The incident occurred last Friday in the town of Oum Rjeim
Zak (southern Morocco) .- Two Saharawi children died last Friday after triggering a land mine in Morocco Oum Rjeim town in the region of Zak, in southern Morocco, the Ministry for the Occupied Territories and the Saharawi community abroad in a note to that seen by the Saharawi Communication Service Canarias (SCSC) .
The incident occurred shortly after noon on Friday, when children, Brahim and Abdul Haq Salami Salami, about ten years of age, grazing with cattle from their families, the report said.
One child died immediately after the mine explosion, while the second died in hospital where he was admitted after a long wait for an ambulance, said court sources cited by the same source.
The Polisario Front has destroyed his stok of landmines, thereby requiring the international community put pressure on Morocco to destroy its mines, which "make no difference between a child and a soldier." This initiative, remember that occurs in Call response Geneva launched in 2000 by members of the international campaign against landmines.
Rabat has not signed the 1997 Ottawa Treaty banning the use of antipersonnel mines, building a long wall of sand more than 2000 kilometers, fortified by heavy weapons, trenches, barbed wire and soldiers, which divides the people of Western Sahara and its territory into two parts. (SCSC)
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