The Saharawi Women, the entire people of Western Sahara and also their millions of friends all over the world express their deep condolences to the whole Ali-Beiba´s family and to the saharawi people for the death of the President of the saharawi parliament, Mr. Mahfoud Ali-Beiba who died last friday, July 2nd 2010 at his home in the saharawi refugee camps.
The funeral of the President of the Saharawi National Council, Mahfoudh Ali-Beiba, was held on sunday morning, july 4th, in the cemetery in the wilaya of Smara.
After the prayer of death, the deceased was buried in the presence of the President of the Saharawi Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz, members of the National Secretariat of the Polisario Front, Members of Parliament, Government, Advisory Council, High Council of Justice and Sahrawi civil and military senior officials, who had come to pay their last tribute to the deceased.
Delegations from Algeria, MINURSO and international organizations and NGOs active in the Saharawi refugee camps, also attended the funeral of the deceased, along with members of his family.
Hundreds and hundreds of Sahrawi citizens also came to attend the funeral of President of the Saharawi National Council, Mahfoudh Ali Beiba.
Our dear brother Mr. Ali-Baiba Hammad Douweihi was born in the northern part of Western-Sahara: Saguia el Hamra in 1.953. He was married with our dear friend Mouina Cheikhatou and father of three beatifoul girls: Chaiaa, Fala and Mahfoudha.
In 1976 he had been appointed Secretary General of the Polisario Front, after the death of El-Ouali Mustapha Sayed, the founder of the Saharawi independence movement.
He had been replaced by Mohamed Abdelaziz, who still directs the liberation movement.
Mahfoud Ali Beiba was also Prime Minister of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic, (SADR)proclaimed by the Polisario, from 1982-1985, then 1995-1999.
Mahfoud Ali Beiba had chaired since 1997, all Saharawi delegations during the negotiations on the future of Western Sahara with Morocco conducted under the auspices of the United Nations and had been Chairman of the NSC since 2003.
The Saharawi Government has declared a week of mourning from last Saturday in honnour of one the most important leaders of POLISARIO Front movement and one of the historic leaders of the saharawi people who is still crying because of this great loss. Becasue Mahfoud Ali-Baiba is known by his strong loyalty to the national cause, a great defender of the legitimate right of self-determination and independence of the saharawi people. That is why we still crying for these huge loss in your third day´s death but we can assure you that we will continue in the struggle for what you have sacrificed your youth and your whole life.
¡God bless you!.
In-na lil-lahi wa in-na ileihi rayiúun.
