les crimes de guerre du Maroc – Le Jeune Indépendant

President Sahraoui Brahim Ghali accused Morocco of war crimes in Western Sahara, drawing up a dark picture on the situation of human rights in this territory occupied since 1975.

In a letter to the Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, the president of the RASD and secretary general of the Polisario Front, stressed that the Moroccan occupation forces, since their violation of the cease-fire on November 13, 2020, continue to use all types of weapons, including drones, to kill civilians Sahraouis.

“The deliberate targeting of civilians and civilian objects constitutes a war crime according to the status of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and a violation of the rules of international humanitarian law,” said Ghali.

In his message to inform the SG of the UN on the situation in Western Sahara, the President Sahrawi said that the Moroccan occupation “continues to impose a military seat and a complete media-out in the territory, preventing the United Nations bodies and their rapporteurs, non-governmental organizations, international media and observers to enter it, in order to conceal his odious crimes against the odious crimes against Sahrawi civilians ”.

Addressing the question of human rights, Brahim Ghali stressed that “the illegal and continuous military occupation of Western Sahara by Morocco still constitutes the most serious violation of the right of the Sahrawi people to self -determination, which led to systematic and obvious violations of political, economic, social and cultural rights of the Sahrawi people”.

These violations, he continued, “were documented and condemned by numerous international and African organizations, as well as by various United Nations organizations”.

In addition, President Sahraoui alerted to the fact that the Sahrawi political prisoners, at the forefront of which the group of Gdeim Izik, “continue to live in tragic conditions in the prisons of the Moroccan occupier, where they are subject to degrading and punitive practices daily, in particular the deprivation of care and medical treatment, isolation and prohibition of correspondence”.

Faced with this sinister observation, President Sahrawi called on the UN Secretary General to “take all the necessary measures to guarantee the immediate and unconditional release of all the Sahrawi political prisoners so that they can return to their country and find their families”.

He added that the Moroccan occupation authorities “continue to conduct a burnt earth policy with the declared objective of uprooting the Sahrawis of their homes and their lands within the framework of a systematic policy of colonialism, in addition to a policy of impoverishment, deprivation, exclusion and racial discrimination against the Sahraouis, and the looting of Sahrawi riches in collusion foreign, in blatant violation of the right of the Sahrawi people to permanent sovereignty over its natural resources ”.

Returning to the political settlement process, President Sahrawi said that the African Union Union plan “is the only framework agreed for the decolonization of Western Sahara”, recalling the international character of the Sahrawi issue, which constitutes a question of decolonization inscribed on the agenda of the General Assembly of the UN and its subsidiary bodies.

He reaffirmed that the UNA-UUA joint settlement plan, accepted in 1988 by the two parties, the Polisario Front and Morocco, and approved unanimously by the UN Security Council is “the only mutually agreed agreement that is practical and reasonable to achieve a peaceful, fair and lasting solution ending colonization in Western Sahara”.

In the same message, the president of the RASD, Brahim Ghali, demanded that the United Nations “assume their moral and legal responsibilities towards the Sahrawi people, which requires the establishment of an independent and permanent mechanism to protect the fundamental rights of the Sahrawi people and provide regular field relations on the situation in the territory with the competent bodies of the United Nations, and the widening of the mission of the mission of the mission of the mission of the United Nations for the organization of a referendum in Western Sahara (Minurso) to include human rights. ”

Finally, with regard to the peace process, President Sahraoui reiterated the full availability of the Polisario Front to begin “direct, serious, credible and good faith negotiations, without prerequisites, with Morocco, with the aim of achieving a peaceful, fair and lasting solution to end the colonization of Western Sahara, in accordance with the decisions of the United Nations and the relevant principles international “.