SAHARAWI MOTHER AND HER DAUGHTER VICTIMS OF A MURDER

The Saharawi Women very forceful condemn the murder of a saharawi woman and her daughter in saharawi occupied city of Dakhla, southern part of Western Sahara.

A Moroccan settler named Brahim Sayeh, who worked for the family of Hamma Menni as pastor, murdered Saturday morning the mother of the family, Salma mint Abdallah (80 years) and her daughter Demba Hamma, while they were asleep, reported a source of the Ministry of Occupied Territories and Saharawi Community Abroad.

The offender committed his crimes around 4 o’clock am, throwing a large stone on the head of the mother of the family who died on the scene before he went to her daughter, raped her and cut her throat stabbing her in the back and subsequently escaping, leaving behind the victims in a deplorable situation, the same source regretted.

The criminal took advantage of the absence of the son of the family moving to the locality of Toaulat, located 60 kilometres northeast of Dakhla, where his family used to go bring their needs, according to the same source.

The victims were discovered about 14 hours after the assassination, by a passers-by who was appalled by these "criminal" actions and hurried to the town to call for rescue, the source added.At least, nine Sahrawi citizens had died in similar circumstances, including three old people knocked by a Moroccan military who drove a truck in the streets of the occupied city of Dakhla, in December 2005.

The victims are: Laamor Sidi Brahim, Taleb Oul Ali Menna and Mohamed Lehsan Sidi Brahim. Since the outbreak of the intifada in May 2005, the Moroccan troops in Western Sahara and Southern Morocco also had committed other crimes after the death of Hamdi Lembarki under torture October 30, 2005 and Likhlifi Abba Cheikh, assassinated by a military near his home December 3, 2005.

In September 2007, young Saharawi Sidha Lehbib Ould Abdelaziz, died in a car that carried him to a psychiatrist at the centre of the city of Agadir (Southern Morocco), because of the "savage torture" that ‘he suffered during the journey, by the Moroccan forces of repression.The last victim was in December 2008 when two Sahrawi students: Houssein Abdessadik Alkteyif and Khaya Baba Abdelaziz died after being driven on by a Moroccan driving a bus at Agadir bus station, the same source recalled.

"TALK TOGETHER" CONDEMNS THE GREAT VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE OCCUPIED WESTERN SAHARA

Voices from all over the world are expressing their strongest condemnation to the continous repression against the peaceful people of Western Sahara in the occupied territories by morocco and also condemn the great violations of human rights in the occupied cities of the Africa´s last colony.
The British organisation, Talk Together, expressed deep concerns about the abduction and torture of two Saharawi young students, El Haouasi Nguia, a 19-year-old and Choummad Razouk, in a press release issued Sunday.The organisation, which runs programmes that bring together different sides of a conflict, to discuss their differences, said it is “deeply concerned by reports that a second member of its group of Layounne participants has been abducted and beaten by police”, reffering to the 20 years old student, Razouk Choummad, and El Haouasi Nguia, a 19-year-old young woman.Choummad, as it was well reported, was abducted by police on September 2, “blind folded, undressed, tortured for 5 hours, and covered in a liquid which he was told was petrol”.

The case of Choummad comes a week after his fellow participant, El Haouasi Nguia, a 19-year-old woman, was abducted, stripped, beaten and threatened with rape. She was also told by her Moroccan torturers “that the footage of the attack would be posted on the internet if she failed to renounce her political opinions and activities. Both students were reportedly quizzed about their planned attendance at the Talk Together programme”, Talk Together’s press release writes. The two young student were due to travel to the UK last month “to take part in the Talk Together conflict resolution course focussing on Western Sahara. A group of six young people from Layounne were prevented from boarding their plane at Agadir airport in Morocco, and subsequently detained and allegedly beaten by the authorities.

A second group of seven Moroccan students, plus their group leader, was also prevented from travelling from Casablanca”.“Talk Together is concerned for the well-being of both groups of young people and has sought advice from Amnesty International regarding their situation. Talk Together has written to the Moroccan authorities asking for clarification on the interventions which prevented the two groups from travelling to Oxford.
It is also requesting that the Layounne and Moroccan groups are reassured they will not be subjected to further attention from the authorities”, the press release further says.

Due to the absence of the Saharawi group from the occupied zones, and the Moroccan group because of the Moroccan authorities, only twenty two participants from the Saharawi refugee camps, and students from seven nationalities participated to a two week course about conflict resolution in Oxford.

These participants, Talk Together says “are now working on their projects to improve the situation”.