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WEEKS 23 - 24 : 05.06.-18.06.2005 |
05.06.05
The national Secretariat, meeting to examine recent events in the
occupied zones of Western Sahara and in Morocco, "launches an urgent
appeal to the Security Council to take the situation in hand by
ensuring the protection of the Saharawi populations in distress and
by working on the revival of the decolonization process.
[SPS]
07.06.05
The municipality of Saragossa calls for the implementation of the
Baker Plan in Western Sahara.
07.06.05
The Popular Party (opposition) demands that the Spanish government
send a Senate delegation to the Saharawi refugee camps to "oversee
the results of Spanish humanitarian aid and express the support and
solidarity of the Spanish Senate with the Saharawi
people."
07.06.05
The Spanish Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Bernardino
Léon Gros, arrives in the Saharawi Republic.
Mohamed Abdelaziz receives the Spanish Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs, Bernardino Léon Gros.
Talks lasted two hours and concerned the "historic and moral
responsibility of Spain in the decolonization of Western Sahara,
which will only take place when the Saharawi people have decided
freely on its future through a referendum of self-determination",
declares M'Hamed Khadad. Léon declares to the press that
"Spain is very concerned because of the situation in the Saharawi
territory" and calls "all the parties to be calm, in order to seek a
political solution". Léon is expected on 8 June in Rabat after
a journey which took him to Algeria, SADR and Mauritania.
09.06.05
In an interview on Spanish radio's Onda Cero, Léon indicates
that his government insists on the appointment of a new special
representative of the UN Secretary General and will "ask for an
objective and truthful report from MINURSO" on the confrontations in
the month of May this year. The Spanish government asks Morocco,
"with firmness and in friendship", "to act with transparency" so that
the "media and parliamentarians can visit the zone" in complete
freedom. Morocco apparently would accept the visit of a parliamentary
delegation bringing together all political groups. Speaking of the
expulsion of a delegation of Spanish elected members from Morocco,
Léon simply says "it doesn't seem to us to be
good..."
09-11.06.05
Mhamed Khadad, member of the National Secretariat and Lamine
Yahiaoui, representative for the Nordic countries, take part in the
congress of the Finnish Social-Democratic party in
Jyväskylä. Khadad is received by the new president of the
party, Mr Eero Heinaluoma and by the Minister for Foreign Affairs,
Erkki Tuomioja. He had talks in Helsinki with the chairs of the
committee for human rights and the Maghreb and met members of the
Finnish group of solidarity with the Saharawi people. Khadad grants
an interview to the Finnish press agency (STT), taken up by seven
national and regional papers. Lamine Yahiaoui is received on 15 June
in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Estonia.
13.06.05
The Saharawi president expresses his "strong condemnation and
[his] total rejection" of the attack carried out against a
Mauritanian military garrison in Lemgheity, which he calls "an odious
terrorist act". He imparts to the Mauritanian president his "deep
solidarity with the government and the people of Mauritania".
According to official sources, a Mauritanian army unit at Lemgheyti
(630 km north east of Zouerat) was attacked on Saturday 4 June 2005
at 3.15 am by a group close to the GSPC.
Military manoeuvres named «Flint-Lock 2005», in which 300
American military personnel are participating, are taking place from
7 to 26 June in the Sahel-Sahara region. They involve eight
countries: Chad, Niger, Algeria, Mali, Senegal, Mauritania, Tunisia
and Morocco. This operation mobilises large-scale logistical and
financial resources and aims to prevent "terrorism" from taking root
in Africa.[source]
OCCUPIED TERRITORIES AND SOUTH MOROCCO
Popular
demonstrations which started on 21 May, have continued in El Ayoun
and Dakhla. Police control has become more marked, with brutal
arrests, torture, intimidations and beatings up of demonstrators. A
new aspect, police do not hesitate to attack human rights defenders
directly. Despite the media blockade put in place by Morocco and the
turning back of two delegations of Spanish parliamentarians, news is
circulating and some reports have been
published:[Le
Nouvel Observateur , 06.06.05
- AFP
, 09.06.05 en Sahara-Info -
Tel
Quel No 179
]
[El Periodico, 01.06.05 : en
PDF
- ABC, 02.06.06 en Sahara-
Info
- La
Vanguardia, 04.06.05
- ABC,
13.06.05 en Sahara-Info
- El
Periodico, 13.06.05
- El
Pais, 12.06.05
]
The events in Western Sahara continue to give rise to a widespread response not only in Spain, but also in France, Italy, Switzerland, Germany etc. MINURSO is preparing a report. The United Nations Secretary General, Kofi Annan raised the question of Western Sahara in Paris on 14 June with the French President Jacque Chirac.
The Saharawi President sent another letter to the Security Council, he wrote to the Presidents of the African Union and its Commission as well as to the European Union. Interventions at various levels (regional Spanish parliaments, political and parliamentary parties of various countries, solidarity associations, political officials, popular demonstrations in Spain, Italy, France, etc) ask for the end of the repression, respect for human rights and access to the territory. The Spanish government remains ambiguous, it proclaims its desire to mediate and multiplies diplomatic initiatives, but adopts a very conciliatory attitude towards Morocco.
Rabat, on the
defensive, cancels the visit of the Algerian Prime Minister to
Morocco, declaring that this "proves, for the moment, to be
inopportune".
In Western Sahara, the governor of Smara puts pressure on the shioukh
from all the tribes to condemn the demonstrations.
In Morocco, the signatories of a "Citizen's Appeal" targeted at public opinion, underline the necessity of opposing those who would "attack the democratic process in Morocco" among them the Saharawi independence movement. The Moroccan socialist youth creates a civil network for the defense of territorial integrity. Demonstrations are organised outside Algerian embassies in Spain and France.
It being impossible to report all the events relating to the resistance in the occupied territories, we attempt to offer a chronology, inevitably incomplete. [>>see also the special page posted in French, English and Spanish ]
05.06.05,
Spanish delegation turned back
A delegation of elected members and NGO representatives from the
community in Madrid, who wanted to undertake a mission of observation
to Western Sahara, is not authorised to disembark from the aeroplane
in El Ayoun airport. The plane is surrounded by police. The
delegation had informed both Spanish and Moroccan Ministries of
Foreign Affairs, as well as the Moroccan Embassy in Spain about this
observation mission.
The Presidents of the State Coordination of solidarity associations
with the Sahara, CEAS, José Taboada, calls on "the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs to intercede with the Moroccan authorities in order
allow [them] to get out of the aeroplane and move freely
around El Ayoun, to be able to talk with MINURSO, with Saharawi
organisations, with the Wali of El Ayoun." "Spain, as administrative
power of the territory has, and continues to have, a historic
responsibility towards Western Sahara, so long as the process of
decolonization has not been finished and it cannot remain immobile or
silent in the face of these facts", declares Taboada.
The mayor of San Fernando de Henares, city councillors from Madrid,
Fuenlabrada, Torrejón d'Ardoz, etc., the president of
CEAS-SAHARA, the president of the Spanish Human Rights League and the
Vice-President of FEDISSAH figure among the members of this
mission. [français]
[espanol]
05.06.05,
Marrakech
Three Saharawi citizens, Asfari Khadad Haddi, Laaroussi Mustapha,
Hamia Brahim, abducted in Marrakech by DST elements (Department of
Territorial Security), on 25 May 2005, [see
communiqué of
AFAPREDESA] are released after several days of illegal
incarceration in a centre in Casablanca.
05.06.05
The daily of the Moroccan socialist party, Al Bayane calls on the
Moroccan authorities to refuse re-entry to Ali Salem Tamek who
is in Spain.
06.06.05,
Reactions
The Polisario Front condemns the turning back of the Spanish
delegation and expresses its disappointment at the attitude of the
Spanish government. It asks European governments to apply pressure to
allow visits to Western Sahara.
06.06.05
Letter to the Ambassador of Morocco in France from Nicole Borvo
Cohen-Seat, Senator, councillor of
Paris.[letter]
07-11.06.05
The XVIth Congress of the International Association of Democrat
Lawyers, held in Paris, reaffirms its firm commitment with the
Saharawi people and underlines the importance for the Maghreb region
of the peaceful resolution of the conflict in Western Sahara. It
calls on the UN, the Security Council and the Secretary General to
bring the decolonization process in Western Sahara to a successful
end in accordance with international law.
[résolution
]
08.06.05
The Coordinator of the Federation of State Institutions in solidarity
with Western Sahara (FEDISSAH), Txomin Aurrekoetxea (Basque National
Party), accuses Spain and the UN "of betraying the Saharawi people",
by their incapacity to complete the decolonization process.
[SPS]
08.06.05,
Another explulsion
The Moroccan authorities expell, in El Ayoun airport, a second
delegation of Spanish elected members, who had the intention of
observing the human rights situation on the ground. Made up of the
national parliamentary member Joan Herrera, Catalan MPs Albert
Batalla, Rafael López and Jordi Castells, the delegation also
includes two members of the Catalan Association of friends of the
Saharawi people and several Spanish journalists. The Catalan MPs
protest to the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs about the "lack of
protection". They ask the government to lodge a formal complaint,
which it has never done.
08.06.05
The President of EUCOCO, Pierre Galand sends a letter to Kofi Annan.
[letter]
08.06.05
Mohamed Abdelaziz writes to the European Union (letters to Madame
Benita Ferrero-Waldner, External Relations commissioner and European
neighbourhood policy, to Josep Borrell Fontelles, President of the
European Parliament, to Jean-Claude Juncker, to the Prime Minister of
Luxembourg and to the President of the European Council)
[letter]
08.06.05
Ali Salem Tamek writes to members of the European Parliament.
[letter]
http://www.arso.org/intifadaTamek080605.htm
08.06.05,
EU
The European parliamentary intergroup, "Peace for the Saharawi
people" asks in a statement for free access to Western Sahara, the
right to demonstrate and the release of detainees and the setting up
of a mission of observation of European parliamentarians and human
rights experts from the EU.[Declaration
from
the Intergroup "Friends of the Saharawi People" of the European
Parlament, 08.06.05]
08.06.05,
Paris
The Platform of Solidarity with the Saharawi People, bringing
together youth and community education associations, committees of
support and twinning and representatives of towns with friendship
arrangements with the Saharawi people, denounces the repression and
appeals to the French authorities to take on their
responsiblities.[texte]
09.06.05,
Spain
The president of CEAS (State Coordination of solidarity associations
with the Sahara), José Taboada, asks for his organisation to
be allowed to participate in the mission which members of the
Congress and the Senate are due to undertake in the occupied
territories of Western Sahara. A similar demand is made by Spanish
writers in a letter to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. The visit of
a delegation to the Spanish parliament had been convened at the time
of the meeting held on 6 June last in Madrid between the head of
Spanish diplomacy, Miguel Angel Moratinos and the Moroccan Minister
for Foreign Affairs, Mohamed Benaissa.
The Popular Party (PP, opposition) and Izquierda Unida (one of the political allies of the socialist government in the Parliament) announced that they will not take part in this mission, because, according to them, the conditions of the visit to Western Sahara have been fixed, they allege, by Morocco. The date of this visit turns out to be further and further away.
10.06.05,
Germany
The Social-Democrat party takes a stand: Sorge um die politische Lage
in der Westsahara, Pressemitteilung
SPD-Bundestagsfraktion.[text]
10.06.05,
Protest
The families of persons imprisoned following the recent riots, who
have been forbidden to visit their relatives in the Black Prison of
El Ayoun since 7 June, gather from 16.00 to 18.00 on Smara Boulevard.
Human rights defenders, the president of the local section of AMDH as
well as numerous sympathisers associate themselves with the
demonstration. The forces of order hermetically seal off and isolate
the demonstrators, who are chanting slogans in favour of the
liberation of prisoners, of self-determination in the Sahara and
denounce the arbitrary trials being prepared. Two Spanish journalists
are prevented from getting close to the demonstrators.
10.06.05,
Boujdour
Maaras Abderrahman is arrested in Boujdour by plain clothes
policemen, who deport him to Morocco telling him that it is forbidden
for him to stay in Western Sahara. Maaras has been summoned twice
and tortured the first time he was arrested.
11.06.05,
Dakhla
A meeting is organised to call for the liberation of a Saharawi woman
aged 70 years, Ehel Najem Fatma, called Laribiya, abducted the date
before by the Moroccan police, suspected to have cared for the
wounded in her home. The same evening, a second demonstration, in
solidarity with the detainees of the intifada of last May is brutally
dispersed by the forces of rapid reaction and the police. The
demonstrators brandish Saharawi national colours, chant slogans
calling for the departure of the Moroccan coloniser and shout "Long
live the Liberation Front of Saguia el Hamra and Rio de Oro", "Long
live the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic", "Long live Abdelaziz".
The confrontations create several victims among the demonstrators and
the police forces. The town is in a state of siege, no gathering is
permitted, the areas of Lebrarik, Lebeichat, Kseikssat, Oum Tounsi
and Al Ghoufran, with a Saharawi majority population are under tight
control by the forces of occupation, who check all passers-by and
start arresting people, including Mohammed Bassir, Ahmed Karama, Said
ould Lmahjoub. The police from Dakhla headquarters insult and torture
the detainees before letting them go the next morning. The car of the
president of the Saharawi committee against torture in Dakhla, Lmami
Aâmar Salem, is towed away to a pound in order to limit the
activities of its owner.
11.06.05, El
Ayoun
A GUS group arrests two Saharawi citizens, Elmahfoud Dahou, Saharawi
former political detainee and member of the Forum of Truth and
Justice dissolved by judicial decision, and Dahi Moulay
Ahmed.
11.06.05,
Algiers
The president of the Saharawi Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz, speaking
in a forum at the paper Al-Bilad organised by the International Press
Centre, calls the situation in the occupied territories of Western
Sahara "explosive" and affirms that "peaceful resistence" will
continue to obtain the holding of a referendum of self-determination.
He calls on the UN Secretary General to appoint a new Personal Envoy
for Western Sahara, as a replacement for James Baker. Mr Abdelaziz
also asks Mr Annan to fill the post of Special Representative for
Western Sahara.
In response to a question Mr Abdelaziz declares that as a token of
good will, the Polisario would continue releasing some 450 Moroccan
prisoners of war which it still holds, without fixing a timetable,
while requesting the release of 150 Saharawi prisoners of war held in
Morocco as well as over 500 civilian "disappeared".
[Polisario
calls for peaceful solution for
W.Sahara
Reuters 11.06.05]
11.06.05,
Valencia
About a hundred people meet to honour the memory of disappeared
Saharawis (9 June has been designated "Day of the Saharawi
disappeared") and to denounce the repression in the occupied
territories.
12.06.05,
Serious injury
Police from GUS (urban security group) attempt to arrest Lafghraoui
(Elfoukraoui) Sidi Ahmed Taleb, a Saharawi citizen aged 19 years,
resident in Daddach Street, Maâtalla district in El Ayoun. He
takes flight, pursued by the police up to the roof of a three floor
building and they throw him off the roof. According to a medical
report of 13.06.05 he is suffering from several fractures
(dislocation-fracture of the right wrist, dislocation-fracture of the
right ankle, a splintered fracture of the left heel, fracture to
vertebra L4, cranial trauma. Incapacity to work for 120 days.) Family
visits are forbidden. The doctors are claiming from the family the
sum of 1500 euros to treat him, although he is there as a prisoner.
Human rights activists launch an appeal for help.
[corr.]
12.06.05
The President of the Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz, writes a second
time to the Security Council to ask it to protect the Saharawi
population in the occupied territories of Western Sahara against
Moroccan repression.
13.06.05, El
Ayoun
The Moroccan authorities proceed to the destruction of several dozen
makeshift houses where Saharawi families are living. A Saharawi
citizen, Najiaa Nafaa, called Said, known for his engagement in human
rights causes, is summoned and tortured because he refuses to leave
his house in the shanty town of Lamsalla camp.
13.06.05,
Dakhla
Several arrests of activists for several hours and threats to
participants in the demonstration of 11 June.
13.06.05,
Switzerland
Under the title "Do not forget the Saharawis", a parliamentarian,
Anne-Catherine Ménétrey-Savary, president of the Swiss
parliamentary intergroup «Sahara Occidental», draws the
attention of the government to the wave of repression by the Moroccan
government of Saharawi citizens in the occupied territories of
Western Sahara. In its response, the Federal Council (government)
says it is "preoccupied by the recent demonstration of violence in
Western Sahara". [text]
14.06.05,
Marrakech
Eleven Saharawi students released on bail are called before the
examining magistrate, who dismisses all charges and releases them.
Two students still in prison, Baiba Moulay Baba and Mahmoud Abbah,
are released provisionally.
14.06.05,
Rome
A demonstration outside the seat of the Italian Parliament organised
by the National Association of Solidarity with the Saharawi People,
protests "against the ferocious repression of the Moroccan
police".
14.06.05,
PSF
Statement from the international secretary of the French Socialist
Party (Parti socialiste français) [text]
14.06.05, El
Ayoun
Security forces are massively deployed in order to prevent the
holding of a sit-in of protest at the injuries inflicted on
Lafghraoui (Elfoukraoui). Hardly had they assembled, but the
demonstrators are violently dispersed and the area sealed
off.
15.06.05, El
Ayoun
Hassan Al Hairach, 18 years, appears before the court of appeal,
accused of creating a criminal gang, placing obstacles on the public
highway, violence to officials in the exercise of their duties with
premeditation, use of arms, participation in armed gatherings,
destruction of the Moroccan flag, etc. Hassan had already been
arrested on 25 May at midnight, following demonstrations for the
right to self-determination, in his home, without a warrant. Taken to
the criminal investigation police station, he was subjected to all
sorts of physical and psychological torture. He suffered fractures of
the nose, the left shoulder, two wounds to his scalp and lumbar
trauma, requiring 21 days in hospital. Incapacity to work for 40
days. Sentence on 22 June.
15.06.05,
Black Prison of El Ayoun
28 Saharawi political detainees start a hunger strike of 48 hours to
protest at their conditions of detention and for the respect of penal
procedures. Before presenting them to the examining magistrate, the
Moroccan authorities take them to the police station to threaten them
and demand false declarations.
15.06.05, El
Ayoun
Dozens of young Saharawis assemble outside the house of Elfoukraoui
Sidi Ahmed Taleb (Lafghraoui). The police arrest two
people.
15.06.05,
Boujdour
Distribution at night of Saharawi flags and leaflets asking for
the withdrawal of Moroccan occupation forces.
15.06.05,
Marrakech
Imprisonment of a pupil, Edaagui Mohamed, accused of questioning the
territorial integrity of Morocco. Sentence on 22 June.
15.06.05,
Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Demonstration outside the Canaries parliament.
15.06.05,
Italy
Several Italian MPs and senators demand of their government to work
for the intervention of the UN in the "protection" of the Saharawis
"subjected to repression and human rights abuses" in Western Sahara
perpetrated by Moroccan colonialism.
16.06.05, Reporters without Borders denounces the conditions of work for journalists in Western Sahara: «Journalists working in Western Sahara face assaults, arrests and harassment,» Reporters Without Borders, 16.06.05
17.06.05, El
Ayoun
In the morning a demonstration takes place in the Inach quarter, on
the edge of the Maatalla quarter, on the occasion of the anniversary
of the Zemla massacre. (On 17 June 1970 the Spanish Legion bloodily
repressed an independence demonstration.) Demonstrators carry photos
of El Wali Mustapha Sayed and chant slogans for independence. The GUS
(urban security groups) disperse the demonstration with
brutality.
In the evening another demonstration of human rights defenders is
brutally attacked. Elidri Houcine, a human rights defender, Aminatou
Haidar and Fatma Ayach, two former disappeared and political
prisoners are savagely beaten up. Lahoussine Moutik, president of the
former Sahara branch of the Forum for Truth and Justice, member of
AMDH, who was trying to visit some victims, was prevented and
savagely attacked by GUS agents in front of doctors and nurses. The
same happened to Hmad Hammad, a Saharawi human rights activist, who
is seriously injured and is recovering at home.
The latest news (18.06.05) is that Aminatou Haidar has been
transferred to the criminal justice hospital, she has been arrested.
The police try to arrest Bazeid Salek, he succeeded in escaping.
Human rights activists, Moussamih Baba, Moussawi Ahmed, Sbaï
Ahmed and Karroum Hamdi are all reported to be under arrest as
well.
17.06.05,
Switzerland
25 Swiss parliamentarians, including the president of the parliament,
issue a declaration asking Switzerland to contribute to the setting
up of an international commission of inquiry charged with
establishing the truth on the repression which is being unleashed on
the occupied Saharawi territories; to the appointment of a
special rapporteur on the human rights situation in the territories
of Western Sahara; to the opening of Saharawi territory to the
international media and the implementation of UN Security Council
resolution 1495, according to which a plan for the self-determination
of the Saharawi people must be put in place.
[text]
19.06.05:
A parliamentary delegation from the Asturias travels to El Ayoun on
Sunday 19. They are expelled by Moroccan authorities like others
before.
18.06.05
The head of the CDU/CSU fraction in the German parliament considers
in a declaration that the situation in Western Sahara is "extremely
grave". A peaceful solution of the question of the Sahara is urgent.
The UN Secretary General must immediately appoint a new special
representative, to show the Saharawi people that bringing about their
self-determination is still in the interests of the international
community. [SPS]
25.05.05
Twenty-five American parliamentarians from the Senate and Congress
&endash; both Republican and Democrat &endash; express their concerns
in a letter to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Condoleeza
Rice, about the "persistence" of the conflict in Western Sahara,
considering that the successive delays in this consultation promote
"discord between the north African countries" and could lead to
"instability in the region" (...) "and consequently threaten the
interests of the USA".
03-04.06.05.
Seminar in Madrid entitled "Solutions for the Sahara &endash; Western
Sahara in the dynamic geopolitics of the Maghreb", organised by the
European Institute of the Mediterranean (IEMed) and coordinated by
Professor Antoni Segura. The meeting, inspired by the government but
in which Moroccan and Saharawi political officers did not
participate, proposes to create an international working group to
serve as mediation between Morocco and the Polisario Front, in order
to unblock the present situation in the region.
08.06.05
UN 4th Commission: Intervention of Mouloud Said, Polisario Front
representative in the USA. [Special Committee on
Decolonization,
Press Release GA/COL/3120
08.06.05]
06.06.05
After examining the activities of Kerr McGee in Western Sahara, the
ethical council of the Norwegian Oil Fund concluded that the US firm
does not meet the criteria required by the fund. The central bank of
Norway was informed on 29 April of this decision and all stocks and
bonds were sold. At the end of 2004 the placement of funds in the KMG
Corporation represented a value of around 337 million NOK [that
is approx 52 million USD]. [>>
more info,
medias etc]
12.06.05
In a statement, the Canaries group "Unidad del Pueblo" calls the
negotiations between Morocco and Spain to delimit the territorial
waters between the Canary Islands and Morocco an "intolerable act of
colonialism". According to the text, two countries reached a secret
agreement on 26 October 2004, which would leave the control of oil
exploitation of the region in Moroccan hands, thus violating the UN
resolutions on Western Sahara.
17.06.05,
World Day of the fight against desertification and drought
Joint statement by the Friends of the Saharawi people of Germany
(Gesellschaft der Freunde des sahrauischen Volkes) and Critical
Ecology (Kritische Ökologie) on the occasion of the World Day of
the fight against desertification and drought and the anniversary of
the Zemla massacre [résumé
fr arso]
[Gemeinsame
Pressemitteilung
der Gesellschaft der Freunde des sahrauischen Volkes (GFSV) e.V. und
der Kritischen Ökologie (ifak) e.V. [Stärke des
Rechts] anlässlich des internationalen Tages der
Wüstenbekämpfung]
04.06.05
Ali Salem Tamek in Spain
The Saharawi human rights activist, president of the "Committee of
support to victims of repression", continues his tour in Spain. After
Maresme in Catalonia, he is received by the mayor of Malaga, the
president of the parliament of Andalusia and the intergroup "Peace
for the Saharawi People". He speaks to 300 people on human rights in
Western Sahara. In Seville, he received the 3rd Juan Antonio
González Caraballo prize, awarded in the name of an Andalusian
doctor who died in December 2001 during a visit to the Saharawi
refugee camps. [Coordinadora
Maresme amb el Sàhara ,04.06.05]
[Parlamento
de Andalucía,
07.06.05] [Alcalde
de Málaga Francisco de la
Torre
07.06.05] [IIIe
prix Juan Antonio González
Caraballo,
08.06.05] [Conférence
à Malaga,
09.06.05]
16-18.06.05
Barcelona Mediterranean Social Forum
A seminar is devoted to the question of Western Sahara, with the
participation of Pierre Galand, Carmelo Ramírez, Felipe
Briones, Mohamed Sidati and Fatma El Mehdi. A second seminar is
concerned on the condition of Saharawi women with Souelma Mohamed
Kaid Salem and Selma Mint Ballahi, while Ali Salem Tamek takes part
in a seminar on "the movement of international youth and the conflict
in the Sahara". A demonstration of solidarity with the Saharawi
people is programmed for the late afternoon of 18 June in the centre
of Barcelona by the pro-Saharawi solidarity movement.
07.06.05, La
poesía en la resistencia del pueblo saharaui
Mohamed Ali Ali Salem, exponente de la generación de poetas
saharauis en el exilio y actual representante de la cultura saharaui
en el Estado español, ofreció en Barcelona, una charla
sobre la trayectoria e influencias de la poesía saharaui en el
exilio. Descargar el rincón de poesía de Hoy por hoy de
Iñaqui Gabilondo en la Cadena SER. El poeta
saharaui Limam Boicha recita sus poemas acompañado de la
poetisa Ana Rossetti, del grupo de Escritores por el Sahara
[text]
16-18.06.05,
Barcelona
An exhibition of the works of the Saharawi painter Fadili on the Wall
of Shame, the exile, the war and the Green March takes place during
the Mediterranean Social Forum in Barcelona.
09.06.05,
AUSTRALIA
Day of the Martyrs
On 9 June a meeting was held in Melbourne to constitute the first
branch of the Australia Western Sahara Association (AWSA) in the
state of Victoria. The Australia-Western Sahara Association was
formed in 1999 when the Polisario first sent a representative to
Sydney. The day of the martyrs was also marked by remembering the
Saharawis suffering at the hands of the Moroccan occupying forces
since 22 May. The meeting called on Australia to ask Morocco to allow
international observers to El Ayoun and on the African Union to play
a more forceful role with the UN in implementing the Baker peace
plan. [News
Release]
08-10.06.05
Mujeres en zonas de conflicto, Jornadas de solidaridad Sahara,
Palestina, Colombia, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria: Zahra Ramdan,
responsable de relaciones Exteriores de la Unión Nacional de
Mujeres Saharauis. [mas]
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Polisario ratchets up oil pressure, Ian Esau, Upstream, 19.05.05.
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