Demonstrations were held in occupied cities of Smara, Dakhla and Boujdour for expanding the powers of MINURSO for the protection and monitoring of human rights.
MINURSO is the only UN mission which does not have a mechanism to monitor human rights. The Polisario Front engages the battle to repair this injustice. Supporters showered. Following a meeting with Abbas Cheibani, the Saharawi Ambassador in Montevideo, the Foreign Minister of Uruguay, Luis Almagro, stressed the need to provide the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) a component to monitor human rights, says a dispatch from the official Sahrawi news agency SPS, dated February 15, while Spanish organizations of solidarity with the Saharawi people protested last Saturday as part of the international campaign for the expansion of the prerogatives of the UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) for the protection and monitoring of human rights, the source added.
Valuable support has preceded massive demonstrations in favor of independence and the expansion of the prerogatives of MINURSO for the protection and monitoring of human rights in the occupied capital of Western Sahara. They were violently repressed by the Moroccan occupation forces. « The injured were over 70 and several houses whose number is not defined yet were ransacked, » said in a statement the Saharawi Ministry of Occupied Territories and Sahrawi Communities established abroad who added that « the Moroccan occupation forces besieged the city of El Ayun, to prevent any demonstrations for the independence of Western Sahara. « Other similar demonstrations were held in the occupied cities of Smara, Dakhla and Boujdour for expanding the powers of MINURSO for the protection and monitoring of human rights. The international community moves. Evidence is accumulating on the atrocities committed by the Moroccan occupation forces. The noose is tightening. The case of eight corpses of Sahrawis executed by Moroccan soldiers exhumed from two mass graves attest that the Saharawi people is not immune to genocide. Spanish justice is who was seized of the matter, is decided to follow the case. « The judge of the Spanish High Court , Pablo Rafael Ruz Gutierrez took Wednesday (February 12, 2014), the statements of two Spanish experts, Carlos Martin Beristain and Francisco Etxeberria, who exhumed in June 2013, two mass graves containing eight bodies, including those of two Saharawi children », reported the Sahrawi official news agency SPS in another dispatch dated 13 February 2014.
Will the Security Council of the UN decide this time to expand the powers of the UN mission for the referendum in Western Sahara to monitor compliance with human rights?
The Polisario Front and Morocco have initiated a standoff that lasted for years regarding this sensitive part of the Saharawi folder. It is expected that the Makhzen will live nightmarish times. Reports abound and overwhelm him on this issue. « In Western Sahara, the security forces regularly repressed public gatherings considered hostile to Morocco on the disputed territory sovereignty, » stressed the last World annual report of the international organization for the defense of human rights, Human Rights Watch…
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