The Saharawi Women´s Human Rights Department express their strongest condemnation to the great violations of human rights perpetrated by the moroccan authorities in the occupied cities of Western Sahara.The young Saharawi student, Nguia El Houasi, appears in a video on You Tube, telling the story of her abduction and torture by Moroccan police last August 27.
The video is in Hassaniya Arabic, you can watch it below with an English translation of what she says:
My name is Nguia El HaouasiI was arrested several times, and the latest abduction was conducted on August 27th, 2009.
Last Thursday, I was on a visit to Hasanna Aliya, saharawi activist, who was tortured by Moroccan police in the city of Tantan. After I left the house along with my friends Hayat Rguibi and Sadani Aliya. After getting out of the house, a police car stopped nearby and was a Landrover model 110.T the officer on-board was Aziz Anouch and his colleague officer Khalid Barakat forced me into the car, and then drove me to the bank river of Sakia El Hamra near the middle school Allal ben abdalla. They handed me over to other police officers in plain clothes who joined us soon after my abduction. They blindfolded my eyes, and began to beat me brutally while using verbal abusive, cursing. Many other police agents joined the existing police gang namely agents belonging to DAG, DST Moroccan secret services. I did not see them, but I distinguished their voices and they asked my many questions such as: What are the dialogues that take place amongst the Saharawis on the return of the saharawi Ould Suelem From the refugee camps?I told him I was not in the city of Laayoune at this time. I was in the city of Agadir.Then they asked me: What do you think regarding this subject of defectors, such as Ould Suelem?I told them that the Polisario was very democratic, and they do not know any form of dictatorship, and that Polisario gives everyone the right to go wherever they like and not like you Moroccans who prevented us from travelling to Britain, and kept us at the airport in el Masira in Agadir. We were going to join the program Talk Together on behalf of the young Sahrawi generations in the occupied Territory, and you the Moroccans, you showed the world that you are dictators. You did not let us travel, and travelling is a human right. After I told them these Answers, they went mad..They said that the Saharawi human rights activists who incites us to engage in peaceful demonstrations, and they are the ones who support us and who give us national flags to raise during the demonstrations.I replied that nobody does incites us, and we do all this only for the defence of our cause and our right and we simply express our views and that it is spontaneous. Then they asked me about the peaceful demonstrations that I supposedly organized in the neighbourhood of Matallah district in Laayoune and who was in it. The officers beat me more in an attempt to make me tell them the names of persons involved. I told them that all the Saharawi people take part in the uprisings, and I do not know any one of them. There are young people, children and women and I was there to express my opinion and I had my flag Like all the Sahrawis. He told me now we will record a video, and we need you to say that it is the Sahrawi human rights activists who incite you to participate and organise these demonstrations and that they are just a group of separatists.After refusing to say these lies, I was asked to strip off my clothes and I refused. They took me down from the car and torn down my clothes leaving me naked in front of their ferocious eyes. All this was done while they were video-taping everything. They beat me in every part of my body. Under the psychological and physical torture and agreed to what I was asked to say.They only gave me my malhfa (Sahrawi women cloth), and blindfoldedme again and more torture followed.When they were filming me, there was a man who asked me all these questions while hiding his face, and they called him by his alias name so that I could not identify him, I am sure he was a VIP government servant. They say that they were filming me to show the world that they maintain security. They threatened me to publish it on the net and expose my body to all the world to scandalize me.I call upon international organizations to intervene to stop violations that occur daily in the occupied territories of Western Sahara, where the Moroccan authorities have also a former political prisoner Loumadi Abd Salam, Who was arrested just two days before me plus what they did to Hayat Rguibi and Hasanna Aliya just recently, and Naama Asfari. Morocco has violated human rights in many ways, where the Moroccan forces filmed sessions of Sahrawi citizens under torture and pressure. We do not bear all this and we are being watched in every place and our houses are besieged and controlled. We can not tolerate this situation anymore. The Minurso are there but they are doing nothing at all to help us. They do nothing to stop the ongoing violations of human rights, and we urge the United Nations to intervene to stop the torture exerted on our people. We need international monitoring and protection. The International community is doing nothing so far to stop this drama. We ask all civil societies in the world and all defenders of human rights to help us and to stop the mass violations committed by the Moroccan occupation forces towards the people of Western Sahara.
