2010年11月24日水曜日

Morocco shows empty morgue to deny the Polisario

El conflicto del Sáhara

Rabat muestra depósitos de cadáveres vacíos para desmentir al Polisario

Marruecos niega que murieran 36 personas en el asalto al campamento de El Aaiún.- El gobernador asegura que la policía no usó armas de fuego

TOMÁS BÁRBULO | El Aaiún 21/11/2010
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The Sahara conflictRabat shows empty morgue to deny the PolisarioMorocco denies that killed 36 people in the assault on the camp of El Aaiun .- The governor says that the police did not use firearms
Barbula THOMAS | Laayoune 21/11/2010
Izik Agdaym camp, whose eviction by Moroccan security forces unleashed a tragedy just 13 days ago, is today a huge scree in which only a trace of the disaster. The excavators have ironing the ground and several trucks remove the last traces they left behind the 20,000 Sahrawi concentrated there to demand social improvements plastic bags, water bottles and organic waste flown by an army of flies. The only clue to what happened is the huge makeshift gendarmerie camp half a mile of the place.
Izik Agdaym is 16 miles from Laayoune. An order from the governor of the region can cross the four checks made in that short stretch of road linking the city to Smara. The governor, and with it the authority of the Ministry of Interior of Morocco, they struggled on Sunday to the special envoys of the Spanish press could enter that place where there is nothing to see.
It also called on journalists to give his version of events that ended in a pitched battle in the camp and in the streets of the capital of Western Sahara. The governor, Mohamed Jelmouss, appeared in company with the chief of police in Laayoune, Dkhissi Mohamed. Sitting in the main hall of the residence until 35 years ago was the home of the Spanish military governors, Jelmouss explained that the assault on the camp was conducted by a force of 3,000 riot (composed of gendarmes, and police auxiliary forces) that only used batons, shields, water cannons and tear gas. "Not this morning at the camp, or in the evening, on the streets of Laayoune, the police used firearms," he said flatly. "From the beginning we decided that there were no civilian casualties. We knew that among the Saharawi were criminals and they had knives, but we would not face players. What we found was a protest organized by the Frente Polisario and Algeria. "
The governor wanted to make clear that the information released by the Polisario Front in the sense that there were 36 corpses in hospital morgues in Laayoune are false. To do this, ordered that journalists have access to deposits of hospitals. The regional health director, Dr. Mohamed Bouhmya, led the civil hospital visit Moulay Hassan Ben el Mehdi. There, an officer opened the eight drawers oxidized, only one was occupied. The body belonged to Babi Buyema Hamadi, the Saharawi Spanish nationality who died hit by a military vehicle, by the way, according to the Polisario, and accidentally, according to Moroccan authorities. The body remains in the morgue because the family refuses to bury him up to clarify the circumstances of death.
The doctor said Bouhmya November 8, the day of the riots, the hospital took in 53 wounded by stones and knives, 10 were members of the security forces and the rest civilians.
In the military hospital, the six morgue drawers were empty. Its director, Dr. Ismaeli Hassan, said that the day of the riots received 275 wounded, of whom 255 were policemen who had been attacked with stones and knives, and 20 were civilians who had bruises.
International disrepute
With these explanations, Morocco is trying to shelve a few events that have severely damaged once again, its international image. Jelmouss Governor says even that, though investigations are still open, have been arrested all those responsible for clashes with police. Something wrong with the news home, checked by this newspaper, that continuing the records in private homes to find more participants in the riots.
Nor does it seem believable explanation for the documented cases of torture in police Sahrawi detainees. "Not everyone tells the truth," he says with a smile. "How do you know that these people were not tortured by other prisoners? There is no torture here. A long time ago that our country follows the path of democracy and human rights." The fact is that many of the tortures were committed within 50 meters from the office of governor. Evidenced by the bruises on the body of Leila Lili, an activist who was brutally beaten over the past 9 and 10 at the police station nearby to the building of the Government. "I was beaten all night," he says. "I was beaten with rods, kicked, punched. I said, say that the Sahara is Moroccan, I live the king. In the end I was forced to put a fingerprint in a statement that could not even read," she has said.Local leaders recognize the arrest of 132 Saharawi
Morocco detains 125 Sahrawi, said yesterday the governor of Laayoune, Mohamed Jelmouss. Seven more children have been released. Interestingly, the total of 132 is higher than the figure calculated by the Sahrawi Association of Victims of Human Rights Violations (ASVDH), which has been documented, including the seven released prisoners, to 127 names, plus three others unidentified.
Jelmouss said that 117 prisoners are in the Black Prison in El Aaiun. Of these, 113 will be tried in the Court of Appeal and four others in courts of first instance. Another eight have been transferred to Rabat to be tried by military courts as responsible for the deaths of 11 police officers killed in the riots.
Djimi The Gaul, president of the ASVDH, says in the Black Prison are held a total of 115 prisoners, who added eight moved to Rabat and the seven children who have been released.
As the two balances differ is in the case of the missing. The ASVDH recognizes the difficulty of documenting these cases due to fear of families, and speaks of at least five people unaccounted for. The governor denies Jelmouss Saharawi not nobody knows where they are. But ironically, "They may have fled to the desert. It is customary in Western Sahara. Huyen until you forget things. I know that there Saharawi have fled and are waiting to pass the time."
Fear prevails among the Sahrawi. The police deployment in the city is the largest ever recorded. Asked about the number of troops who have been transferred to Laayoune from different parts of Morocco, the governor closed banda: "That is a military secret."


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