We, the women and the whole people from Western Sahara express our support and solidarity with the saharawi population which is living in the occupied cities mainly in the saharawi capital, L´Aayoun, where thousands of citizens carried out peaceful demonstrations on the occassion of the visit of the main international media such as CNN, The Washington Post, The New York Times etc.
The occupied city of El Aaiun, capital of Western Sahara, witnessed on saturday evening, May 4th, huge mass demonstrations calling for the right of Saharawi people to self-determination and the extension of MINURSO´s prerrogatives to include the protection and monitoring of human rights in what is known as the Africa´s last colony: Western Sahara,
In Matalaa quarter, thousands of Saharawi demonstrators staged a peaceful protest, where they raised Saharawi flags and chanted a number of national slogans.
The protest was tightly besieged by different Moroccan repression and intelligence apparatus, in official and civil clothes. Similar demonstrations also took place at the streets of Sidi Mohamed Daddach, Ras Al-Khaima and Al-Inaach
Many saharawi women participated in the May 4th historical demosntrations where they peacefully demanded the legitimate right of their people to self-determination referendum, guaranteed by the Charter of the United Nations which the MINURSO was created for and to which both parties agreed upon, the release of Saharawi political prisoners, respect for human rights and stop the exploitation of their natural resources by the new colonizers.
