The situation of human rights in the occupied territories of SADR is most deplorable. Morocco continues its repression with impunity in the city of Sahrawi Dakhla, ignoring international law and defying the UN MINURSO.
The Saharawi President, Mohamed Abdelaziz, highlighted “the climate of terror and intimidation” and campaigns of harassment and persecution of Saharawi citizens in the occupied city of Dakhla. In a letter to the Secretary General of the UN, the Saharawi president said that “these practices have created a climate of terror among the defenseless Saharawi citizens including children, women and elderly people and families in general of the Saharawi is the deployment of significant military and police. “
“The Moroccan authorities have arrested since 25 September more than 100 Sahrawi” noting that “20 of them are allocated to the prisons of the cities of Dakhla and El Ayoun occupied,” said President Abdelaziz in its letter published by the Sahrawi Press Agency (SPS). These developments, he said, “occur in a territory which is under the direct responsibility of the UN and in the presence of MINURSO.”
The Polisario Front has asked the UN to intervene quickly to protect Saharawi civilians and put an end to this tragedy that has lasted 36 years, Saharawi president said, adding “these developments demonstrate the need to find a mechanism that allows the UN MINURSO protect human rights in the region.” In this context, President Abdelaziz reiterated his call for quick action to put an end to this tragic situation due to the practices of the Moroccan military occupation illegal and incessant attacks since its invasion of Western Sahara October 31, 1975. He also sought the intervention of the new Secretary General of the UN for the release of all Saharawi political detainees incarcerated following the Moroccan aggression that targeted the occupied city of Dakhla, simply for being attached to their claims their legitimate rights to freedom, dignity, self-determination and independence.
Faced with the resurgence of the situation and the lack of journalists and independent international observers, the Saharawi president called on the UN to work towards “lifting the blockade imposed on military and security to the city Sahrawi occupied cessation campaigns, raids, abductions and arrests and sending an international mission to investigate the savage aggression against the Moroccan Saharawi civilians defenseless. “
In addition, several states to the UN reaffirmed their strong support for the right the determination of the people of Western Sahara, by supporting the efforts of the Personal Envoy of the Secretary General of the UN, Christopher Ross.