WE STRONGLY CONDEMN THE NEW MOROCCAN AGGRESSION AGAINST PEACEFUL SAHARAWIS

The Women from the Africa´s last colony: Western Sahara express their strongtest condemnation to the brutal and criminal intervention of the moroccan army and settlers against the saharawi citizens in the Gdeim Izik Camps, situated from 18 kilometers from the saharawi capital, Laayoune.

At least one Sahrawi, Mahmoud Babi Gargar, was killed and hundreds were injured after a brutal intervention by Moroccan forces early this monday´s morning, november 8th, against defenseless Saharawis in the Gdim Izik camp (Camp Liberty).

Sources from the occupided saharawi capital affirmed that he forcible intervention committed earlier Monday by Moroccan forces against the Saharawis in the Gdim Izik camp left at least one Saharawi killed and hundreds were injured and moroccan army and settlers entered to saharai houses.

The Saharawi women and the whole poeple of Western Sahara  warned that the situation was going to become became extremely serious several days ago in Laayoune and has erupted since today´s morning after the new escalation of the moroccan army and settlers where several international press agencies have reported that more than ten saharawis have died among them Mahmoud Babi Gargar, who was 26years old and killed by  moroccan occupider forces.

This despicable and tragic assassination, is repeated by the occupation forces following the intervention of the units of the Moroccan army, gendarmerie and auxiliary forces against the Sahrawi population, who are since the beginning of last October, left their homes and camping in Gdim Izik (17 km east of the city of Laayoune) to demand their rights.

The Saharawi Women  denounce strongly this criminal action of the moroccan army and settlers  against the peaceful people of Western Sahara and, we launch an urgent appeal to the international public opinion and all world´s organizations for defending human rights and for intervening to put an end to the repressive campaign against the peaceful saharawi population in the occupided cities which are under moroccan occupation since thirty five years ago.

SAHARAWI WOMEN IN THE 36TH EUCCOCO

As every year, an important delegation of Saharawi Women, from the occupided cities, also from the Refugee Camps and other parts, has partipated in the 36th European Coordianating Conference of Support to the Saharawi People which have just concluded its works in the french city of Le Mans.

This important event, the 36th European Coordinating Conference of Support to the Sahrawi People (EUCOCO) wrapped up Sunday by the adoption of a final resolution in which the participants renewed support to the right of Sahrawi people to self-determination.

The participants praised the "permanent effort" of the Algerian Committee for Support and Solidarity with Sahrawi People (CNASPS) for its support to the legitimate claims of Sahrawis, and also welcomed the setting-up of an international Latin-American conference of Support for Sahrawi people, and promised to help them achieve concrete results.

They also agreed on goals to be achieved to enhance and diversify solidarity operations and working methods to raise abilities of militants and their organizations to contribute to “ the implementation of the inalienable rights of the Saharawi people to self-determination and independence,”

The participants charged the working group of the EUCOCO to quickly find and deploy schedule and joint program coordinating on the international level.

The political, human rights and media issues took most time of the conference where the workshop of human rights decided to take many masseurs to develop its strategy of work to impose respecting human rights in Western Sahara.

Emergency program for the next two months has been adopted towards the occupied Saharawi territories especially “camps of independence” including visit of medical delegation and European parliamentarians and visits by representatives of several institutions, journalists, solidarity movement and civil society.

To support these decisions a creation of active “lobby” will begin towards UN, EU, France and Spain through letters, demonstrations and meetings

Lawyers have invited to join trails of Saharawi human rights defenders especially the trail of the Seven Saharawi political prisoners in Sale scheduled on November5.

It was also agreed on a program towards UN Human Rights Council and UN Security Council with need to find out a mechanism for monitoring and protecting human rights particularly the right of self-determination.

The participants began with group of jurists to study laws in favor of the Saharawi people to guarantee respect of human rights of Saharawi exodus toward “camps of independence”

Concern the media, the participants agreed to find ways to correct lies of Morocco and to promote media that could reflect the Saharawi reality

Regarding the natural resources of Western Sahara, the participants stressed on the need to demand EU to cancel its partnership agreement and fishing agreement with Morocco.

Finally the Participants decided to hold the 37th European Coordinating Conference of Support to the Saharawi People next year in Spanish Capital, Madrid.