Rabat takes the question of Western Sahara a hook to dismiss Moroccans’ attention from real country difficulties
Shaheed Al Hafed (refugee camps), Oct 7, 2011 (SPS) - In its communiqué following speech of the Moroccan king addressed Sunday night, the Saharawi government noted that Rabat takes the question of Western Sahara “a hook to dismiss attention of the Moroccan public opinion from the real problems and difficulties of the Country.”
The communiqué recalled that the tragedy experienced by the Saharawi refugees since 36 years is exclusively a result of unjust Moroccan military invasion caused their displacement and fled under a hail bombing by the internationally forbidden bombs of napalm and phosphorus.”
The Moroccan government, according to the testimony of competent international organizations including the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, has and still committed gross and escalating human rights violations against the defenseless Saharawi citizens in the occupied territories of Western Sahara, most prominent the brutal military interventions in Gdeim Izik November 2010 and occupied Dakhla on February and September 2011, it indicated.
“The inclusion of Western Sahara in what so-called advanced regionalization is falsification and fallacy,” said the statement, adding that this regionalization “is purely a Moroccan internal affair, does not interest the Saharawis, and no more an attempt to circumvent the legal status of the Territory as an international zone awaiting referendum on self-determination.”
In its response to the Moroccan King speech, the Saharawi government noted that Rabat takes the Saharawi cause as “a hook to dismiss eyes of the Moroccan public opinion from the real internal problem of the Country.”
“As what has happened since 1975, Morocco takes the question of Western Sahara as a hook to hang its crisis, taking it this time to dismiss attention of the Moroccan public opinion from real problems and difficulties of the Moroccan citizens on the horizon of the elections scheduled on November 25,” underlined the communiqué. (SPS)
The communiqué recalled that the tragedy experienced by the Saharawi refugees since 36 years is exclusively a result of unjust Moroccan military invasion caused their displacement and fled under a hail bombing by the internationally forbidden bombs of napalm and phosphorus.”
The Moroccan government, according to the testimony of competent international organizations including the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, has and still committed gross and escalating human rights violations against the defenseless Saharawi citizens in the occupied territories of Western Sahara, most prominent the brutal military interventions in Gdeim Izik November 2010 and occupied Dakhla on February and September 2011, it indicated.
“The inclusion of Western Sahara in what so-called advanced regionalization is falsification and fallacy,” said the statement, adding that this regionalization “is purely a Moroccan internal affair, does not interest the Saharawis, and no more an attempt to circumvent the legal status of the Territory as an international zone awaiting referendum on self-determination.”
In its response to the Moroccan King speech, the Saharawi government noted that Rabat takes the Saharawi cause as “a hook to dismiss eyes of the Moroccan public opinion from the real internal problem of the Country.”
“As what has happened since 1975, Morocco takes the question of Western Sahara as a hook to hang its crisis, taking it this time to dismiss attention of the Moroccan public opinion from real problems and difficulties of the Moroccan citizens on the horizon of the elections scheduled on November 25,” underlined the communiqué. (SPS)
