Western Sahara Action Ireland protest in at Central Bank on Saturday December 18th from 2 – 3.30pm.

by Beni Azza Mohammed /Boujdour - I.C.D.H.R. Tue Dec 14, 2010 01:26

What Happened At The Protest Camp Of Gadaym Izik Near Laayoune City In The south Of Morocco.
Te Sahrawi protesters initially demanded jobs and housing before the camp came under the control of armed militia manipulated by the separatist group Polisario and its backer Algeria. Traffickers, gangs and killers were used to prevent people from leaving the camp and to destroy and burn Laayoune city.These criminals killed Moroccan security forces in difficult situations of self-defense when they attempted to peacefully dismantle the unauthorized Gdeim Izik camp, where Moroccan citizens’ lives were endangered . The defenseless Moroccan security forces, who had come to rescue the innocent people from the camp did not fire a single gunshot in their intervention.They left 11 painful casualties among them,and there were two civilian deaths, one of them was caused by a car accident .
Yet ,the above article may be repeating the mistakes made by El PAIS when it published a picture of injured children in Gaza as victims of the latest unrest that swept Laayoune city,and by The “Antena 3” channel when it featured a picture of four people “who were brutally murdered in Western Sahara” while this was about a crime committed back in January in Casablanca by an insane person.
To end the whole problem Morocco has proposed an autonomy initiative that is a plan for a lasting piece, which is supported by thinkers, diplomats and several countries.But Algeria and polisario’s plan for an independent state in southern Morocco is a non-starter. A state in southern Morocco constitutes an existential threat to both Morocco and its leadership. Most independent analysts dismiss such an option because it would destabilize the entire North African Region, hasten a military conflict between the two protagonists, empower a new generation of terrorist groups and unleash an unprecedented wave of refugees on European southern shores.
Algeria, which acts as a defender of self-determination, does not hesitate to violate the basic rights of its own people and the Moroccan people held captive in Tindouf camps formore than three decades. The Saharawi refugees detained in Tindouf Camps are denied the basic, fundamental human rights of freedom of speech, expression and association, freedom of movement, the right to leave the camps without the express permission of the Polisario leadership,and the rights to family life, with their young children being sent to Cuba for many years against their will. The Sahrawi people are exposed to fear, the use of intimidation, punishment,imprisonment and torture.They are denied the internationally donated food and medicines, which are misappropriated by the Polisario leaders.

by Diarmuid Breatnach - Western Sahara Action Ireland Wed Dec 15, 2010 01:37

The comment above is full of Moroccan state lies and evasions and is basically the same content as that written by the Moroccan Ambassador to Ireland in a letter recently to the Irish Times.

The facts are clear that Saharawis in protest set up the camp which was then attacked by the Moroccan forces and obliterated in one night (one only has to see the photos). As to what happened there, the usual lies about traffickers, intimidation by the Polisario etc. If they facts were as said by the Moroccan state and their mouthpieces, why were European journalists forbidden to enter the area?

The Moroccan state has a history not only of repression, but of murder, torture and even of rape of Saharawis and killed a youth bringing water to the camp before they razed it.

Western Sahara was known as Spanish Sahara when it was a Spanish colony. The Saharawis, most recently led by the Polisario Front, fought a long liberation war against them and they eventually decided to leave, at which point the Moroccan state marched in and took it over. The Polisario then fought them too and some years back a truce was brokered by the UN but nothing has changed and the Moroccans still occupy the land and use its resources or offer them to foreign companies, one of which is, regrettably, the Irish company San Leon.

What Algeria wants or does not want has nothing ultimately to do with the situation. The Saharawi are entitled to their self-determination.

by indegenous Wed Dec 22, 2010 23:16

i'm an eyewitness from the famous freedom camp Gdeim Izik.The best way to hide one"s crime is to get rid of the witnesses.stop your official moroccan lies and look for your truth, and the turth is quite obvious.when you clear up all the foreign media, Aljazeera as an example, and you close firmly the door of western sahara before you commit your action; that has only one clear meaning that anyone with little brain will understand: the Moroccan state in 8th of november has committed a genocide against the Sahrawi people and all the mass graves soon will be revealed and that's why the Moroccan state doesn't want to allow any investigation.(France vetoed the decision for a UN investigation; otherwise, Moroccan state could have stood before the international court for a crime against humanity, but it will stand and get trailed).Now, we still don't know the size of the crime as so many have fled or disappeared,) To say that some Polisario members infiltrated the camp is a silly lie; Westren sahara is encircled by a 2500 sand wall (the biggest war wall ever in history that divides western sahara in 2),heavily mined that even a bird in the sky is supposed to be bombarbed let alone a human being.so, how can these polisario members get in?Stop your silly cheap and dirty propaganda, the Irish people are much more informed and smarter than you.
From the occupied Western Sahara, we Sahrawi people call on the free Irish people to defend freedom as the did and still doing, and by standing by the western sahara people they are defending the true principals of the founders of the Irish republic that are icons and kindles by which we Sahrawis enlighten our road to freedom and independence.

by indigenous Sat Dec 25, 2010 01:04

here is the first amnesty international report refeering to the few available resources they were able to find knowing that hundreds are still missing and we are sure that tens of them were burried in secret mass graves, and remember that the Moroccan occupier has tried to clean away any evidence when he didn't allow the international media and journalists to come and assess the size of the genocide but it's only a matter of time before the horrible truth is going to be unveiled, and we'll bring to justice the occupier as now he can run but can't on any way hide.
Dear irish and the rest of the world, here is the report that can be found at:

http://amnesty.org/en/library/info/MDE29/019/2010/en

by indigenous Wed Jan 05, 2011 23:37

Irish company San Leon is leading the way in the onshore exploration of oil and gas in occupied Western Sahara. In the photo above (from 2009), the Irish company's representatives were meeting with Moroccan government officials to sign an agreement for oil exploration in occupied Western Sahara.

By working with Morocco to pursue the natural riches of Western Sahara, San Leon is helping to steal resources belonging to the indigenous population of Western Sahara, in turn undermining efforts at the UN to resolve the 35-year-long dispute between Morocco and the Frente Polisario.

In a well-known legal opinion provided to the UN Security Council in early 2002, the UN's Legal Adviser pronounced that further exploration for oil resources in Western Sahara would be illegal if the Sahrawi people were not consulted and did not benefit from such activities.

from wsrw.org