As expected, Sahawi citizens in occupied Laayoune took the chance of the presence of the UN Fact-Finding Mission in town to communicate clear and loud their legitimate claims represented in the right of the Sahrawi people to self-determination and independence.
Yesterday, the Moroccan occupation authorities started distributing a considerable amount of national Sahrawi clothes "Draa and Malhfa" to masses of Moroccan settlers and Royal Army members, along with Moroccan flags and their King's pictures. This maneuver is a way to prevent the manifestation of Sahrawi demonstrators, and repressing any peaceful demonstration or sit-in they might organize. The objective of all that is to mislead the international public opinion and falsify the truth about the current situation in Western Sahara.
Sahrawi students started wide protest movements on the 17th of May in the following educational institutions:
Al Khansaa Preparatory School, The so called Al Hassan 1st High School and Lisan Eddine bin Al Khatib High School where the students brandished national flags, and chanted anti-occupation slogans rejecting the Moroccan presence in Western Sahara.
Moroccan oppression forces intervened to prevent the student from pursuing their peaceful demonstrations, and scattered them harshly. They then arrested three Sahrawi students (3) among whom Nawal Assamane and Al Kharashi Bousoula.
While some of the Sahrawi Human Rights Activists were in a meeting with the UN Fact-Finding Mission, Sahrawi populations started huge peaceful demonstrations in "Hamdi Lembarki" street (ex Smara street) and the adjacent streets, raising national flags and chanting national slogans rejecting the Moroccan occupation and claiming Western Sahara freedom and independence. They also affirmed that the sole and legitimate representative of the Sahrawi people is the POLISARIO.
Uraban police forces backed up with auxiliary forces and secret services members wearing civil clothes intervened brutally against the demonstrators beating them mercilessly, but failed to make them call off the protest. Then, massive forces of the Moroccan Royal Army were summoned to help repress the demonstrators in the above mentioned street and "Maatallh District" and "AlQods District". Several Sahrawi houses were besieged among which the houses of some former Sahrawi political prisoners.
The detained:
Lakhfawni Salek
Lakhfawni Abdallahi an ex-political prisoner.
Bashraya Lhayrash
Mohammed Bahiya Rashidi an ex-political prisoner.
Mohammed Fadel Lhayrash
Limam ould Lhayrash
Taghi ould Lhayrash
Ahriz Lmahjoub
Abba ali sidi ahmed
Dahha Rahmouni, who was arrested and released after an hour along with Mohammed
Fadel Lhayrash and Lbashir Lakhfawni who are Sahrawi Human Rights Activists.
Salaka Salami
Noumria Hasanna
Lhalim Mohammed
Mohammed Slaymane
Boufouss Faraji
Tahlil Mohammed an ex-political prisoner.
Aziz Bousoula
Jamal Mohammed Fadel Lhbib
Lhoucine Oum Lakhoute
Said Darbal
Yaya el bachir an ex-political prisoner.
Baba el arabi an ex-political prisoner.
Eddaoudo omar an ex-political prisoner.
Ettoubali el hafed an ex-political prisoner.
Lakhlifa ejjanhaoui an ex-political prisoner.
Mahmoud mustapha haddad an ex-political prisoner.
Bousaoula mouhamed
Zini sidi ahmed
Mouhamed maouloud bourial
Bouba mouhamed salem
Mouhamed essahraoui
The injured and wounded:
Sheikh Bousoula ould Ahmed Salem, who was tortured then released in a very
critical health condition.
Mohammed Boutabaa abde el fattah, who was beaten till he lost conscience,
and deliberately run over by a car belonging to the urban police forces.
His legs are fractured.
Said Salek
Mouhamed boutabaa el bachir Etthali
The nephew of former political prisoner Bouamoud who is in a serious state
in hospital.
Ali Amidane, who is in a very critical state in hospital.
Maalaynine Lmahoub Boutabaa, who was rushed to "Belmehdi" hospital
in Laayoune in a very serious condition.
Sheikh Mouloud Ould Ali Salem
Loumadi Said, double fracture on the legs.
Lmousawi Baka, serious fractures.
Karima Brahim Lmlih.
Lkmal Mohammed Bahiya
Niya Mohammed Lhamiya.
Faraha Babite
Ali Salem Lfkir, very serious health condition
Lbaylouna Ali Salem Lfkir
Abdesslam Loud
Mahmoud Mohammed Salem Lily
Salek Brahim Tounsi
Laazza Slaymane Mohammed Andallah, injury on the shoulder
Fatma Lfkir, pregnant suffering multiple injuries.
Dahmani Shrif
Laarousi Sid Ahmed
Toubali El wali .
Bouryal Hamza
Lblal Salka
Janhawi Khadija, in a very critical state in "Belmehdi" hospital,
Layoune.
Janhawi M'barka
Elfaghraoui sidi ahmed ettalab
Faddala jouda
Essoufi sallam
Salek el koutb
Elbachir el koutb
Slaiman el koutb
Ennouna el koutb
Fala fathi
El ghalia sidi ahmed daiedi
Bourial mouhamed el hassan
Boutabaa mouhamed fadel
Ennahiya lahbib
Slaieman mouhamed
Mouhamed fadel lahbib
El mousawi daieda
Tamanna el moisawi
El mousawi sidi ahmed
Hammada attam
Haidar sallam
Haidar essalah
Fatma ahrayam
Baierouk toutou
Baiella dounia
Baiella khaoula
Abba chiekh bahaha
Baiella saleka
Noura haidar
Faddala haidar
Bahaha el khalifa
Haidar bachir
Hayat haidar
Ahmed ettalab erragab
Aghniya ahmed mahjoub
Bakkada fatma
Rabiaa el faghraoui
El bachir el faghraoui
El garhi fateh
Salma hammama
Laaouamri aicha
Ejjanhaoui bakka
El idrissi mouhamed el hassan
Ahl Lhaj Mahmouda
Salmani Nasser
Oum Lakhoute Larousi
Yaya Abdesslam Sarakh
Abderrahmene Lmahrawi
Dejla Dleimi
Oum Lmoutnine Lmahjoub Boutabaa
Hana Maalaynine
Ali Bayba Shaybata
Fatimatou Amhamad
Ayash Lamina
Mariya Abhi
Taghla Lblal
Mohammed Lamine Sidi Zayn
Ayash Mohammed Salem Nbat
Lmahfoud Dahou
Lkarkar Amina
Lkarkar Zahra
Lbashir Boushalga
Soukaina daddi maouloud
El haidani ali salem
Mariam mouhamed eddah
Lakhlifa mouhamed laaroussi med el hachia
Aamar mouhamed ali salama
Zahra ali eddah
Lakhyar boujamaa ettaleb mouhamed
Bourial fatimattou
Essad el khan
Lamjayad ahdiedhoum
Maiemouna ali salem bahiya
Ayach eddarifa
Ayach gaboula
Akriemou kaouriya
Barha el houssein
Mustapha dwiya
Khadijatou dwiya
The broken-into houses:
Ahl el faghraoui ahmed ettalab
Ahl Bariya
Ahl Hamdi ould Sayid
Mohammed Mahmoud Haddi Lkaynane "former political prisoner"
Ahl Boutkanza
Ahl Sid Ahmad ould Lmhana
Ahl Swayah
Ahl Zaghmane Brahime
Ahl Lmokhtar ould Laamriya
Ahl Mohammed Fadel ould Lhbib
Ahl Laarousi Mohammed Mouloud ould Aamar
Ahl Lhaj Mahmoud
Ahl ejjanhaoui lakhlifa
Ahl ejjanhaoui el bachir
Sahrawi populations in "Maatallah" district rushed to the rescue and support of their compatriots in the form of a huge peaceful demonstrations raising national flags and chanting anti-occupation slogans as a sign of solidarity and union.
The Sahrawi Human Rights Activists strongly expressed their indignation towards the negative neutrality the UN mission is showing vis-à-vis the ongoing events in Laayoune. The mission didn't leave Parador hotel despite the insistence of the activists. As a pretext, the mission claims the non-jurisdiction on whatever event taking place in the streets.
The Sahrawi activists communicated their written protest to the UN mission that fixed another meeting with them the following day.