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Palma 05/04/2010 WORLD activist Aminatou Haidar today deplored the "culture of silence" maintained by the central government in the Sahara conflict and that it regards as would have to "intervene" to defend the right of self determination of the people. However, I thanked the International Award Jovellanos 'Resistance and freedom' that will be delivered this afternoon to understand that it is awarded to a population that "continues to suffer after 35 years."
Thus, Haidar has been asking the international community to launch "a mechanism for protecting human rights" in Western Sahara until they can reach a "final settlement" between the territory and Morocco.
In a press conference at the Castell de Bellver before receiving the award in recognition of their struggle for democratic values, Haidar said being "very recovered" but with some "stomach problems" after the hunger strike that lasted for 32 days at the airport of Lanzarote.
activist was very grateful for international solidarity and support of English civil society and considered a "pride and privilege" to pay tribute to the award to a "brave man" as it was Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos.
"There is a reward that I give it to me, but that goes for all the Saharawi people who suffered and still suffers after 35 years," he has said Haidar, who added that we be for "international solidarity and action of the English civil society" might not have lived to receive the award.
During the event, as to the Sahara conflict, said the French Government's position is "quite different" from that held by the English and said the first "blocking position" and does "nothing positive" to contribute to a "peaceful resolution."
Haidar calls for a mechanism to protect human rights in Sahara
criticizes the "culture of silence" maintained by the English Government in the Sahara conflict
A LEADING Palma. (EFE) .- The Saharawi activist Haidar has called upon the international community today the launch of "a mechanism of protection of human rights" in Western Sahara until they can reach a "final settlement" between the territory and Morocco. Haidar
has made this request during a press conference in Palma, to present the award to the International Prize activist I Jovellanos entitled Resistance and Freedom, organized by the regional governments of Asturias and the Balearic and host this evening.
activist has been defined as "extremely pleased" to talk about the prize at the Castillo de Bellver, where Jovellanos, "a brave man, he spent seven years locked without going through a trial and without any legal argument to justify it. "It brings a series of very painful memories of the four years I spent in a hidden and secret, blindfolded, completely isolated from the outside, a where I suffered both physical and psychological torture and being there without going through any court, without being heard by any judge, "he reported.
Haidar also referred to the" sad reminder "of more than 500 Saharawi people who since 1976 have disappeared and nothing is known of them, "as well as the current 50 political prisoners" arrested as prisoners of conscience, twenty of whom maintain a hunger strike for 18 days.
activist has said he is "very recovered", but still suffers from stomach ailments as a result of the hunger strike that lasted for 32 days at the airport in Lanzarote, to demand that she be allowed to return to Laayoune after being expelled from Morocco and having been held a passport.
has criticized the French position on the conflict "to deny the existence of the Saharawi people and to deny a legitimate claim as self-determination" and demanded that the English government does not keep "his silence about the abuses of human rights that are suffering a population that is almost English. " Haidar
said that he sees "many signs of progress" in the Western Sahara conflict, where "every day there are activists who are imprisoned" and violates fundamental rights. Has detailed the 9th and 10th of March, a peaceful demonstration was "severely repressed."
As an activist and advocate for human rights, Haidar has said he tries to steer young people towards the path of nonviolent resistance, "the only one can take to achieve peace." "I can not tell if the younger generation who are repressed on a daily basis, you will have patience to continue with peaceful resistance," he warned Haidar, who has called for this reason intervention international community.
The Sahara has said it considers "very proud" to receive the award that bears the name of Jovellanos, whom he described as a brave man and an "inspiration." "There is a reward that I give it to me, but is meant for all the Saharawi people who suffered and still suffers after 35 years," he has said Haidar, who added that we'd be for "international solidarity and the action of the English civil society "during the hunger strike held last December, may not have lived to receive the award.
"I think this award is intended for all human rights defenders who have contributed to disclose the serious and grave abuses by the Moroccan government against the Sahrawi people, "said Haidar.
President of the Balearic Government, Francesc Antich, Haidar thanked for accepting the award, established to distinguish particular who have been persecuted for defending human rights. Antich has indicated that Haidar has granted "by the tenacity with which he has been able to give testimony of the principles that relies on the exercise of freedom and the value that has withstood the pressures against their legitimate personal will.
President of the Principality of Asturias, Vicente Álvarez, reiterated that the award would stress "the excellency of dignity of men and women who languish in the claim, the defense and propagation of human rights, equality between men and women and free participation in promoting democratic and pluralistic societies. "
On behalf of the jury, the writer Barbara Probst Solomon, emphasized the courage of the award, and has confessed to being "dumbfounded by all that has been Aminatu, with its tremendous struggle."
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