Madrid (Spain) — Saharawi human rights activists and Alternative Nobel Prize Laureate, Ms. Aminatou Haidar, called on the Spanish government to put an end to the severe hemorrhagic loss of its dignity and its total submission in front of the Moroccan regime of occupation, in an article she published yesterday in Spanish media outlet, "Lamarea.com".
The article was published on the 50th anniversary of the forced disappearance of Saharawi political leader, Mohamed Sidi Brahim Basiri, and marks the adherence by Aminatou to a large campaign launched by Spanish civil society organizations and imminent personalities, to call on the Spanish Government to unveil the truth about the fate of Basiri and what Spain committed against Saharawis during the crackdown against Saharawi Intifada of 1970.
Following is a translation of the article, originally in Spanish and Arabic:
The disappearance of Basiri and the hemorrhagic loss of dignity by the Spanish "democracy"
History will never erase the shame of the Spanish government for its historical and shameful treason to the people of the then "Spanish" Sahara, actually Saharawi Republic/Western Sahara, no matter how hard Spanish political elite will try to cover the Sun of truth with the sieve of disgraceful positions.
Later, Spain would deny all this in an endless series of betrayals such as the crime against humanity committed by the Spanish authorities against the Sahrawi peaceful protesters of the "Zemla" Intifada, the disappearance of the leader of the Saharawi national movement at the time, Mohamed Sidi Brahim Bassiri; the secret signature of a treacherous tripartite agreement to divide Western Sahara in two and abandoning the Saharawi people preventing them from enjoying their right to decolonization and self-determination like the rest of African countries; the abandon of thousands of Saharawi civilians and their exposure to the bombardment with napalm and white phosphorous, persecution and annihilation by the ally of Madrid, the Moroccan regime of occupation.
Today, as a Saharawi militant and former victim of forced disappearance who suffered repression and terrible torture in the Moroccan secret detention camps, I personally join this commendable initiative to tell the Spanish State that I hold on to all my rights, those same rights that the Spanish Government treacherously wanted to deny me on many occasions.
