Sahrawi associations strongly denounce 'lies' of Ali Lamrabet
Morocco, Politics, 2/1/2005

Members of a dozen of Sahrawi associations have strongly denounced the recent statements of the journalist Ali Lamrabet as "very offensive," an insult to the memory of the people who sacrificed their lives for the dignity of the country and a profanation of the graves of the brave and valiant soldiers of the Royal Armed Forces who died in the field of honour in the service of the homeland.

In a joint communique, the associations stressed that the best evidence of Ali Lamrabet's clear intention to harm his country and his people, is his visit to Tindouf camps "where thousands of our brothers, whose only aspiration is to return to their families in the Moroccan Sahara, are held against their will, and where 410 members of the Royal Armed Forces are still held captive in contempt of law."

The best illustration of his treason is his dubious testimony on an alleged liberty of movement in these camps, while this place consists in reality of huge pieces of land organized in the shape of a penitentiary with sentinels and watchtowers, the associations said.

"Those among us who managed to flee this cursed place to return to homeland, Morocco, have defied death. They were aware of this fact. Many of them paid the price with their lives È, said the associations.

The communiquŽ went on to say that using his natural skill for invective, Lamrabet recently announced again his intention to edit a publication, pointing out with a highly provocative wisecrack that it will be funded by the "Polisario and former Algerian military security.

Such heinous statements, made on purpose, necessitate an appropriate reaction from Moroccan authorities, in such a way as to make the antidote match the harm sustained, the associations said adding that "however, we members of the afore-mentioned associations have noticed that public authorities have deserted this field, leaving this person defile with impunity our patriotic values and our honour. They have kept an incomprehensible, even guilty silence, which we deplore."

The associations said they "do not understand neither the absence of a reaction from representatives of the people who are gathered in the two parliament chambers, nor the passivity of political parties and the civil society in all its components."

"The Sahara question is an issue that concerns the whole nation. Defending it is a national duty which no one can evade," they stressed.

"Our people can only exist as part of a comprehensive dignity. It is in this spirit that we urge the country's authorities and political forces to react as firmly as it is required by these circumstances," the associations said.

The organisations urged the international community to assume its full responsibility to open the Tindouf camps and lift the siege imposed on the Sahrawis in the Algerian territory.

"In face of these insults that undermine our honour and offend the memory of our martyrs, the latest of whom died as soon as he went out of the horrors of Tindouf camps, we commit to use all the legal means we have to make our voice heard, the associations concluded.

Lamrabet was criticised lately by journalist Bellahi Khalifa, who said he felt pity for him when he interviewed Mohamed Abdelaziz, that so perfectly carries out his mission of a jailer and "serves the orders of his masters with eagerness."

In a letter, published by the national press, Bellahi, former detainee in Polisario prisons, wondered how Lamrabet can come up with the idea that "my brothers, cousins and my tribe members are not sequestrated and are not under siege in the camps of Tindouf?"

The journalist wondered whether Lamrabet's "phenomenal intelligence" enabled him to reach this idea in a very short of time, for one doubts he could effectively meet the sequestrated people in such a short time and get information from them.

Bellahi said Lamrabet's refuting the existence of the siege and the sequestration "of our brothers in the Tindouf camps is a sheer lie, a false testimony made in premeditation and motivated by hatred, rancour and the desire to fool the world."

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