AFAPREDESA
The Association for the Families of Saharawi Prisoners and the Disappeared
Polisario asks for media coverage of the UN High Commissioner for human rights mission to the Western Sahara
The Polisario Front’s Representation to the United Kingdom and Ireland called on the organisations of support to the Saharawi people to raise awareness of the Medias for the necessity of covering the first mission of the UN High Commissioner for human rights mission to the Western Sahara occupied territories as well as in the liberated zones.
London, 10/05/2006 (SPS) In a letter reported by the Algerian Press Agency, APS, Polisario Representation in London called on the parties in charge of the "Western Sahara Campaign" to help the UN High Commissioner ad-hoc Committee to unveil the Moroccan repression in the Western Sahara against the Saharawi people’s children.
The delegation of the High Commissioner, which will be replace next June
by the Council for Human Rights, is in charge of a mission of investigation,
the first of its kind since 30 years, as a result to the request of the
President of the Saharawi State, Mohamed Abdelaziz, in a report submitted
last April to the Un Secretary General, Kofi Annan.
The mission of the High Commissioner, planed for this May the 16th to
the 29th, will work until the 21st of May in the occupied territories,
to coincide with the first anniversary of the Saharawi popular uprising
in El Aaiun and in the other occupied Saharawi cities advocating the
right to self-determination and independence of the Western Sahara.
The second of the Polisario Front’s Representation in London, Limam Mohamed affirmed that the question is "whether the Moroccan authorities of occupation will collaborate in transparency or not".
"Will they let the UN mission to lead its mission and authorise journalists and international observers to have free access to the occupied territories, or will they make use of their usual methods closing these regions and deploying settlers, the agents of the Moroccan police and army", he wondered.
He further wondered if the Moroccan authorities would make use, anew, of repression against the Saharawi citizens to prevent them from expressing their attachment to their country and to Polisario Front, as it was the case during the Intifada (its first anniversary will be celebrated in May the 21st), in the different occupied Saharawi cities. (SPS)