation of Human Rights and the Sahrawi. In a report without mincing words, stated that Western Sahara is usually repress freedom of expression and the right to freedom of assembly and association of those who defend Saharawi self-determination and human rights. "The security forces arbitrarily detain Sahrawi activists suspected protesters and those who beat, torture and forced to sign confessions incriminating police, all with virtual impunity, and the courts have convicted and sent to prison by unfair trials." The report has great importance for its rigor and the solvency of the international NGO that is born, but also because it attempts to call white black on the possible violation of human rights in this conflict are rare as they tend to be torpedoed.

And, when speaking of the Moroccan regime, to forget minded analysis Western. Must start from the premise that Mohamed VI rules his country with approaches more typical of the Middle Ages. It is absolute ruler of everything that happens in this country. In Morocco, obtain citizenship while the person is considered king's subjects, otherwise their fate will always be adverse. In particular, in addition, if you're Saharawi, a people that neither before nor has been considered the subject of the Alawite ruler. In fact, territorial integrity that both defends the Moroccan regime has no value for the Saharawi people. As the Sahrawi leader Bashir Ahmed Omar "We are not Moroccan Sahrawi us. If what they claim is that we recognize that the Western Sahara our country is part of Morocco are on the wrong track. Although regime spokesmen defend the Moroccan Sahara, lie. Neither the international community itself recognizes Moroccan sovereignty over the territory and there are hundreds of documents that certify. The UN resolutions speak of self-governing territory awaiting decolonization. Clearly the last word is the Saharawi people, is he alone who must decide their future. "Even the International Court certified it in 1975-continues Ahmed Omar Western Sahara was never part of the Kingdom of Morocco or the Mauritanian set , so that nothing interferes with the right of self determination of the people. And the Saharawi know that in the history of our people our ancestors never gave allegiance to the sultans of Morocco. It is our country and we say it clearly. "Accused Morocco of occupying our territory, build a wall that divides our country, to pursue and torture our citizens, our youth imprisoned with impunity, to suppress any act of protest, of undocumented human rights activists, to plunder our wealth, settlers moved into our cities, to expel renowned Saharawi ban the visit of international delegations, not to allow the work of the journalists did not support the regime ... "said Omar.

Resistance peaceful settlement of the Saharawi population in the territories occupied by Morocco, and the effort of survival and cohesion in the camps and in the liberated areas seem to support their words and show the determination that is still strong among the Saharawi to defend their independence.

However, after 35 years of waiting for diplomatic solutions, the people's patience is wearing thin. The UN recently adopted a decision to stoop powers of enforcing human rights and if incompetent MINURSO and more and more voices clamoring Saharawi to your Government for the return to arms to resolve the conflict . Nobody wants this to happen. However, neither No one shall be liable for the Saharawi people of what would be a tragedy foretold, after years of waiting peaceful and confidence in the UN-sponsored negotiations.
source: noticiasdeguipozkoa.com

Shooting Pain To Left Side Of Neck And Head

Galeano calls''sin''wall of shame with which divides Morocco Western Sahara

The famous Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano, has pointed out, among other things, the infamous "wall of shame" that was built by Morocco in Western Sahara, during a lecture delivered on Tuesday, September 7 at the headquarters of the English Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECI) in Madrid.

As part of the conference "Post-global crisis: effects on developing countries and media impact "that the Inter Press Service (IPS) and the AECI develop within the week English Cooperation, the President of the Association of Saharawi women in Spain (AMSE), Zahra Ramdán attended the lecture entitled" Some deadly sins of the world upside down "offered during the closing ceremony of the famous Uruguayan writer.

Eduardo Galeano who was accompanied by Chairman of the Agency IPS and Fundación Cultura de Paz, Federico Mayor Zaragoza, Director of the AECI, Elena Madrazo Hegewisch and Mario Lubetkin, Director General of IPS.

Within these "sins" the Uruguayan writer spoke on the infamous "wall of shame" that was built by the Kingdom Morocco in Western Sahara, a set of eight defensive walls of a length exceeding 2,720 km, a military area with fences, bunkers and millions of land mines built to effectively protect the territory occupied by Morocco Polisario incursions and prevent the return of Sahrawi refugees to the territory.

addition, Galeano questioned the ability of United Nations to ensure global peace and security in response to the formation of its Security Council, where countries such as France are allied commercial and strategic interests with governments like Morocco blocking any negotiations to solve the problem of Western Sahara desolonización.

AMSE President, Zahra Ramdan, who spoke at the end of that lecture where he made an urgent appeal to all media to break the information blockade imposed by the occupation authorities as well as denounced the systematic violation of rights human rights by the Moroccan Government. Also thanked Mr. Eduardo Galeano its solidarity with its suffering people, which the Uruguayan writer knows very well their just cause.
source (SPS)

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A mine kills one Children in the Western Sahara

A child died and three people were injured when a mine buried in the soil to the passage of a Land Rover. The incident occurred in Bir Ganduz, south of Western Sahara. It is estimated that on both sides of the wall that divides the territory of Western Sahara Morocco has planted at least five million mines.

A Saharawi child died a few days in the Sahara desert at Bir Ganduz, when an explosive device in the ground covered Expos, one of the mines with Morocco, with the support arms of France, seeded Western Sahara.

The mine exploded when passing over a Land Rover with four passengers. In addition to the dead boy, the rest of the passengers was seriously injured. As already known by the mark left by the explosion, was dinaminta trinitrotoluene, also known as TNT.

For several hours, as has been reported an association which defends the fulfillment of human rights in Western Sahara, the victims were not being addressed or receive at the site of the explosion of any kind of medical help. They were later taken to hospital in the nearest city, Dakhla, as reported by relatives of the injured to UpIt Online.

The drama builds up with the aforementioned family, who suffered three years ago and the explosion of a mine in the same region as the recent incident. Three years ago, killed another children.

estimated on both sides of the wall that divides the Western Sahara is roughly about five million landmines planted by Morocco. In 1997 he promulgated the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction, also known as the Ottawa Convention, the place of signature. Morocco, after 13 years, has not found enough time to sign and begin to clear mines in Western Sahara.

Source: guinguinbali