of Saharan life in the territories illegally occupied by Morocco for comfort. For 35 years, the natural resources of this town have been looted by the Alawite kingdom. The Moroccan police repression is systematic and at times the authorities have gone so far as to legitimize the mass of settlers assaults against the Sahrawi citizens.
On 2 August, the Moroccan police starred in another of his brutally barbarous when loaded into a group of Sahrawi participating in a strike called by the Trade Union Confederation of Workers. Sidi Ahmed Eddia reported via email, the demonstration was intended to denounce the policy of impoverishment and racial segregation practiced in Morocco. Another
demands of the demonstration was the complaint in violation of labor rights of workers Fosbucraa Saharan society, whose contracts are still valid since the English occupation, however, are violated by Morocco since 1977, when it invalidated without the consent of the workers.
Since then, employees do not enjoy any of the rights contained in the clauses, such as monthly salary based on 30 or 31 days instead of 26, the exemption of income tax for employees who have four or more children, housing subsidies, free admission to the hospital for retirees and workers, including referrals to social coverage.
However, none of the English workers of society no longer enjoy each of the rights that are denied them.
Among workers, and military officials counted about 24 000 people affected by similar discriminatory measures. In Fosbucraa are about 1 500.
It was barely 8:45 am when protesters were found in Smara Boulevard, facing the direction of the Ministry of Energy and Mines. Fifteen minutes after authorities surrounded the site suddenly and brutally attacked pensioners gathered there for a peaceful protest. The outcome of the beating was several protesters were injured, mostly with head injuries, extremities and spine.
is not the first time this happens, Sidi Ahmed tells Eddie, and explains that violence has always been the Moroccan government's response to peaceful demonstrations to demand the rights of the Saharawi workers, ending the plundering of natural resources, and the holding of a referendum they can vote for the independence of their country.
clean Only a referendum that includes the right to self will end the suffering people. However, Morocco is still clinging to its autonomy proposal, while presumed to want to find a solution to the conflict. A few days ago the King Mohamed VI said he would not give an inch to respect international law back and resolutions of United Nations and the African Union.
Repeatedly, Morocco has claimed that invests in the Sahara a part of what goes by the illegal exploitation of Saharawi natural resources. But from Laayoune, the capital of the occupied territories, Sidi Ahmed Eddie denies it: "Life here is difficult, there is poverty, discrimination, abrogation of all freedoms", and clarifies that the millions of euros in revenue from the exploitation of Sahara's natural resources go directly into the coffers of the Kingdom of Morocco.
Again, the Saharawi workers met in the Smara Boulevard, opposite the Ministry of Energy and Mines August 9, to protest the abuse of natural resources and racist and discriminatory policy of Morocco, against the silence of the auotoridades of Rabat to the Saharawi workers' demands. According to Ahmed Sidi told us Eddia, ranked police to prevent the protest, through deployment of the units in the streets leading to the place of concentration.
* The image shows the police taking the place of the protest. Photo sent by Sidi Ahmed Eddia
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