AFAPREDESA
The Association for the Families of Saharawi Prisoners and the Disappeared
JOINT REPORT INFORMING ABOUT THE RUTHLESS AGGRESSIONS PERPETRATED BY THE MOROCCAN OCCUPATION AUTHORITIES AGAINST SAHARAWI STUDENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY CAMPUSES OF THE MOROCCAN CAPITAL.
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The Moroccan forces of occupation assaulted the university campuses Suisi
I and II (where the saharawi students live) in the Moroccan capital of Rabat
during the dawn from the 8 to the 9 of May of 2006. All methods of repression
were used
in the mentioned assault, including mistreatment as well as looting and
destruction of student property. As a result of this criminal action, many
saharawis were wounded and detained.
The Association for the Families of Saharawi Prisoners and the Disappeared (AFAPREDESA) and the Union of Saharawi Lawyers (UJS), having followed the dangerous events registered in the university campuses and in the occupied territory of the Saharawi Republic with much preoccupation, declare the Moroccan colonial Government as completely responsible for the coward and barbaric aggression the defenceless saharawi students suffered.
Both associations energetically condemn the abominable aggression through which Morocco adds another link to its continuous and systematic criminal chain against the children of the saharawi people since the kingdom invaded our immaculate soil in 1975.
AFAPREDESA and UJS beg all equality and justice lovers, associations, political
parties, parliaments, news media, international personalities and all the
international community to condemn and reject this abominable crime and
to ask for international protection for our people, which suffers from the
colonial occupation, and the terrorism of state practiced by the government
of Morocco with the only purpose of striking the resistance of our people
and trying to force us to give in to the occupation, deportation, arrogance,
and terrorism of the Moroccan occupation.
As a consequence to this dangerous deterioration of the events that took place a few days prior to the arrival of the United Nations Human Rights High Commissioner, both associations ask all our people’s children and all national actors to firmly support in solidarity and unite against the crimes and aggression of Morocco, thus to frustrate their tending plans to silence all the saharawi voices that reject the occupation.
Moreover,
they beg the United Nations Human Rights High Commissioner, Mrs. Louise
Arbour, so that her international investigation commissions do contact with
the saharawi students so that examinations of continuously committed serious
human rights violations and fundamental liberties against the saharawi students
who study in the Moroccan universities perpetrated by Moroccan forces of
occupation can take place.
Finally, both associations demand the Moroccan government the immediate and unconditional liberation of all saharawi political prisoners and human rights´ activists; the withdrawal of all the fake and abusive sentences standing against some of them; the liberation of 151 saharawi military prisoners; to know the whereabouts of 526 missing saharawi and the freeing of the occupied territory of the Western Sahara before the international mass media, parliamentary and international delegations and other observers.
06 of May of 2006
Written in the Refugee Camps of pride and dignity