Western Sahara: Second CODESA report on the human rights situation

The second short report on the situation of human rights in occupied Western Sahara after the resumption of the war between the Moroccan occupation force and the Polisario Front

The Committee for the Protection of Sahrawi Civilians commissioned by the Executive Bureau of the Collective of Sahrawi Human Rights Defenders, was able to monitor the crimes against humanity committed by the Moroccan occupation force against Sahrawi civilians.

1 / Medical malpractice of the Sahrawi human rights defender "Bamba Sharif Lafkir":

At 12 on 20 November 2020, the administration of the occupied El-Aaiun Military Hospital refused to receive the human rights defender "Bamba Sharif Lafkir", 65, and It should be noted that "Bemba Al-Sharif Lafkir "He was beaten several times by the force of the Moroccan occupation because of his participation in the peaceful demonstrations that demanded the right of the Saharawi people.

The statement of his family confirmed that there are superior instructions to the administration of the Third Military Hospital to refuse to receive him and guarantee his human right to treatment, in accordance with articles 13 and 16 of the fourth Geneva Convention for the protection of Sahrawi civilians. , and evoking the legal situation of occupied Western Sahara, framed in international humanitarian law.

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2 / The arrest of the Sahrawi human rights defender "Sultana Khaya" and the assault on her family:

On November 19, 2020, members of the Moroccan occupation force police detained the Sahrawi human rights defender "Sultana Khaya", president of the Saharawi Association for Human Rights and the Protection of Wealth, in Bojador / Sahara Occupied Occidental, where she was subjected to a thorough search of all luggage, after arriving on November 18, 2020 at the El-Aaiún / Western Sahara airport, on the island of Las Palmas.

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The occupation force chased her to her family's house in Bojador, and threw the stones at the house, which injured her mother; “Minatu Mbarek”, as well as on the following day, November 20, 2020, they continued the attack and brutally beat “El Waara Khaya, for his protest against the prohibition of visitors to his family's house, among those prohibited his brother” Abd El Aziz Khay "

With these violent and unjustified practices, the force of the Moroccan occupation has violated paragraphs A and C of article 03 of the Geneva Convention for the Protection of Civilians.

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03 / the occupation police surrounded the house of the Saharawi artist "Maalinin Sidi Ibrahim Haddi"

On November 20, 2020, the Sahrawi artist "Maalainin Sidi Ibrahim Haddi" was surprised by a group of police cars that surrounded his house, the artist claimed that he was banned from attending festive events due to what his team of musical songs offers who sing about Western Sahara. For the same reason, he was prevented from entering the well-kept Bojador on July 9, 2017.

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04 / Landing and police siege in the Salam neighborhood of Agadir / Morocco:

The Salam neighborhood, where most of the Sahrawi students reside, witnessed an intense police siege since Wednesday, November 18, 2020, in the same context, a student faction that adopted a chauvinist ideology at Ibn Zohr University presented an explicit incitement against Sahrawi students because of the cause of El Guargarat.

Committee for the protection of Sahrawi Civilians

The Executive Bureau of the Collective of Sahrawi Human Rights Defenders; CODESA

Laayoune / Western Sahara on November 21, 2020

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Western Sahara : The ace up the sleeve of the Polisario Front: the thousands of refugees in the camps

The differences between the forces of the Moroccan army and the Polisario Front are abysmal. If the former have a total of 195,000 active soldiers and 150,000 more in reserve, the latter have only a total of between 6,000 and 7,000 combatants.

However, the Sahrawi armed forces have an ace up their sleeve, and the outbreak of the conflict this November has caused it to start using it: the hundreds of thousands of refugees living in camps in Tindouf, Algeria. The total population in these camps is more than 170,000 people.

This is what Fatimatu Bachir explains to ElNacional.cat, a 23-year-old Sahrawi woman who lives with her grandparents in the Auserd camp and who in her free time dedicates herself to teaching Spanish to the elderly. "There are thousands of young people who have signed up to be with the [Polisario] Front. They have already opened several military schools because many young people have left their studies and jobs. Virtually all those over the age of 18 are they have pointed. There are also girls, "he explains.

"From now on, all the military regions are mobilized. Military schools have been opened, which are being filled with people and where express training is being offered so that they can join the battlefield as soon as possible." , told EFE along the same lines a military official who preferred not to be identified for security.

The UN, disappeared in combat

Bachir justifies the need to escalate the conflict in the light of the passivity of the international community. "It is sad that in 30 years Spain, as an administrative power, and the UN have not been able to fulfill their duty," he said. "The so-called MINURSO [United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara] has done nothing to prevent the daily torture and imprisonment of Sahrawis by Morocco in the occupied territories," he criticizes.

In fact, MINURSO is the only one of the 16 UN peacekeeping missions that has never been able to enter, in its case Morocco, to analyze and examine human rights violations. "We have been very patient and we have been deceived a thousand and one times. As for Spain, we have understood that its politicians work for Mohammed VI, but it does not explain the hatred they have for us. Especially the PSOE," he said.

"In 30 years this is the first time you notice and feel that we are doing something to achieve our freedom. Both the Sahrawi people and the Polisario Front are tired of this situation and that is why we have made this decision. This war nobody wants it but it is the only way out they have left us, ”he says. For the young Sahrawi, there is only one option that would prevent war: for Spain to decolonize the territory "as Portugal did with East Timor." "Or this war will continue until we see a free Western Sahara," he said.

Elnacional.cat, 22 nov 2020

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Mauritania "expresses reservations" on the 2nd sand wall erected by Morocco

NOUAKCHOTT- Mauritania has expressed reservations about the second sand wall erected by Morocco too close to its borders in El Guerguarat, the online newspaper Zahraa Chankit reported on Sunday, which reported Nouakshott's "dissatisfaction" with this territorial expansion .

Citing sources familiar with the matter, Zahraa Chakit reveals that the Director of Security, Lieutenant General Mesgharou Ould Sidi went to EL Guerguarat to inquire about the situation on the ground and see firsthand the unilateral decisions taken by Morocco in this demilitarized zone.

According to these sources described as "very informed", General Mesgharou Ould Sidi inspected this new wall of sand, carried out too close to the Mauritanian borders, an expansion described as being a "precedent".

Zahraa Chankit evokes "reservations" by Mauritania on the unilateral approach of Morocco as well as on the presence of Moroccan military forces, stationed in Lagouira near the Mauritanian army, while this locality has been classified as a demilitarized zone for decades.

According to Moroccan Prime Minister Saad Eddine El Othmani, who spoke to Reuters, Morocco has already completed a wall of sand up to the border with Mauritania in violation of the ceasefire and the N military agreement. 1.

Last Tuesday, the British NGO for solidarity with the Saharawi people (Western Sahara campaign UK), warned against Morocco's "expansionist aims" at Cape Nouadhibou, half of which is part of the territory of Western Sahara and that none party does not control, if Rabat manages to annex El Guerguerat.

"In addition to being a new illegal confiscation of the Saharawi territory (...) such a measure would put an end to the independence of Mauritania because it would give (to Morocco) control of the second city of Nouadhibou and its mineral exports of iron, allowing Rabat to dictate the policy of Mauritania towards the Sahrawi population "as well as the transit to and from the refugee camps", alerted the NGO, in a briefing on the Moroccan military aggression in El Guerguerat in Western Sahara, entitled "why the Polisario has resumed armed operations?".

In fact, the crisis caused by Morocco in El Guerguarat in the extreme southwest of Western Sahara is at stake the extension of Moroccan drug trafficking to Libya via the Sahel, reveals the online magazine Strategika in a report. recent analysis on the resumption of the war in Western Sahara and the economic and geopolitical stakes of Morocco in the region.

According to this magazine, Libya is considered a real El Dorado for Moroccan hashish, the distribution of which is hampered by the closure of borders with Algeria. "Libya is also a point of redistribution of Moroccan drugs to Tunisia, the 'Egypt and Europe via illegal immigration in the Mediterranean.

Stratigika explains that this "issue is vital in Morocco, whose economy, swollen by aid from Gulf countries, is suffering from the global tourism crisis and a debt of around 91% of GDP".

Hence the vital importance for Morocco to open a trade route with Mauritania through the demilitarized zone (buffer). What the Polisario sees as a violation of the 1991 ceasefire agreement, Strategika notes.

The Polisario demands a date for the referendum in Western Sahara to stop the war

“We’ve always wanted to be independent for the good ones but we haven’t received anything in return,” explains one young activist

The Polisario Front immediately demands "a date" for the referendum in Western Sahara as an indispensable condition for stopping the war with Morocco, which has been a week after thirty years of ceasefire. The delegate in Catalonia of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Sakia-el-Hamra and Río de Oro, Abidin Bucharaya, has called for "serious action" by the international community to help them vote to decide their future. "We have always wanted to be independent, protesting peacefully, but we have not achieved anything," laments Nora Mulay, a young Sahrawi living in Catalonia. From the occupied territories, journalist Ahmed Ettanji warns of human rights violations by Mohamed VI's army since the ceasefire was broken, and the UN remains silent.

Both sides accuse each other of resuming hostilities and for a week now have been embarking on a confrontation of which there is little information due to difficulties in accessing the area and the media closure of the Moroccan state. "We are anxious because we do not know what will happen," says Nora, who arrived in Catalonia thanks to several cooperation projects but continues to be in contact with her family, which is divided: the closest is to the Tindouf refugee camps the other, in the territories occupied by Morocco since the Spanish state left its colony and its people in the face of the advance of Moroccan troops. His father and brother are in the liberated area, the small strip of land near Algeria that controls the Polisario. They assure her that they are only protesting and that she should not worry, but Nora fears for them and for her mother and siblings, in the refugee camp. The young woman accuses Rabat of breaking the ceasefire, although she admits that it was what the Sahrawis were "looking for". “We are happy but sad, because we have parents, siblings, cousins ​​and neighbors who are there,” he acknowledges. From relatives in the occupied territories they feel that they also go out there every night to protest and that the Moroccan police enter people's houses.

Journalist Ahmed Ettanji, from Al-Aaiun, the former capital of Spanish Western Sahara, says there is a "powerful deployment" of Moroccan military and police following the incidents at the Guerguerat border crossing. Demonstrations in the streets have resumed in recent days celebrating the "reactivation of the war," said the Sahrawi journalist, who denounced human rights violations by Moroccan authorities. “They have entered houses looking for young people for their alleged participation in the protests,” says Ahmed who sees it as an attempt to generate “fear” among the population. He even says the police search people’s cell phones. "They arrest anyone who walks down the street who is Sahrawi."

From the Polisario they say that for almost 30 years they have been trying to "contain" the population but that the "immobility" of the UN has led them to distrust that they are given a solution. According to Bucharaya, young people have grown up in a context of "despair" and "disappointment": "they no longer believe in international bodies and think that the only solution is war." "The Sahrawis are fed up with us taking away our resources," says Nora. According to her, for years young people have wanted a war and now they have seen the opportunity to fight for their cause. "It's now or never". The Polisario warns that it will be "difficult" to stop it and that it will have "consequences for the whole region". "We are ready to die for the Sahara," says his representative in Catalonia. Asked about the Sahrawi capacity in the face of the Moroccan army, Bucharaya dodges the issue and says that wars are “won with morale” and that they know the territory better. "Sahrawis have nothing to lose, but Morocco does because it has tourism and investment," Ettanji also points out.

For his part, the King of Morocco, Mohammed VI, pledged to the UN on Monday to maintain a ceasefire despite admitting that he would react "with great severity" and "self-defense" in the event of threats against the security of the United Nations. country and the stability of citizens. In the midst of reactivating the conflict, Jordan will open a consulate in Western Sahara as a show of support for Rabat. A total of 17 African states have already opened diplomatic representations since the end of 2019 in the disputed territory. The Polisario, which has Algeria as its main and almost sole ally, considers it "a violation of international law" and an "attack on the legal status of Western Sahara as a non-autonomous territory," as it means the recognition of the legitimacy of the Moroccan presence in the area. The United Nations has had a Mission for the Sahara Referendum (MINURSO) since 1991 but has never done anything. In fact, he hasn’t even had a manager at the helm for almost a year.

A spokeswoman for the UN secretary-general sent a brief statement last Friday lamenting that her efforts to prevent a ceasefire violation had failed. "The lives of Sahrawi civilians are in danger, so the application of international law is urgent," warns Ettanji. Guterres is committed to doing "everything possible" to reactivate the "political process" and ensure that MINURSO implements its mandate. For now, their efforts are focused on appointing a new head for the mission. "The appointment of this special envoy is not enough, a date must already be set in the referendum," calls for Bucharaya, who is calling for a "democratic solution" to the conflict. "Spain can take actions that allow decolonization," says Bucharaya.

Although the Polisario Front is aware of the strong Spanish-Moroccan ties, they accuse the Spanish government of acting against UN resolutions. Although Podemos has always shown its solidarity with the Sahrawi cause, its presence in the Spanish government has not changed the historical position of the state towards this former colony. In fact, in recent days Foreign Minister Arancha González Laya has avoided supporting the referendum despite multiple UN resolutions. "We do not understand the political myopia of these parties when they come to government," laments Bucharaya, who instead thanks the support of the "Catalan movement" to the Sahrawi people. Bucharaya says that resolving this conflict would have a huge "benefit" for the Spaniards. "Spain is interested in a stable North Africa and this is not possible if the conflict is not resolved," warns the Polisario, aware of the concerns of the executive for the increase in arrivals from the African continent

For the time being, the European Union has remained on the sidelines. European diplomatic sources commented this week that they did not see the situation as "serious enough". That’s why it wasn’t even discussed at the EU foreign ministers ’meeting on Thursday. "It is a mistake to think that what is happening in Western Sahara is not so serious," said the delegate to Catalonia of the Polisario Front.

For the time being, the European Union has remained on the sidelines. European diplomatic sources commented this week that they did not see the situation as "serious enough". That’s why it wasn’t even discussed at the EU foreign ministers ’meeting on Thursday. "It is a mistake to think that what is happening in Western Sahara is not so serious," said the delegate to Catalonia of the Polisario Front.

Source : Elmon.cat

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Western Sahara: what is at stake in the war that resumes after 30 years in Africa

Moroccan attack on the 13th has sparked reactions from the Saharawi people, who have been fighting for decades for self-determination

Daniel Giovanaz

"This war can last another 10, 20 years. It only ends with the referendum and the complete liberation of the territories under Moroccan occupation." 

The prognosis of human rights activist Jamaa Baih  reflects the distrust of those who have been following for years the attempts to pacify the conflict between Morocco and the Polisario Front - a movement that defends the independence of Western Sahara and the self-determination of its citizens, the Saharawis.

The referendum mentioned by the activist is precisely a consultation with the population on the independence of the territory, promised 29 years ago. “The Polisario Front no longer trusts the United Nations and will not end the war until its demands are fulfilled”, adds Baih, who is part of the Sahrawi Human Rights Defenders Collective (Codesa).

Independent from Spain since 1975, Western Sahara is in North Africa, facing the Atlantic Ocean, and borders Morocco to the north, Algeria to the east and Mauritania to the south. Since 1960, it has been on the United Nations list of non-autonomous territories.

A Moroccan attack on the so-called "Guerguerat rift" region, in the southern portion of Western Sahara, last Friday (13) , broke the ceasefire agreement signed between the Polisario Front and Morocco in 1991. As there was no reaction of the United Nations (UN) to attack, the Sahrawi declared "state of war" and return to armed struggle after nearly 30 years.

At the time of the assaults, Saharawi civilians camped out protesting the Moroccan occupation of the "rift" region, considered by the independence movements as "an illegal corridor to plunder wealth." In the face of the UN's inertia, the Saharawi People's Liberation Army (SPLA) immediately retaliated against the attacks and also bombed Moroccan bases. The numbers of dead and wounded are uncertain so far.

“The attack on Guerguerat is strategic for Morocco. Ensuring the occupation forever and imposing it as 'a reality' can be one of the intentions ”, analyzes Mahjoub Hussein Mleiha, who is part of Codesa's administrative committee. “The analysis also cannot ignore the geopolitics of the surroundings. Western Sahara is a key to stability in the region and is yet another border from Algeria to be transformed into a war zone, after Mali and Libya, ”he adds.

In the last five days, clashes, aggressions and kidnappings have  been recorded along the so-called Wall of Shame , which is 2,700 km long, was built with Israeli advice and is guarded by more than 150,000 Moroccan soldiers. A 12-year-old child was tortured by the Moroccan police.

“People are scared and want a peaceful solution. In the end, the biggest victims are civilians, ”laments Baih. "They are unarmed people, in an area of ​​Moroccan occupation, who today take to the streets peacefully with flags from the Democratic Arab Saharawi Republic and the Polisario Front because they do not want their children to continue living in the midst of so much violence."

“The only thing the Saharawi people want is an opportunity to live on their land, in peace. It is necessary to respect international law and for the United Nations and the Red Cross to protect Saharawi civilians in the occupied territories ”, adds the activist. Baih emphasizes the strategic importance of the region, which "has been used by Spain and Morocco for fishing and phosphate exploration."

Adding the Saharawis who live in areas under Moroccan occupation, in “free” zones and in refugee camps, in southeastern Algeria, the population is approaching 600,000.

Historic

For Jamaa Baih, Spain is primarily responsible for the Moroccan occupation and the current conflict. In 1975, through the Madrid Agreement, the European country handed over the administration of Western Sahara to Morocco and Mauritania. The agreement contradicted an opinion of the UN International Court of Justice.

The Polisario Front immediately declared war on its neighbors. It took 16 years and more than 10,000 deaths until the ceasefire, on September 6, 1991.

One of the truce conditions with Morocco, brokered by the United Nations was convening the following year, a referendum - which never occurred.

 

Violations

The nearly 30 years of ceasefire did not mean an end to violations of the rights of the Saharawi people. “There are countless abuses,” says Isabel Lourenço, who represents families of political prisoners at the United Nations. "People are arbitrarily detained and taken to prisons within Morocco, which is a very clear violation of international law and the Geneva Convention."

“In the occupied territories, there is a situation very similar to that of apartheid , with the forced impoverishment of the Saharawi population”, he compares. “There is segregation in schools. Saharawi children are not in different schools, as in South Africa, but they have no right to ask questions. They are called donkeys, inferiors, they hear that their mothers are prostitutes and their countries are murderers. ”

The number of “fixed” prisoners, according to Lourenço, is around 40, but varies constantly. "Those with the longest convictions belonged to a camp that was brutally destroyed in 2010, in which they claimed their social, economic and political rights, employment and housing."

“There were hundreds of arrests, tortures. Some went three years without any kind of trial, and these were sentenced in a military court, 20 years to life imprisonment, accused of attacking Moroccan authorities, without any evidence, forensic evidence, nothing like that. ”

Lourenço is the only observer who was at the two trials of political prisoners, in 2013 and 2017. “Both in one and the other, the marks of torture of the accused were visible. One of them, even during the trial, was still bleeding, and his clothes were all stained with blood ”, he recalls.

Codesa member Jamaa Baih explains why the media have difficulty covering conflicts in Western Sahara: “The military forces of the occupation are at the capital's airport [El Aiune]. In the occupied territory, they do not let international human rights organizations enter, they do not let foreign newspapers observe the situation ”, he denounces.

In Brazil

Itamaraty took a position on Wednesday (18) on the recent clashes in Western Sahara. The note does not mention the Moroccan attacks on the 13th, but calls for respect for the 1991 ceasefire.

“In the interest of peace and prosperity in the region, Brazil hopes that traffic and trade flows in the Guerguerat pass will be guaranteed in an unimpeded manner. In reiterating its support for the ongoing process within the United Nations with a view to a just and mutually acceptable solution for determining the final status of the territory of Western Sahara, the Brazilian Government rejects the use of violence and calls for respect for the ceasefire in force since 1991 ”, says the text.

Founded two years ago , the Association of Solidarity and For the Self-Determination of Western Sahara (ASAHARA) plans to hold demonstrations in front of the Embassy of Morocco in the coming days. “We are going to promote public acts, expressions of solidarity, to break the lack of knowledge about the subject”, explains former deputy Maria José Conceição, president of the Association.

Conceição met on Tuesday night (17) with the ambassador of the Polisario Front for Brazil, Emboirik Ahmed, and has received information in real time about the conflicts. The former deputy praises public demonstrations by authorities in Namibia , Zimbabwe and Algeria, in support of the Saharawi cause, and recalls that there are already movements of Algerian troops, allies of the Polisario Front in the region.

"The Polisario Front will not retreat from its position", he adds.

Mahjoub Hussein Mleiha points out that the resolution of conflicts does not depend only on the Saauarí people. "The holding of a free and fair referendum that allows the Saauarí people to exercise their right to self-determination is the only peaceful bridge for peaceful decolonization in Western Sahara", he reaffirms.

“The international community must act to see this implemented. The UN, the African Union and the European Union are all interested parties that need to act immediately to end the Moroccan occupation ”, concludes the activist.

Edition: Rodrigo Chagas

 

Source : Brasil de fato, nov 19, 2020

Western Sahara : Terror at the wedding of the President of Équipe Média

About 200 agents of Moroccan police and paramilitary forces surrounded the house and adjacent streets of Ahmed Ettanji, President of Équipe Média, in the neighbourhood of Lahohoum, in the center of El Aaiun. Ahmed Ettanji was getting married, and the police terrorised his relatives and friends and prevented guests to join his wedding and put him under house arrest, threatening him with detention and forced entry.

This repression was supposedly due to prevent COVID-19 ,but Ettanji was celebrating his wedding according to the special measures that respect the social distance as accepted internationally, and following the Moroccan rules that apply to settlers.

Similar forces surrounded the house of Nezha El Khalidi, the bride, member of Équipe Média board, and they terrified their guests and prevented others to join them although they wore masks and respected the social distance.

This blockade is one more proof of Moroccan state’s intention to target Saharawi journalists and Human Rights activists that has increased after the breach of the cease-fire by Morocco against Saharawis.

Accordingly, Équipe Média calls upon United Nations to assume its full responsibilities towards the direct threats to which Saharawi civilians, and particularly journalists and Saharawi activists are exposed to.

We call upon the French and Spanish governments as Rabat’s allies and sponsors to intervene and stop the crimes against humanity committed by the Moroccan militia and police.

We also call upon the International Red Cross, Reporters without Borders and the Committee for the Protection of Journalists to defend our journalists.

Journalism is not a crime.

Equipe Media

El Aaiun Occupied Western Sahara

November 22 2020

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Western Sahara: Gargarat breach is a violation of the ceasefire

According to Polisario representatif to Australia, Kamal Fadel, the breach opened on the moroccan berm is a violation of the ceasefire. It must be closed.

"Has the UN mission in Western Sahara MINURSO task become to protect Morocco’s interests? When MINURSO first arrived in Western Sahara in 1991 the Guerguerat crossing near the buffer strip wasn’t in existence. The strip is a violation of the ceasefire. It must be closed", he wrote in a twit.

Fadel added that "UN mission MINURSO role and raison d’être is to organise a referendum of self determination and not to protect the occupier and encourage its violations of the ceasefire terms. Guerguerat crossing is a violation of the UN Peace Plan and the 1991 agreements".

"Yesterday Saharawis citizens organised  a peaceful protest at Guerguerat calling for the closure of the illegal crossing as it is a violation of the ceasefire in Western Sahara and a source of Moroccan drug trafficking and finance for the terrorist organisations in the Sahel", he concluded.

Since Monday morning the Guerguerate border crossing (Western Sahara occupied territories/liberated territories/Buffer Zone/Mauritania) has once again been blocked by around ten Sahrawis from the liberated areas east of the moroccan military separation wall. The protesters have closed the crossing hampering commercial activities between Morocco and Mauritania, and also the moroccan drug trafficking.

The Saharawi population has blocked this crossing several times in the past year in protest against the illegal activities of the Moroccan occupier.

Morocco continues to plunder the natural resources of the ilegally occupied territories in clear violation of international law, whilst the Saharawi population is victim of forced empoversihment.

On Monday afternoon MINURSO (UN Mission for Western Sahara) sent three envoys to start talks with the group of Saharawi that are in protest.

The protesters demand that the UN «put an end to the plundering of Western Sahara’s natural resources by Morocco».

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The 15 Basic FACTS on the Conflict of Western Sahara

1. Western Sahara is a non self governing territory and a colonial country

2. The conflict of Western Sahara is a decolonisation issue

3. The United Nations recongnises Internationally the existence of the people of Western Sahara 

4. Western Sahara is composed of the indigenous people of the territory

5. The people of Western Sahara have a right to self determination 

6. The right of self determination of the people of Western Sahara is inelienable 

7. The inelienable rights of self determination of the Saharawis should be exercised by a referendum 

8. The referendum of self determination of the people of Western Sahara should be free, democratic and impartial with out any administrative or military constraints

9. The people of Western Sahara have a right to independence 

10. Spain is the administering power of Western Sahara 

11. The presence of Morocco in the major part of Western Sahara is an occupation

12. The Frente POLISARIO is the legitimate representative of the people of Western Sahara 

13. The Frente POLISARIO and Morocco are the two parties to the conflict

14. The Saharawis have legitimacy to fight for the right to self determination and independence of Western Sahara 

15. There is a responsibility of the United Nations and the African Union in the decolonisation of Western Sahara 

For God and my Country.

Ahereza Gilbert Mugumya

Ammar Belhimer: “Morocco Is a Brotherly Country But We Have Conditions Regarding The Initiative Of King Mohammed VI”

Libya’s return to the international arena and its elimination of terrorism will give a boost to the Maghreb Union, which is among the goals of the new Algeria, the Communication Minister and the government’s official spokesman, Ammar Belhimer, said in an interview with the Russian News Agency “Sputnik”.

“Libya’s return to the international arena and rid it of the scourge of terrorism will give a legitimate impetus to the Maghreb Union, which is among the ruled goals for building a new Algeria under the leadership of President Abdelmadjid Tebboune”.

“The Libyan issue concerns the Libyans alone, and the security of the Libyans is the security of Algeria, and all the efforts that bring Libyans together at one table, unite their ranks and preserve their territorial integrity. Algeria blesses and supports it”.

Regarding Algeria’s position on the King Mohammed VI initiative on resolving differences between the two countries and the possibility of real bilateral rapprochement, the minister replied that Algeria “welcomes any initiative that aimed at building and reuniting, by adopting the method of dialogue and legitimate methods in full transparency, while respecting the privacy and sovereignty of each country, without prejudice to the basic principles of Algerian diplomacy based on non-interference in the internal affairs of any country”.

Belhimer was keen to remind that “Morocco is a neighbour and brother country which has a deep historical and civilizational relationships with Algeria”.

“The two countries have a common goal by reaching the building of a unified Maghreb edifice by providing all the conditions as long as the political will of the leaders of the two countries is present and our destiny is common in light of the current challenges, especially what the world is going through due to the implications of the health crisis”.

“Algeria does not pay any attention to any attempt to disturb the atmosphere between the brotherly Moroccan and Algerian peoples, considering that the supreme goal is to mobilize energies and stimulate energy to build a strong Maghreb Union in which we protect our interests and defend our unity”.

“This endeavour is taking place in full respect of international conventions and the decisions of the international community to protect peoples and give them their right to self-determination, as is the case for the Western Sahara issue”.

Concerning the Algerian-Tunisian coordination on Libya, the government spokesman mentioned Algeria’s rejection of any external or military intervention that undermines all political efforts to restore Libya to the Libyans, explaining that the coordination that is taking place with Tunisia aims to block the entry points in front of terrorist groups that are trying to strike the stability of the region.

As for the fact that there is coordination between Algeria and Turkey regarding Libya, Belhimer mentioned that Turkey is, above all, a partner country for Algeria, especially in economic terms, with which it has strong relationships that have their roots in history, explaining that Algeria “always seeks to search for a solution to the crisis, in consultation with all countries that can present proposals in the positive direction to extricate Libya from the bleeding of war and fighting that it is experiencing”.

Regarding the ongoing conflict in the Mediterranean and the possibility that Algeria would allow its lands to be used for the benefit of foreign parties, the minister affirmed that Algeria, based on the principle of non-interference in the internal affairs of states, rejects any form of attempts to undermine national sovereignty and use the logic of force in the region under any pretext”.

“Algeria does not want to be a party to a war based on interests, hiding behind it the ambitions to separate the countries of the region under the guise of fighting terrorism, or tracking the effects of armed groups”.

Regarding the phenomenon of the growth of terrorist groups in the Sahel and Sahara, and the extent of their danger to the national security of Algeria, Belhimer confirmed that Algeria was the first country to face terrorism in the 1990s, which made it have extensive experience in combating this phenomenon that transcends countries and continents, in addition to the fieldwork of its various security services, and diplomatic efforts to contain this scourge across the world.

Regarding the reality of bilateral relationships with Russia, Belhimer explained that they are very distinguished relationships that have always been characterized by cooperation and that they are friendly, fraternal and strategic”.

Concerning the Palestinian issue, the minister mentioned again that it is one of the “constants of the foreign policy of Algeria” and that “Algeria, people and a government, supports Palestine, whether it is unjust or oppressed”.

“We support every position or initiative that serves the Palestinian authority, protects its land and rights, and renew our commitment to defend the Palestinian cause in all situations and occasions.”

Echourouk Online, Aug 26, 2020

Why Does Mohammed VI Give The Spanish King A Plot Of Land In Morocco?

The Honorary King of Spain Juan Carlos I had obtained plots of land alongside the tourist Marrakech as a gift from the King of Morocco Mohamed VI, and this was mentioned in secret records published by the Spanish website Okdiario, belonging to the currently arrested police inspector, Jose Villarejo, and the King’s german friend, Corinna Larsen, who stated in her conversation that King Juan Carlos received a gift from the King of Morocco, which is a land in Marrakech.

According to the videos shown on the website, the friend of the King of Spain cried out, “They are doing very dangerous things. The king has been given lands originally belonging to the King of Morocco, he wants me to buy them to return them to him later … The lawyer Canonica was used to study the situation. If the king does not know what he wants to do, so we cannot put ourselves in a position … What do you want me to do with a property where there is nothing but camels and desert, there is no electricity, so you must invest in security too because this country is very dangerous”, she said, referring to the Kingdom of Morocco.

The article on the website adds that while the inspector was recording the call without her knowledge, she was complaining that the former king’s aides tried to use her as a front in corruption cases related to the king’s wealth, but she refused, and Corinna Larsen said, “This land has become a poisoned gift, because it is whatever its cost, it is an arid land, which extends for about 45,000 square meters, near the Moroccan city of Marrakech, and it belongs to lands owned by the Moroccan king”.

Corinna explained that the value of the land amounts to two million euros, but the question does not relate to the price of the land, but rather it cannot be sold … How will you sell land that does not have anything? It is as if you were given a piece of desert in Saudi Arabia, a poisoned gift will cost you six times the price … it is a piece of land that is not suitable for anything, the Spanish king’s lawyer, Dante Canonica, has asked me to do this in my name”.

Lawyer Canonica and Alvaro de Orleans are being investigated, among some of the personalities surrounding the king, by the Geneva prosecutor, Yves Bertossa, for the crime of money laundering, and the Spanish justice has opened an investigation into the files of the king’s corruption, and because of the repercussions of the scandals on the reputation of the royal establishment, Spain asked the current king, Felipe VI, to take steps to get away from his father and declare that he is not guilty of all his father’s corruption files.

At a time when the Spanish government is seeking to contain the anger of the Spanish people, by asking King Felipe VI to expel his father from the Royal Palace in Madrid, and from the membership of the Spanish monarchy because of this scandal, the scandal of Mohammed VI’s extradition of Moroccan lands unfit for cultivation goes unnoticed, without anyone moving. So, Mohamed VI will increase the registration of a new scandal within his record with scandals, and he was the one who silenced and violated Moroccan regions in favour of the Spanish Kingdom.

What calls for asking questions is that the Makhzen media talked about the scandal extensively, and threw arrows of accusations against the Spanish king, ignoring the Moroccan king as he is the donor of Moroccan lands, at a time when the Moroccan people were waiting to recover the lands of Ceuta and Melilla that are occupied by Spain.

Hence, we conclude that, if the Spanish King’s German friend was not afraid to enter the prison, the game’s streaks would not have been exposed, and from it, and that what is being obscured and spent in secret from gifting lands and privileges is much more than what was exposed.

Echourouk Online, 26 juil 2020

Tags : Spain, King Juan Carlos, Morocco, Mohammed VI, Corinna Larsen,