Young Saharan killed in confrontations in al-Oyoun city
Morocco-Algeria, Politics, 11/1/2005

News reports said that confrontations took place on Sunday between Sahara local citizens and the Moroccan forces in al-Oyoun city, and resulted in killing one young Sahara man from the city called Hamdi al-Mubaraki.

The chairman of the "society of families and victims of the oppression in Tanduf camps" al-Hussein Bu Eida told al-Jazeera satellite TV that the young man was killed on Sunday in a demonstration in al-Oyoun streets, during which two young men carrying the Sahara flag were arrested.

Bu Eida added that the young man was murdered after the Moroccan police forces had beaten him.

Morocco accuses Algeria of supporting the Sahara people to split from the Kingdom since 30 years under the pretext of supporting independence.

Rabat is persistent to reject the split of what it called the southern regions of Morocco. The name it gives to the under dispute west Sahara since the withdrawal of the Spanish occupation forces three decades before.

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