Sahrawi activist is willing to die "for a just cause."
Haidar has asked the international community to put pressure on Morocco to respect human rights primarily in Western Sahara, before reaching a political settlement. So he said in an interview in Washington in which he said it is willing to die "for a just cause, as demonstrated by the hunger strike that lasted for 32 days in the Canary Islands of Lanzarote airport in 2009.
In his defense of the right to self-determination Haidar Saharawi people is meeting with State Department officials and U.S. congressmen.
"It's not fair that after 35 years a nation that is illegally occupied by Morocco is divided by a wall and its people suffer daily repression to defend their right to freedom," he said.
"We need U.S. support to exercise our right as any people in the world," he said.
activist who in 2008 received the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights in the U.S. Senate, said that when he speaks of human rights violations concerning all fundamental freedoms. Although
the EU demanded respect for human rights in Morocco summit recently held in Granada (Spain), continuing abuses against the Saharawi he said.
He cited the repression suffered by a group of demonstrators on 10 March in the neighborhood of Maatala, including Meriam Mghizlat was a 20 year old who was beaten.
"I'm not talking about last year but a few days ago," Haidar said while showing pictures Mghizlat disfigured face, the wounds of Raguibi Hayat, 18, and ElMussaoui Degnan, who broke her front teeth.
also recalled that there are six activists who are hunger strike pending a court martial accused of visiting the Saharawi camps where their families.
"So I say that before reaching a final settlement, a political solution, we must put pressure on Morocco to respect human rights," he argued.
To do this, think it should strengthen the role of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO), to include human rights monitoring, despite the opposition of Rabat.
Morocco submitted in 2007 a proposal that offered an autonomy plan for Western Sahara referendum without the possibility of for independence, as demanded by the Polisario Front. Paper
Spain
In his view, Spain could have a "very important" in resolving the conflict and "play the same role of Portugal in the case of Timor, as the former metropolis.
But, according to Haidar, Spain, "unfortunately, is supporting one way or another Moroccan occupation and so far has not fulfilled its legal, political and historical with the Saharawi people," he said.
Spain would have to recognize the right of self determination and that "clearly" Morocco is illegally occupying Western Sahara and to demand the referendum, "he added.
In this regard, he regretted that bilateral relations and economic interests" are above all. "
" Something that has resulted in my case of Lanzarote, in my deportation forced the Sahara, and Spain was complicit in this, "he said.
"It's not fair that after 35 years a nation that is illegally occupied by Morocco is divided by a wall and its people suffer daily repression to defend their right to freedom," he said.
"We need U.S. support to exercise our right as any people in the world," he said.
activist who in 2008 received the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights in the U.S. Senate, said that when he speaks of human rights violations concerning all fundamental freedoms. Although
the EU demanded respect for human rights in Morocco summit recently held in Granada (Spain), continuing abuses against the Saharawi he said.
He cited the repression suffered by a group of demonstrators on 10 March in the neighborhood of Maatala, including Meriam Mghizlat was a 20 year old who was beaten.
"I'm not talking about last year but a few days ago," Haidar said while showing pictures Mghizlat disfigured face, the wounds of Raguibi Hayat, 18, and ElMussaoui Degnan, who broke her front teeth.
also recalled that there are six activists who are hunger strike pending a court martial accused of visiting the Saharawi camps where their families.
"So I say that before reaching a final settlement, a political solution, we must put pressure on Morocco to respect human rights," he argued.
To do this, think it should strengthen the role of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO), to include human rights monitoring, despite the opposition of Rabat.
Morocco submitted in 2007 a proposal that offered an autonomy plan for Western Sahara referendum without the possibility of for independence, as demanded by the Polisario Front. Paper
Spain
In his view, Spain could have a "very important" in resolving the conflict and "play the same role of Portugal in the case of Timor, as the former metropolis.
But, according to Haidar, Spain, "unfortunately, is supporting one way or another Moroccan occupation and so far has not fulfilled its legal, political and historical with the Saharawi people," he said.
Spain would have to recognize the right of self determination and that "clearly" Morocco is illegally occupying Western Sahara and to demand the referendum, "he added.
In this regard, he regretted that bilateral relations and economic interests" are above all. "
" Something that has resulted in my case of Lanzarote, in my deportation forced the Sahara, and Spain was complicit in this, "he said.
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