2010年11月10日水曜日

one Saharawi's child died and at least 3 wounded by Moroccan gunfire

Un menor saharaui muerto y al menos tres heridos por disparos marroquíes

Su todoterreno fue tiroteado al saltarse un control cuando salía del campamento protesta instalado en El Aaiún.- El aumento de la tensión coincide con la visita a Marruecos del enviado de la ONU para el Sáhara Occidental, Christopher Ross

IGNACIO CEMBRERO - Madrid - 25/10/2010
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Sahara One child died and at least three wounded by gunfire MoroccanHis SUV was shot to skip checks when leaving the protest camp set up in Laayoune .- The increased tension coincides with a visit to Morocco's UN envoy for Western Sahara, Christopher Ross
Ignacio Cembrero - Madrid - 25/10/2010
The UN envoy for Western Sahara, Christopher Ross, continues its tour of Morocco, which was not foreseen the rise of tension that is living in the area following the death yesterday of a young Saharawi 14 years who was killed by the Moroccan army when the ATV in circulating ran a control. Rabat says its soldiers responded to a shot from the car carrying the child died, while the Polisario Front has denounced the inaction of the UN before the harassment to the massive protest Moroccan Sahrawi Izik Agdaym makeshift camp. For his part, Ross met with the Moroccan Minister of Foreign Affairs, Taib Fassi Fihri, and Interior, Taieb Cherkaoui, in a meeting that joined the representative of Morocco to the UN. After the meeting, held at the headquarters of the Ministry of Interior, have not provided statements. Subsequently, the UN envoy has met with King Mohamed VI, Moroccan officials have said without providing more information about the meeting.
The tour of the UN envoy, which began last Saturday and ends tomorrow, is part of the announcement that the Frente Polisario and Morocco informal meetings will resume next month in New York. However, his trip has been an unexpected nasty in the last hours. Nayem the Gareh, was gunned down by the Moroccan army when the ATV on which he was traveling in ran a control Izik Agdaym camp, located 15 miles east of El Aaiun, the capital of the Sahara. In the five-passenger Nissan traveling. The wounded would be seven, according to Sahrawi, and three, according to the Moroccan Ministry of Interior. Among them, the Gareh Zoubayr, the deceased's brother and former political prisoner. The vehicle they were traveling was stopped at a first control, but not in the next, where they were stationed soldiers who did not hesitate to open fire.
The Moroccan Interior Ministry has claimed in a statement that the shooting of his security forces were in response "to a bullet fired from a vehicle," the agency Efe reported. "The initial elements of the investigation, individuals were aboard the two vehicles. It fired a bullet from one of them, forcing the police to respond," says the text. According to the Moroccan version, among the occupants of one car was Ahmed Daudi, Djija, who allegedly weighed on an APB for "several crimes committed after his release from prison, where he had purged several convictions for robbery and other crimes. The Rabat government spokesman and Communications Minister Khalid Naciri, added that the car carrying the dead child was found "a veritable arsenal."
Moreover, the Polisario Front representative in Spain, Bucharaya Beyun has accused the UN of "doing nothing" to prevent the death of the young. According Beyún, quoted by Efe, the organization warned days ago at the Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) the fear that a tragedy could happen to the harassment of Morocco to the camps set up by the participants in the protest, the greatest living Western Sahara since the end of Spain's territory in 1975.
Carrot and stick
So far Morocco has collated the stick and carrot to try to end it by the number of participants, the largest protest in Western Sahara since Spain withdrew from the territory 35 years ago. As it grows and continues the concentration of thousands of Sahrawi also increases the nervousness of the Moroccan authorities.
Two weeks ago a handful of young planted their tents there (nomad tents) and there are now many thousands of all ages, from the desert claiming that jobs, housing and the resources of the Sahara, starting with the fishing in its waters, to revert to the Sahrawi. Their demands have been made through a series of videos on Youtube.
The camp brings together, according to attendees, more than 10,000 Sahrawi, but their numbers are growing daily. Moroccan independent press acknowledges that there are at least 8,000 and the Frente Polisario, fighting for the independence of the territory, amounts to between 15,000 and 20,000. This mass exodus has altered life in Laayoune where, for example, some schools have closed for lack of students.
The Polisario symbols, flag and slogans have emerged in the camp and some of his supporters who have joined collective protest kept a low profile. In Agdaym Izik sends a coordination committee composed of young people so far nothing meanings.
"Allow independence movements spring up here would make us the hara-kiri," says the phone Omar, a member of the committee, "because it would give a pretext to Moroccan security forces to carry on the camp." "We stand here all it takes," he adds.
Harassment in the camp
Uploaded on trucks and SUVs, hundreds, perhaps thousands, of gendarmes and officers of the Auxiliary Forces, a body under the Ministry of Interior, and soldiers around Agdaym Izik. Sometimes trying to prevent access to those who want to join or not let them get water and food. "They also threw stones at our vehicles as we enter and leave the camp in search of food," complains Mohammed, another member of the coordinating committee asks not to publish your name "for fear of reprisals." The Polisario maintains that since there are 41 wounded.
But this committee has met several times with three top officials, all with the rank of governor, the Interior Ministry has sent to Rabat to Laayoune to make some proposals in exchange for laying down their attitude. Morocco will have in 2011 a very restrictive budget and will be, however, difficult to meet the aspirations of so many thousands of Sahrawi.
The Moroccan government spokesman, Khalid Naciri, and Foreign Minister, Taieb Fassi-Fihri, they said, to the press and in Parliament, what happens at camp is "the expression of social claims which fall within normal the climate of freedom and democracy that lives Morocco. "
Fassi-Fihri also lashed out against "attempts to provide tools for those social aspirations" by the Polisario Front, whose leader, Mohamed Abdelaziz, called on the UN and the international community to provide protection for Sahrawi camps.
Early next month, Rabat and the Polisario will resume their talks in New York with a view to ending a conflict that arose in 1975 when Spain gave the Sahara to Morocco, under the chairmanship of Christopher Ross, personal envoy of Secretary General UN.


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