AFAPREDESA
The Association for the Families of Saharawi Prisoners and the Disappeared
A French association appeals the UN for protection from human rights violations in the Western Sahara
The French Association of Friendship and Solidarity with the Peoples of
Africa (AFASPA) called on the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mrs.
Louise Arbour, to denounce "the human rights violations perpetrated
by the Moroccan State in the Western Sahara (arbitrary detentions, tortures,
forced disappearance...)" and to impose the "respect of the international
law in this region".
"Concerned about the set of violent repression to which peaceful Saharawi demonstrators are subjected" and about "an even more serious deterioration" that may be generated by "the confrontations between the Saharawi populations and the Moroccan settlers" alimented by "police provocation", AFASPA called on Mrs. Arbour to intervene vis-à-vis the Moroccan authorities to put an end to this dramatic situation. (SPS)