The Saharawi Council of Ministers condemned the repressive practices of the Moroccan colonial authorities in Dakhla where indigenous people recorded recently more dead, dozens injured, while a number of their homes and their vehicles were ransacked and destroyed. In the statement released after the meeting last Saturday, the body calls for the lifting of the Sahrawi media blackout imposed on the city since the tragedy and underlines the need for urgent intervention of the UN to ensure the protection of the Sahrawi population.
The statement also calls for the release the prisoner Mohamed Yahya Al Hafed and other Sahrawi prisoners in the jails of the king. But Al-Yahya Mohamed Hafed is Gilad Shalit. We do not talk in the newspapers of the kingdom or ruling in the capital. Dakhla is not Tel Aviv and there is therefore no need to return to the last deadly rat hunts quietly done behind closed doors in the walls of the former Villa Cisneros. Oddly, the international community does not condemn the killing, she is quick to react when a tomato or an egg are sent to one of their Camat. As if the Moroccan settlers and Makhzen had every right, every right to violate with impunity human rights …