War Against Moroccan Occupation and Independence for Sahrawi Republic Declared

Ceasefire in El Guerguerat: Morocco distorts facts to cover its violations

by Sahara Press Service

November 15, 2020

Bir Lahlou (Liberated Territories) - Sahrawi Foreign Ministry accused on Friday Morocco of distortion of facts to cover its violations of cease-fire in El Guerguerat, south-western Western Sahara.

"The language and positions used by the Moroccan occupier are all based on untruth and falsification," said the Sahrawi Ministry in a statement, recalling that "Morocco acts and communicates as if Western Sahara is part of its national territory, while this is a clear lie and a well-known frame-up to the international community."

 

"The Moroccan presence in the lands of the Sahrawi Republic is classified by the UN General Assembly as an occupation in accordance with UN resolutions (34/37 in 1979 and 19/35 in 1980), as well as the opinions of the International Court of Justice in 1975 and the European Court of Justice in 1975 and 2016 and the legal opinions of the United Nations in 2002 and the African Union (AU) in 2015," added the same source.

He said that the Moroccan Ministry of Foreign Affairs "explicitly denigrates the UN Secretary General and said in an official statement on his behalf that the front refused mediation by him, which is an untruth, especially since he reacted by the same when he mentioned that the Mauritanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has interposed itself between the parties, although this is unfounded."

The continued occupation of important parts of the Sahrawi Republic by Morocco is explained by the obvious complicity within the Security Council with the occupier, noted the Sahrawi Ministry, stressing that this sordid complicity, which is the opposite of international legality, is an attempt, for the past two years, aimed at attacking the legal nature of the Saharawi cause as a cause of decolonization that can only be resolved through the exercise by the Sahrawi people of their inalienable and unalienable right to self-determination and independence. (SPS)

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UN has "failed in its obligations" towards Sahrawi people

Algiers, 15 November 2020 (SPS) - The United Nations has "failed in its obligations" towards the Sahrawi people, said Thursday evening Saharawi activist, Aminatou Haidar, amid tensions in El Guerguarat in south-western Western Sahara, where Morocco launched Friday a military aggression against peaceful Sahrawi demonstrators.

"29 years after the cease-fire (September 6, 1991), the UN has failed in its obligations to the Sahrawi people and especially the Security Council, which is supposed to be the guarantor of conflict resolution," supported the Saharawi activist, in an intervention by video-conference, on the channel "Canal Algeria."

Referring to the status quo in Western Sahara, Aminatou Haidar, alternative Nobel Prize winner 2019, deplored the complicity within the Security Council and especially France "which are at the root of the obstinacy and manifest refusal" of Morocco to comply with international law.

"The latest UN resolution has not left hope for the Sahrawi people to continue their peaceful struggle," she noted, stressing that the return to armed struggle could become an option for the Sahrawi people, as long as the UN has left no choice to the Sahrawi and their legitimate representative, the Polisario Front.

Aminatou Haidar also denounced "the complicity of the Minurso" which has shown "partiality" towards the Sahrawis who demand respect for the fundamental rights of the Sahrawi people, namely the right of self-determination and stop the illegal plundering of natural resources of Western Sahara."

She underlined that the Polisario Front and the Sahrawi activists have "always been under pressure from the Sahrawi people, especially the young people, who no longer believe in peaceful resistance. Our patience must be taken into account", referring to the recourse to weapons.

Morocco "has never stopped systematic violation of the human rights in the occupied territories of Western Sahara," she added.

"Anyone who dares to claim their right will be the victim of reprisals, intimidation or arbitrary detention", she denounced, stressing that "all peaceful Sahrawi demonstrations are repressed and we are permanently under police surveillance".

On Friday, Morocco launched a military assault in the buffer zone of El-Guerguerat by opening three new illegal breaches in violation of the ceasefire agreement signed in 1991 by the two parties (Morocco and Polisario Front), under the aegis of the UN. (SPS)

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