El Aaiun (occupied territories), 03/06/2006 (SPS) Demonstrators raised the flags of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic and chanted slogans advocating self-determination of the Saharawi people and asking for the "immediate withdrawal" of the Moroccan occupation of the Saharawi territories.
The Moroccan forces of repression "brutally" intervened to disperse the demonstrators and arrested the Saharawi citizens: Lekhlifi Lemaïti, Brahim Aboiled, Abdallah Aboiled, Hreima Amin, El Emir Lekhlifa, Tariq Mohamed Yahya, Brahim Belkheir, Vala Chtouki, Sleima Oumar Hamda and Boussaoula Baba Ahmed.
They also ransacked seven Saharawi houses and destroyed the goods and property of their owners, the same sources added.
On another hand, the father of Saiidi Salek, who was interpellated by the Moroccan colonial authorities in El Aaiun trying to "intimidate", reaffirmed that he will not "stop before he knows all the truth about what happened to his son".
On it side the Saharawi Association of the victims of the flagrant human rights violations committed by the Moroccan State has warned last May against "the escalade in the over use of power and the blockage of investigation procedures" regarding hundreds complaints the justice receives, what is "aggravating the situation and encouraging the secret services and security forces to do what ever they want so as to quiet the demonstration with impunity".
On his part, the President of the Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz, had called on the UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan, to intervene vis-à-vis Morocco to stop the repression in the Western Sahara after the torture inflicted to Mr. Saiidi Salek, burned with benzene, last May the 28th in a police station in El Aaiun, it should be recalled. (SPS)