Basicly what I wanted to mention!

This is from another blog (http://www.codapso.org/en/node/1728) writing about some of the stuff I had written about myself. The post is a week old, and the number of people living in tents outside El Aiun is said to have passed 20 000. I would really like to know if anyone has heard about this in Norway. Polisario is c...alling on the UN to protect the people in the area, and to secure access to medicin, food, water and clothes, and to force Morocco to let the mediq in, but nothing hqs been done so far. The demonstrations has been going on for almost a month.

27 October 2010: Amnesty
International is calling on the Moroccan authorities to immediately
investigate the fatal checkpoint shooting of a 14-year old boy outside
a camp set up by Sahrawi protestors.Since 10 October 2010, thousands of Sahrawis have collectively left Laayoune to set up a camp in the desert about 10-13 kilometres east of the city. Some Sahrawi human rights defenders say that the camp
population has reached the tens of thousands; official sources reported
that there were 5,000 people last week in the camp.


Western Sahara is a territory contested between Morocco, which
annexed it 1975, and the Polisario Front, which calls for its
independence and runs a self-declared government in exile in the
Tindouf refugee camps in Algeria.

According to his relatives, Al-Nagem Al-Qarhi was shot dead on 24
October by Moroccan military officers, while in a car bringing supplies
to a camp set up by Sahrawi protesters demanding an end to their
economic marginalization by the Moroccan government.
“The disturbing details of this killing that must be
investigated immediately and transparently”, said Amnesty
International. “Morocco needs to show that it has not violated UN
standards on the use of firearms, or used excessive force as it chokes
off access, supplies and communications to the Sahrawi protest
camp.”

Al-Nagem died almost immediately after being shot in the kidney at
close range by Moroccan military forces as he sat in a car with six
others at a checkpoint, the victim’s sister Sayida has told
Amnesty International. The Moroccan Ministry of Interior has claimed that the car
“attacked a checkpoint”, and that the checkpoint was fired
on, but from another vehicle. Family members say the passengers
were seated when they were shot, and that they were bringing supplies
to relatives living in the protest camp. The other passengers in the car with Al-Nagem were also injured in the shooting, and then beaten by Moroccan police, according to Sayida’s testimony. The surviving victims were transferred
to a military hospital in the nearby city of Laayoune, where they were
found handcuffed to their beds when family members visited them the
next day. One has since been detained, and two taken in for
questioning. According to his family, Al-Nagem was buried the next evening by the Moroccan authorities, who have refused to allow his mother and siblings to see the body or tell them the location of the burial site.

The Moroccan military has kept a heavy presence around the camp,
established on 10 October by Sahrawis who left the city of Laayoune and
other Western Sahara cities en masse to demand improved job
opportunities and housing.Today a group of about ten Spanish journalists were prevented from entering the camp by the police. Last week, Moroccan officials are
reported to have used batons and teargas to prevent over a hundred
people travelling in cars from reaching the camp with supplies.
Amnesty International has called for the respect of Sahrawi
protesters’ right to freedom of assembly and warned that no
excessive force should be used to disperse protestors, in a letter
addressed last week to the Moroccan Minister of Interior.

Thanks to Codapso! (http://www.codapso.org/en/node/1728)