El conflicto del Sáhara
Marruecos liquida la protesta saharaui
Las fuerzas de seguridad arrasan el campamento y se declara el toque de queda - Rabat denuncia que cinco agentes murieron apuñalados, apedreados y quemados
IGNACIO CEMBRERO - Madrid - 09/11/2010
http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internacional/Marruecos/liquida/protesta/saharaui/elpepuint/20101109elpepiint_1/Tes
The Sahara conflictMoroccan Sahrawi protests liquidSecurity forces rampaging through the camp and declared a curfew - Rabat claims that five officers were stabbed to death, stoned and burned
Ignacio Cembrero - Madrid - 09/11/2010VoteResult No interésPoco interesanteDe interésMuy interesanteImprescindible 14 votesPrint Send
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Morocco ended yesterday at dawn, the largest and longest-Saharan protest the Izik-Agdaym camping since the war ended in 1991 between the Frente Polisario and Rabat.
* 35 years without solution
* Sahara festers
* Spain called for calm but avoids condemning the use of force by Rabat
* Morocco's suicide
* "Rabat wants to provoke a civil war in the Sahara"
* "A minority pro-Polisario pervaded the camp"
Morocco
Morocco
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Capital:
Rabat.
Government:
Islamic Monarchy.
Population:
34,343,219 (est. 2008)
Western Sahara
DEPTH
Capital:
.
Government:
.
Population:
Rupture of the negotiation process
The Sahara conflict
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Rupture of the negotiation process
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In the dismantling of the camp and subsequent clashes in Laayoune, the capital of Western Sahara, there were five deaths in the ranks of the Moroccan security forces and some 70 wounded, said Interior Minister of Morocco Taieb Charkaoui in Parliament.
The side of the Saharawi demonstrators had at least one dead and dozens injured, according to local sources. Sahrawi associations defending human rights, as Codesa, chaired Haidar, they fear, however, that when things calm down, to reveal the names of other fatalities. The authorities in Laayoune, where last night was declared a curfew, they argue that any Sahrawi died.
Among the Moroccan victims, we know that the first three (a member of the Auxiliary Forces, a policeman and a fireman) were killed during the clashes. The first was stabbed and another was stoned and the third was burned. The other two died in hospital from injuries.
The committee that ran the camp claimed housing and jobs or, failing that, social assistance. Never mentioned self-determination for Western Sahara. Despite his caution, the camp was surrounded by Moroccan security forces, including Army.
What happened from Rabat on Thursday to decide to intervene? Mohamed Guelmouss, Governor of Laayoune, said in a statement to the official MAP news agency that "a group of individuals with criminal records and searched for common crimes" had seized the camp and held "hostage to chiukhs [ Saharawi notables], women and children. "
Other Moroccan officials hinted that such "criminals" had been recruited by the Frente Polisario. The police "tried to peacefully stop to these lawless elements, but encountered a violent reaction," the governor.
Shortly before seven o'clock in the morning for an hour yesterday, in peninsular Spain, three helicopters flew over the camp, witnesses said. Through speakers demanded that the population left it, to which only a handful of women agreed with their children.
Began immediately after the assault by the Gendarmerie and the Auxiliary Forces, a vigilante body. To take control used water cannons, rubber bullets and tear gas. The concentrated there replied with molotov cocktails, stones and sticks. Many tents were burnt.
The Gendarmerie arrested 65 protesters, including prominent intellectual Ennaama Saharan Asfari, but the bulk of the campers were released and went on the road to Laayoune.
At that time the inhabitants of the Saharawi neighborhoods of the capital had been taken to the streets to build barricades and burning cars in protest at the assault. With the arrival of young people expelled from Agdaym Izik received reinforcements.
In the middle of the day Sahrawi demonstrators and security forces fought a real battle. The local television headquarters, courts and dozens of cars burned while young people chanted slogans in favor of independence. Gradually, however, "Moroccan riot police moved into the background," said a European from the terrace of a downtown hotel was the fighting. "Moroccan civilians were replaced by very aggressive," he adds.
"They are instigated by the police to intimidate the Sahrawi" denounces Omar, a Saharawi whose vehicle was stopped on his way home from a mother. "I was forced to shout long live the king, because if he did, he beat me."
Dozens of vehicles in Sahrawi and shops were smashed and looted yesterday afternoon in Laayoune by civilians, according to testimonies matched. The Moroccan exalted forced the doors of some houses to stick to its residents.
Rabat has tried to keep the foreign press can not monitor the events of Laayoune. The computer system RAM, the Moroccan airline, yesterday canceled the reservations of a dozen Spanish journalists on the flight Casablanca, Laayoune and the airline Binter Canarias, which links Las Palmas with the Sahara, has been forced to suspend operations until the weekend. A police checkpoint in Tan Tan prevents foreigners entering the former colony.
The assault came the same day he was scheduled to resume in New York talks between Morocco and Polisario on Western Sahara. The independence movement was hesitant, but finally sat down at the table. He had not to fall into the trap of Morocco, said Ahmed Boukhari, UN representative of the Polisario. Rabat wants to sabotage the negotiations, "sponsored by the UN envoy, Christopher Ross.35 years without solution
- Creation of the Frente Polisario. In May 1973, the Algiers Declaration calls for end to Spanish occupation in Western Sahara. Polisario Front was born. Spain announces the call for a referendum.
- The Green March. In October 1975 the International Court of Justice in The Hague for the right to self-determination for the Saharawi people. King Hassan II of Morocco launched the Green March against the Western Sahara border. The Saharawi people fled and settled in camps in Tindouf (Algeria).
- Spain leaves the territory. In November 1975, following the agreements of Madrid, Spain agrees to leave the Sahara. It transfers the bulk of the colony to Morocco and a third to Mauritania. In February 1976 the last Spanish representative leaves the area. The Polisario Front proclaimed the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic and declares war on Morocco.
- Rabat up a wall. In 1980 Morocco began to build a wall to divide the territory along some 2,700 kilometers.
- The UN mission. In 1991 comes into force on the ceasefire and UN creates MINURSO. Is expected to hold a referendum in 1992. In 1997 the UN special envoy, James Baker, announced the referendum in 1998. Baker will be responsible for new consultations.
- The 'Baker Plan'. In August 2003 the Security Council approve the Baker plan, which proposes regional elections with a pro-Moroccan census and a referendum in five years. Approved by the Polisario and Morocco rejects it.
- Dialogue and confrontation. In 2008, fails the fourth round of negotiations and the Polisario rejects new UN envoy Peter van Walsum, which it accuses of favoring Morocco. In 2009 he replaced Christopher Ross, who begins a round of informal talks.
- Haidar's protest. In late 2009, Haidar activist begins hunger strike 32 days after being expelled from Laayoune.
http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internacional/Marruecos/liquida/protesta/saharaui/elpepuint/20101109elpepiint_1/Tes
The Sahara conflictMoroccan Sahrawi protests liquidSecurity forces rampaging through the camp and declared a curfew - Rabat claims that five officers were stabbed to death, stoned and burned
Ignacio Cembrero - Madrid - 09/11/2010VoteResult No interésPoco interesanteDe interésMuy interesanteImprescindible 14 votesPrint Send
*
*
*
*
Morocco ended yesterday at dawn, the largest and longest-Saharan protest the Izik-Agdaym camping since the war ended in 1991 between the Frente Polisario and Rabat.
* 35 years without solution
* Sahara festers
* Spain called for calm but avoids condemning the use of force by Rabat
* Morocco's suicide
* "Rabat wants to provoke a civil war in the Sahara"
* "A minority pro-Polisario pervaded the camp"
Morocco
Morocco
DEPTH
Capital:
Rabat.
Government:
Islamic Monarchy.
Population:
34,343,219 (est. 2008)
Western Sahara
DEPTH
Capital:
.
Government:
.
Population:
Rupture of the negotiation process
The Sahara conflict
DEPTH
Rupture of the negotiation process
Link full coverage
The news on other sites
* Websites in Spanish
* In other languages
In the dismantling of the camp and subsequent clashes in Laayoune, the capital of Western Sahara, there were five deaths in the ranks of the Moroccan security forces and some 70 wounded, said Interior Minister of Morocco Taieb Charkaoui in Parliament.
The side of the Saharawi demonstrators had at least one dead and dozens injured, according to local sources. Sahrawi associations defending human rights, as Codesa, chaired Haidar, they fear, however, that when things calm down, to reveal the names of other fatalities. The authorities in Laayoune, where last night was declared a curfew, they argue that any Sahrawi died.
Among the Moroccan victims, we know that the first three (a member of the Auxiliary Forces, a policeman and a fireman) were killed during the clashes. The first was stabbed and another was stoned and the third was burned. The other two died in hospital from injuries.
The committee that ran the camp claimed housing and jobs or, failing that, social assistance. Never mentioned self-determination for Western Sahara. Despite his caution, the camp was surrounded by Moroccan security forces, including Army.
What happened from Rabat on Thursday to decide to intervene? Mohamed Guelmouss, Governor of Laayoune, said in a statement to the official MAP news agency that "a group of individuals with criminal records and searched for common crimes" had seized the camp and held "hostage to chiukhs [ Saharawi notables], women and children. "
Other Moroccan officials hinted that such "criminals" had been recruited by the Frente Polisario. The police "tried to peacefully stop to these lawless elements, but encountered a violent reaction," the governor.
Shortly before seven o'clock in the morning for an hour yesterday, in peninsular Spain, three helicopters flew over the camp, witnesses said. Through speakers demanded that the population left it, to which only a handful of women agreed with their children.
Began immediately after the assault by the Gendarmerie and the Auxiliary Forces, a vigilante body. To take control used water cannons, rubber bullets and tear gas. The concentrated there replied with molotov cocktails, stones and sticks. Many tents were burnt.
The Gendarmerie arrested 65 protesters, including prominent intellectual Ennaama Saharan Asfari, but the bulk of the campers were released and went on the road to Laayoune.
At that time the inhabitants of the Saharawi neighborhoods of the capital had been taken to the streets to build barricades and burning cars in protest at the assault. With the arrival of young people expelled from Agdaym Izik received reinforcements.
In the middle of the day Sahrawi demonstrators and security forces fought a real battle. The local television headquarters, courts and dozens of cars burned while young people chanted slogans in favor of independence. Gradually, however, "Moroccan riot police moved into the background," said a European from the terrace of a downtown hotel was the fighting. "Moroccan civilians were replaced by very aggressive," he adds.
"They are instigated by the police to intimidate the Sahrawi" denounces Omar, a Saharawi whose vehicle was stopped on his way home from a mother. "I was forced to shout long live the king, because if he did, he beat me."
Dozens of vehicles in Sahrawi and shops were smashed and looted yesterday afternoon in Laayoune by civilians, according to testimonies matched. The Moroccan exalted forced the doors of some houses to stick to its residents.
Rabat has tried to keep the foreign press can not monitor the events of Laayoune. The computer system RAM, the Moroccan airline, yesterday canceled the reservations of a dozen Spanish journalists on the flight Casablanca, Laayoune and the airline Binter Canarias, which links Las Palmas with the Sahara, has been forced to suspend operations until the weekend. A police checkpoint in Tan Tan prevents foreigners entering the former colony.
The assault came the same day he was scheduled to resume in New York talks between Morocco and Polisario on Western Sahara. The independence movement was hesitant, but finally sat down at the table. He had not to fall into the trap of Morocco, said Ahmed Boukhari, UN representative of the Polisario. Rabat wants to sabotage the negotiations, "sponsored by the UN envoy, Christopher Ross.35 years without solution
- Creation of the Frente Polisario. In May 1973, the Algiers Declaration calls for end to Spanish occupation in Western Sahara. Polisario Front was born. Spain announces the call for a referendum.
- The Green March. In October 1975 the International Court of Justice in The Hague for the right to self-determination for the Saharawi people. King Hassan II of Morocco launched the Green March against the Western Sahara border. The Saharawi people fled and settled in camps in Tindouf (Algeria).
- Spain leaves the territory. In November 1975, following the agreements of Madrid, Spain agrees to leave the Sahara. It transfers the bulk of the colony to Morocco and a third to Mauritania. In February 1976 the last Spanish representative leaves the area. The Polisario Front proclaimed the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic and declares war on Morocco.
- Rabat up a wall. In 1980 Morocco began to build a wall to divide the territory along some 2,700 kilometers.
- The UN mission. In 1991 comes into force on the ceasefire and UN creates MINURSO. Is expected to hold a referendum in 1992. In 1997 the UN special envoy, James Baker, announced the referendum in 1998. Baker will be responsible for new consultations.
- The 'Baker Plan'. In August 2003 the Security Council approve the Baker plan, which proposes regional elections with a pro-Moroccan census and a referendum in five years. Approved by the Polisario and Morocco rejects it.
- Dialogue and confrontation. In 2008, fails the fourth round of negotiations and the Polisario rejects new UN envoy Peter van Walsum, which it accuses of favoring Morocco. In 2009 he replaced Christopher Ross, who begins a round of informal talks.
- Haidar's protest. In late 2009, Haidar activist begins hunger strike 32 days after being expelled from Laayoune.
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