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22.12.97
A.I. urgent action
Amnesty International started an urgent action in favour of
Abderrahman Brahim Atman and Mohamed El Yaddassia, who are reported
to have "disappeared" after being arrested on 10 December 1997 in Bir
Gandouz, in the south of Western Sahara, by members of the Moroccan
security forces (as announced by AFAPREDESA last week). Amnesty
International fears they may be facing torture or ill-treatment in
secret detention. The two men were reportedly arrested for their
support of the Polisario Front. The human rights organization appeals
to its members to write to the Moroccan authorities.
24.12.97
Identification
According to Moroccan sources the Polisario observers in the
identification centers of Tan-Tan and El Ayoun opposed the
registration of the applicants of the Ait Lahsen tribe. In a press
release members of this tribe denounced what they call "a serious
discrimination against all other Sahrawi tribes"...
(MAP)
27.12.97
New UN Special Representative for W.S.
Charles F. Dunbar, a retired US American foreign service officer,
will serve as U.N. special representative for the Western Sahara.
President of the Cleveland Council on World Affairs, Middle East
expert, Dunbar was ambassador to Afghanistan, Qatar and Yemen as well
as special assistant on Afghanistan affairs in the State Department.
Earlier he has also been posted at U.S. embassies in Tehran, Algiers,
Rabat and Nouakchott and speaks French, Arabic and Farsi. Since 1993
he is President of the Cleveland
Council on World Affairs.
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