Plea over Western Sahara

[brim]

For us Saharawis, it is hard to fathom why our moderate and pragmatic
attitude has not attracted a positive response from the influential
powers when our aim is to establish a modern state based on democracy and
respect of human rights. This is the same objective that wars were
supposedly waged to accomplish in Kuwait, Afghanistan and Iraq.

Morocco is trying hard to convince the world community of a solution
that would legitimise its illegal occupation of our country. Such a
solution will be doomed to fail as it is undemocratic and illegitimate,
contrary to the aspirations of the Saharawi people and the verdict of the
International Court of Justice. It will also be in contravention of the
UN decolonisation process as well as the UN resolutions in support of
the right of self-determination for the Saharawi people.

Source: http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/640/640p20.htm


(NAK, THINK before you reply!)

[NAK__-KKK]

we do not have any problems , and Morocco is not trying to convince the world of whatsoever as you said .....we took the Western Sahara BY FORCE 30 years ago , we occupy it BY FORCE , we maroccanise it BY FORCE , and any bastard who is not happy with it will be sadomised and cut in pieces ....the fact that you keep on whinning and complaining in this and other forums won't change nothing ...we just feel sorry for your helplessness......

[Ghazala]

Bobo, you never stop do you? "Us Sahrawis"????? You make me laugh

[Ghazala]

American NGO calls on US President to urge Bouteflika to 'work towards justice for Tindouf camps vic
Washington, Aug. 29 - The American Council for Moroccan POWs (ACMP) has appealed to US president, George W. Bush, "to call on Algeria's president Bouteflika to work towards justice for the Tindouf camps' victims, survivors and their families".

Tinfouf camps, located south-western Algeria, are controlled by the Polisario Front, a separatist group that lays claim to Morocco's Sahara. The Polisario holds thousands of Sahrawi families under siege in the camps in poor living conditions.

In a letter addressed on August 28 to president Bush, ACMP also exhorts the US head of state "to call upon the Algerian government to open the Tindouf camps up and to tear them down", and to "free and allow the camps inhabitants to return to their homes and families and bring an end to the last cold war conflict".

ACMP expresses, on the other hand, gratitude to the US president for his "decisive action" on behalf of the Moroccan POWs, who were recently released by the Polisario. The 404 Moroccan released detainees, included some prisoners who spent nearly three decades in the Polisario prisons.

The letter notes that the intervention of the US president "alleviated the suffering and the anguish of thousands of relatives and friends" of the released POWs.

The document underlines that this operation was successful because President Bush "addressed the right and most responsible party in the Moroccan Sahara conflict, namely Algeria."

ACMP points out, however, that joy will be incomplete "while hundreds of their comrades are unaccounted for and disappeared", and while "thousands of Sahrawis are not free to leave the camps on the Algerian soil and are held there for political reasons and not because of humanitarian motives".

The American NGO also draws attention in its letter to the siege imposed by Algerian security forces around the camps “where any form of protest or rebellion against the terrible living conditions is severely repressed and put down by force”, and where thousands of young children are separated from their parents to be shipped off to Cuba.

[brim]

ACMP aren't very good with the truth though. They have said

"The California-based NGO also urged Algiers to close and dismantle “these camps of shame that the Algerian military security services have been running ruthlessly and with an iron fist,” and to give international observers and NGOs free and unfettered access to the camps in order to monitor the situation on the ground.
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There has been , since the camps were set up, 'free and unfettered access' for anyone who wanted it. ACMP are merely trying to muddy the waters. Look at this piece...

The American Council for Moroccan POWs recommended that Algeria sets up, through negotiations with the concerned parties, a trust fund seeking “the indemnification and rehabilitation of the victims, and their families, of heinous crimes that occurred on Algerian territory.”

Like the NAPALMING that they got from MOROCCAN forces when they were fleeing? That's pretty heinous is it not?
ACMP are quite fraudulent. They are merely an arm of the Moroccan state and don't have any care for these people bar any political capital that they can gather for Rabat.

People who deserve to be taken seriously are groups like AMDH. They exist IN Maroc and are subject to the whims and uncertainties of the Moroccan security forces. They are BRAVE. http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L29425457.htm

p.s. Ghazala, I was QUOTING not stating.