AFAPREDESA
The Association for the Families of Saharawi Prisoners and the Disappeared
Brahim Sabbar, president of a human rights association has been detained
AFAPREDESA has learned that Moroccan security forces arrested four Saharawi
human rights activists on Saturday in El Aaiun, including the S.G of the
Saharawi Association of the Victims of the Human Right Violations committed
by the Moroccan State (ASVVGDHEM), the former Saharawi disappeared, Brahim
Sabbar.
Mr. Sabbar, accompanied by three of his compatriots, Haddi Ahmed Mahmoud Elkainan, Sbai Ahmed, member of the Coordinating Council of the ASVVGDHEM and member of the Committee for the Protection of the Back Jail, as well as Haddi Salah, were arrested on Saturday in El Aaiun and ill-treated by the Moroccan colonial authorities, which is detaining them until now because of "their activities in the defence of the human rights in the Western Sahara", a press release was publicised by the Association the same day, of which SPS received a copy.
The four human rights activists were arrested while they were travelling to the occupied city of Bojador, south of El Aaiun, the same source added.
Mr. Brahim Sabbar, had vividly denounced on Friday "the systematic and continuous violations of the human rights" perpetrated by the Moroccan Government against the Saharawi civilians, warning against the dangers of a "radicalisation" of the Intifada if Rabat persists in its repression.
He was victim to many intimidations and provocations because of these political opinions in favour of the Saharawi people’s right to self-determination. These opinions were publicised last Saturday, in the Moroccan newspaper, "El Bidaoui", affirming that the Moroccan Government is undertaking a real genocide against the Saharawi people since the military invasion of the territory in 1975.
On its part, the Saharawi Committee of the defence of the human rights in the occupied Smara, denounced the violations the Saharawi civilians are subjected to in the occupied territories of the Western Sahara, expressing "its support and unconditional solidarity" with the Saharawi political prisoners in hunger strike and with the victims of torture, especially that Saaidi Salek, who was recently burned with benzene in a Moroccan police station in El Aaiun.
The Committee also launched an appeal in direction of international human rights organisations and democratic forces so as to intervene in "emergency" to put an end to the human rights violations in the Western Sahara.
IN THE PREVIOUS DAYS TO HIS ARREST...
Mr. Brahim Sabar, S.G of the Saharawi Association of the victims of the human rights committed by the Moroccan State (ASVGVDHEM), vividly denounced "the systematic and persistent human rights violations", perpetrated by the Moroccan Government against the Saharawi civilians and warned against the dangers of the "radicalisation" of the Intifada if Rabat persists in its repression.
Mr. Sabar, who is also a member of the "Saharawi Committee for a self-determination referendum", stressed last Saturday in the Moroccan newspaper, El Bidaoui that the Moroccan Government invested a lot in a real genocide against the Saharawi people since the military invasion of the territory in 1975.
"Many human rights NGOs reported in their reports on the flagrant human rights violations committed in the 90ies perpetrated by the Moroccan State in the Western Sahara since 1975, mainly: the kidnapping, arrests, tortures, rapes and premeditated assassinations, threats, terror, repression, bombardment of the cities full of innocent civilians with banned bombs, deportations and extermination of live-stock", Mr. Sabar recalled.
He also added that "common graves where alive persons were buried", underlining that this kind of human rights violations is considered by the Geneva Human Rights Conventions as "war crimes and crimes against humanity".
"Such activities continue to rage" in the occupied territories of the Western Sahara, he said, adding that "since May 2005, these violations were accentuated by a daily repression against the Saharawi citizens, who express through peaceful demonstrations their attachment to their right to self-determination and independence".
Mr. Sabar did not exclude a possible tragedy, "if the international community does not intervene to put an end to this sad tragedy and exercise pressures so as to implement the international legality".
To Mr. Sabar, "the exemplary democratic solution lies in the implementation of the international legality through a self-determination referendum supervised by the UN as proposed in the Baker Plan, Polisario accepted with courage, despite the concession it gave".