AFAPREDESA
The Association for the Families of Saharawi Prisoners and the Disappeared
More than 34 Saharawi students wounded and two others arrested in the University campus Souissi I and Suissi II in Rabat
More than 34 Saharawi students were wounded last Monday night, one of whom was in critical state, as they were reprehended by Moroccan police in the university campus of Souissi I and II; student sources reported from the Moroccan capital.
Rabat, 10/05/2006 (SPS) Bachir Mayara, who was thrown by the police agents from the 4th floor of the Building "B" in the Souissi II campus, remains in the emergencies of the hospital El Irfane in Rabat. He suffers from fractures in his head, arms, and other parts of his body and is vomiting blood, according to his friends who fears hem ay have been injured in he livers.
Concerning the arrested students, Ali Chay and Abdallahi Al Ansari
were led in a police car towards an unknown destination and are certainly "submitted
to tortures and interrogatories", according to their friends,
who said the list of the victims of this intervention is not yet "definitive".
Saharawi girls in the campus were also victim to this agression, it was reported. The same sources said the girls were "threatened of rape" by police agents, who "ransacked their rooms, destroyed their televisions, cell phones and even stole their money".
In a press release published on Wednesday, the students estimated that this "barbaric intervention" by the Moroccan forces of security aims to "prevent possible demonstrations the Saharawi students could do to commemorate the creation of Polisario (10 May 1973), the start of the armed struggle against the Spanish colonialism (20 May 1973) or the first anniversary of the Intifada of independence (21 May 2005).
On the other hand, they re-proclaimed their support to the "decolonisation of the Western Sahara through a self-determination referendum under the auspices of the UN" and their determination to "continue the peaceful struggle" until the "liberation of their country from the Moroccan colonial yoke is achieved". (SPS)