Moroccan forces rampage Smara

25 Sep 2008 | Information/Update

Victim of Moroccan abuse in Smara

Shortly after the visit of the human rights NGO “Front Line” to the cities of Smara and El-Ayoune in the Moroccan occupied Western Sahara, the Moroccan authorities launched a massive campaign against the Sahrawi human rights activists and young Sahrawis.

In Smara on Sunday, 21 September 2008, the youth organized a peaceful demonstration demanding the right of the Sahrawi people to self-determination. The Moroccan security services reacted violently, launching a widespread campaign of arbitrary arrests and raiding the homes of a large number of Sahrawi citizens, including the Sahrawi human rights activist Mr. Hamadi Nassiri, member of the Sahrawi Committee for the Defence of Human Rights.

A provisional list of victims includes:

Wounded:

Enghia Boukhers, a Sahrawi human rights activis
Mettou El Bar
Hindou El Bar
Roughaya Lebsir
Ennaha Saaid
Ghleila Hassni
Eghleila Youssef, and child
Ezahra Faten
Elbourhimi Essalka
Edawdi Edeicha

Ransacked Homes:

The house of the political prisoner Ghali Essaidi Mahmoud Bahaha
The house of Sidi Ould Essiid
The house of Mahmoud Ould Sattaf
The house of Ahl Salki Ould Ehmeiad
The house of Echikhi Mohamed Salem
The house of Ahl Labat Meilad
The house of Ahl Aaloua
The house of Ahl El Bar
The house of Ahl Mansour
The house of Ahl Beye
The house of Ahl Ali Ould Enafaa
The house of Ahl Bouzeid Ould Bey

Arrests:

Ahmed Leabeid Elbachir
Brahim Cheikhi
Abdati Dadaha Boumrah
Mansari Ghali
Hakim Ould Mohamed Elbakar
Ould Salek Elbatal
Elmahfoud Salek Abdelwadoud
Laabeidi Salek Abdelwadoud
Lahoucine Abeya Mohamed Fadel
Ahmed Mohamed Ould Omar Dalea
Abdallah Cheihab
Mohamed Almi Beini
Mohamed Ould Allati
Mohamed Saleh Lehbib Bouhnana
Mohamed Embarek Bada
Mahmoud Ould Ahmed Chrif
Lahbabi Dadi
Lahbabi Ahmed
Ballah Ould Embarek Ahmed
Lahcen Mohamed Embarek Bahnan

The Sahrawi youth, Mr. Brahim Cheikhi (born 1988) was incarcerated in the Black Prison at El-Ayoune, and is currently in the juvenile wing (minors), while Moroccan police is still hunting for a number of other young people.

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