PARIS – APS.dz.- The Collective of Associations of the Saharawi community in France urged the UN to assume its responsibilities in the face of the increasing repression exercised by the Moroccan occupation authorities in Western Sahara, and urged the European Union (EU ) to “unite its efforts with those of the African Union (AU)” to find a just and peaceful solution to the Saharawi conflict.
“The UN is called, more than ever, to assume its responsibilities in protecting the defenseless Saharawi civilian population, subject to the good will of an occupying Moroccan power that relentlessly oppresses and represses”, said the Collective in a statement on the occasion of the celebration. , on 27 February, the 46th anniversary of the proclamation of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR).
In the same context, the Collective of Associations of the Saharawi community in France “invites the French government, through its presidency of the European Union, as well as the EU member states, to join their efforts with that of the AU, in an effective and serious way to support the advent of a just, peaceful and definitive solution based on respect for international legality, and for the principles of decolonization and self-determination of peoples”, according to the statement.
He also praised the struggles, sacrifices and combats of the Saharawi people in the occupied territories of Western Sahara. “We pay tribute to the resistance of our people in all the liberated territories, in the Saharawi refugee camps, and we pay all our solidarity to their struggle of resistance against the occupation and for the right to self-determination and independence”, said the Collective in its statement.
The Collective took the opportunity to recall that on 27 February 1976, the Saharawi people proclaimed SADR in “difficult circumstances, a few weeks after the Moroccan invasion of the territory of Western Sahara in November 1975”.
“After forty-six years of struggle and sacrifice, the Saharawi people managed to create the foundations of a solid State based on a foundation of executive, legislative and judicial democratic institutions, including a territorial administration based on three main levels, the State, the Wilaya ( equivalent to a province, district or agglomeration) and the Daïra (equivalent to a municipality or commune)”, said the Collective.
And continuing in the same sense: “Today there are structured services everywhere that cover the spheres of economic, social and cultural life”.
However, regrets the Collective, “the SADR, a founding member of the AU, recognized by more than 80 countries around the world, has not yet regained its sovereignty over its entire territory, Western Sahara, much of which is still illegally occupied by Morocco.
Likewise, he stressed that the celebration of the 46th anniversary of the creation of the SADR “takes place this year in a particularly serious context, marked by the resumption of the armed conflict in Western Sahara, since 13 November 2020, after the rape by Morocco of the 1991 ceasefire and the aggression of El-Guerguerat, which provoked the Saharawi army’s response in self-defense”.
“The unjust war imposed on the Saharawi people by Morocco continues (currently) with its share of suffering and loss of human life”, laments the Collective of Associations of the Saharawi community in France.
Forty-six years after the creation of SADR, the referendum on self-determination of the people of Western Sahara, which was supposed to be organized under the auspices of the UN (1991 peace plan accepted by Morocco and the Polisario Front), has not yet taken place”, due to the “delay tactics”, and statet that “the delay tactic of Morocco, which disregards and tramples on international law with impunity, benefiting in its dangerous steps from the complicity of some governments, and the guilty inertia of the United Nations.
Furthermore, the Collective of Associations of the Saharawi community in France states that it “follows with great concern” the series of murders and premeditated murders carried out by the Moroccan occupation authorities against defenseless Saharawi citizens.
In the same context, it denounces the “deterioration of the situation of Saharawi political prisoners, the mistreatment of demonstrators, journalists, bloggers, lawyers and human rights defenders in the occupied territories of Western Sahara, all of them proof of a cruel and brutal Moroccan occupation”, said the statement.
