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23.12.96
"The Sahara is Moroccan"
Ahmed Alaoui, King's councelor, who declared in early December that
Hassan II offers a regional autonomy to the Polisario Front in the
frame of the regionalization project, underlines in an editorial of
his newspaper LE MATIN DU SAHARA ET DU MAGHREB that the referendum in
Western Sahara is unwarranted and the UN, definitively unable to
organize it, are removed of the dossier, definitively closed on
international level. It is the first time a Moroccan responsible of
high level denies frankly the authority of the UN respect to the
Western Sahara conflict. The editorials of Ahmed Alaoui are
considered as unofficial declarations of the royal court.
27.12.96
Colonization
The Moroccan State will offer 20,000 houses to about 100,000 people
living in W.S., in camps named "Unity", since the cease-fire of 1991.
One thousand houses were distributed recently at El Ayun. Those
people coming from Morocco were settled in tent camps near the cities
of Dakhla, El Ayun, Boujdour and Smara five years ago in order to
participate as "Sahrawis" to the referendum. This "Second Green
March" caused the resignation at the end of 1991 of Ambassador J.
Manz as Special UN Representative for W.S. (he denounced the
manipulation of the referendum and named it a "civil violation of the
cease-fire").
Because of the bad conditions of these people, Morocco had to
implement this big project, financed by the National Promotion,
declared the news agency AFP. 34,000 individuals living in the camps
of El Ayun will be lodged soon in 5,000 economic flats. The granting
of flats to these persons is a "reward for their patriotism and their
indefectible attachment to Morocco" concluds the dispatch.
27.12.96
International Convention against Torture
The Moroccan human rights organisation OMDH asks for the integration
of this Convention, recently signed by Morocco, in the laws of the
country.
Frank Cass publications: Several new journals issued in 1996 about the Mediterranean Region and the Arab World including Western Sahara. For more informations visit the Internet site : <http://www.frankcass.com>
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