* Source and photos: Sahara Communication Service of the Canary Islands and Sahrawi human rights activists.
The popular reception of human rights activist Sultana Jaya is settled with many Saharawi civilians wounded. Returning from Spain, where he received medical treatment for the loss of an eye at the hands of Moroccan police in Laayoune Marrakech
.- During the day yesterday, August 18, Moroccan police "conducted a brutal intervention in around the airport of Laayoune, Western Sahara's capital, to prevent popular hosting a large number of Sahrawi citizens were prepared to Human Rights activist Sultana Jaya ", returning from Spain after several months of medical treatment for injuries received in Marrakech by Moroccan security forces on May 9, 2007 and who caused the loss of an eye, as reported by the Committee to Defend the Right to Self-determination for the Saharawi People (CODAPSO) in a note sent to a Communication Service Saharawi Canarias (SCSC).
Saharawi The organization claims that "all access to the Sahrawi capital remained under tight police control, military and security throughout the day in anticipation of the arrival of Sultana" and the same happened in Boujdour, a city which I thought moving the human rights activist "and along the entire route connecting the two points." Also, "there were several police charges with great brutality and violation the home of many Saharawi citizens, especially those related to the defense of human rights in the territory of the Sahara occupied by Morocco. "
Among the "numerous injuries", quoted CODAPSO Fatma Amidan Saharawi citizens, Dhaiba Samhi, Izana Amidan, Sara Abdo, Abdelghani Kabdana, Saadani Olaya, Said Hadad and Salha Boutenguiza and claims that the hospital in the city that were taken by family and friends, "refuses to provide medical certificates from their injuries to prevent them from bringing those responsible to justice," the statement said.
Sultana's case is not unique. Saharawi women has been since the occupation Moroccan Western Sahara in 1975 on the stone pyramid that has settled the strength of its people. Rape, torture, ill treatment, arbitrary arrests, forced abortions, killing babies, kidnapping and disappearances of their children are the weapons being deployed against them day after day for 33 years, as confirmed by international organizations as much credibility as Amnesty International or Human Rights Watch. Sultana is one of them, an event that symbolizes the tragedy of each and every one of the Saharawi women, mothers, daughters and sisters, a tragedy which only arouses the interest of the international community and governments that are called democratic .
On May 9, 2007, Sultana Jaya, a young Sahrawi Bojador natural "banished" by the occupation authorities in the Sahara to Moroccan territory for their participation in peaceful demonstrations in defense of human rights, participated in a sit alongside fellow students at the University of Marrakech. Suddenly, hundreds of riot police units charged against the few tens of Sahrawi students chanted slogans and Sultana was "savagely beaten". Result of "beating" the beautiful young Saharawi lost an eye.
Holding in his hands, was taken to the police station Lafnaa Jamaa. Without assistance any medical, Sultana was interrogated for hours on the brink of unconsciousness. Still, still reminds one of the officers telling a partner to hit him over and then lost his one eye and he comes to your mind the image of the police cats licking his blood while he lay on the floor. Today, recovering in Spain in the aftermath of the savage aggression, just waiting to return to the Sahara while trying to raise awareness of the situation faced by the Saharawi in their own land.
In November 2008, Sultana Jaya told the SCSC: "We have enough belief in the justness of our cause and can withstand a hundred years, Patience is a `defect 'of the nomads of the desert but we will never break." (SCSC)
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