Sahrawi Youth calls on UN Security Council to put end to Moroccan violations of human rights:

Algiers, July 22, 2010: Sahrawi youth delegation, participating in the activities of the second edition of the University Summer School held in Algiers, appealed Wednesday to the international community, led by the UN Security Council to immediately intervene to put an end to the blatant violations of human rights committed by Moroccan repressive forces in the occupied territories of Western Sahara.

The participants in the Summer University, held this year under the slogan of "loyalty and continuity" on behalf of students and youth of Saguia el-Hamra and Río de Oro, condemned the brutal repression against the sixth delegation of human rights activists, foreign observers and public receiving the delegation, which visited Algeria and Sahrawi refugee camps, denouncing at the same time the systematic repression practiced by Moroccan State.

In this situation of repressive practices of arrest and torture against Sahrawi people, they warned in their statement against the dangerous escalation in the occupied territories of Western Sahara, holding the Moroccan state fully responsible for such practices, which they considered as impeding the effort of the United Nations for peace in the region.

In the same context, the President of Algerian National Committee of Solidarity with Sahrawi people (CNASPS), Mehrez Amari, requested UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to take the necessary measures to protect the rights of Sahrawi people.

The Ambassador of Venezuela in Algeria, while attending the stand in solidarity with Sahrawi human rights activists, questioned the real reasons behind the failure of the UN mission "MINURSO" so far to organize a referendum on self-determination, and why not consulted Sahrawi people on the issue of self-determination despite some 90 countries in the world recognize the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR).

Source: (SPS)