Evénements de Laâyoune: Le New York Times spécule sur l'implication de militants d'Al

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Washington- Revenant sur les incidents survenus dernièrement à Laâyoune, le New York Times décrit, dans son édition de jeudi, des bandes de "voyous armés de machettes qui ont détourné une manifestation pacifique de son objet", en spéculant sur l'"implication de militants d'Al-Qaeda".

La publication revient, à ce propos, sur l'enregistrement vidéo qui donne à voir des scènes "macabres" de ces bandes armées, en s'arrêtant sur "un individu au visage cagoulé en train de trancher la gorge d'un agent de l'ordre marocain couché face contre terre et un autre qui urinait sur le cadavre d'un pompier".

"Ces méthodes d'exécution sauvage et préméditée nourrissent les spéculations sur l'implication de militants d'Al-Qaeda", relève la publication américaine, qui a illustré cet article de la photo des parents en pleurs d'un des agents de l'ordre assassiné par ces milices armées.

Au sujet du bilan des personnes décédées lors de ces incidents, qui a été exagéré par le polisario, l'envoyé spécial du journal américain à Laâyoune n'a pas manqué de relever que "la vérité n'allait pas tarder à prouver le contraire" et battre en brèche les allégations des séparatistes.

Le journal rappelle que des bandes armées ont attaqué les forces de l'ordre marocaines et tué 11 agents, selon des bilans concordants fournis par la police et étayés par des témoins et des représentants des organisations des droits de l'Homme.

Le New York Times rappelle, par ailleurs, que le Maroc avait présenté en 2007 un plan d'autonomie au Sahara, sous souveraineté marocaine, une initiative saluée notamment par les Etats Unis et la France.
 
Si une relation est dévoilée entre les bandes terroristes dans le sahara et le Polizebbal, ces derniers devront rendre des comptes, et notamment ceux qui les hébergent sur leur sol...
 
Les presses qui se respectent relatent les faits tels qu'ils se sont produits ,prennent le temps et la peine de vérifier la véracité des informations qu'elles donnent ,analysent objectivement les évènements par respect pour la vérité.
Les autres qui n'ont aucun sens de l'honneur font comme une certaine presse espagnole ,de la désinformation ,de la manipulation et font passer des mensonges pour des faits avérés.
 
d'un côté on a le New York Times, journal prestigieux, qui sur le conflit du sahara occidental, pose un regard objectif et réaliste, de l'autre côté on a la presse tabloid, celle de la racaille et des vautours, la presse espagnole El Mundo/ El pais, voulant donner des leçons de droits de l'homme au Maroc et usant et abusant de mensonges grossiers allant jusqu'à la falsification des faits.
 
il faut savoir une choses que l'organisation AQMI, est bien planté dans le sahel, dont les terroriste polizbal ont tendance à faire parvenir des combattants terroriste à alQaeda, on a vu leur signature en égorgeant un de nos gendarme.
 
bedji a dit:
......la presse espagnole El Mundo/ El pais, voulant donner des leçons de droits de l'homme au Maroc et usant et abusant de mensonges grossiers...
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Oui et leur derniére trouvaille c'est d'accuser le Maroc de projeter de couper "l'eau" à Sebta et Melilia !
Accusation "gratuite" démentie par Khalid Naciri aujourd'hui !
 
.S. Congressman Calls Morocco Key Counterterrorism 'Ally;' Warns that a Polisario-led 'Fake Microstate' in Western Sahara Would Create Instability, Export Terrorism

Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart denounces recent "cynical attempts at purposeful disinformation" about Western Sahara on House floor
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On Tuesday, Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart (R-FL) called Morocco "our [U.S.] ally in North Africa in the struggle against international terrorism" during a speech before the U.S. House of Representatives. Diaz-Balart, who chairs the House's Morocco Caucus, reiterated the clear, longstanding U.S. support for a compromise solution based on autonomy under Moroccan sovereignty in the Western Sahara and warned against certain "Castro-style repression" in a Polisario-led "fake microstate."
"The future of America's struggle against international terrorism and the stability of Northern Africa require that the Government and the Congress of the United States continue to stand firmly and clearly with our friend and ally, the Kingdom of Morocco," Rep. Diaz-Balart declared before the U.S. House.
"The reality of Moroccan sovereignty over the Sahara enjoys the support of the entire population of Morocco, including the Sahara itself," Rep. Diaz-Balart reminded his colleagues. "For over a decade, Mr. Speaker, Morocco has agreed to grant a genuine and profound autonomy to the Sahara under Moroccan sovereignty in order to reach a realistic and definitive solution to this problem, but Algeria and the so-called Polisario continue to insist on the creation of a fake microstate. HM King Mohammed VI and his negotiating team have demonstrated great courage and patience in dealing with this critical issue so closely tied to the security of the entire region. Majorities in this Congress comprising both Republicans and Democrats have spoken clearly in support of our ally Morocco's position on this critical issue in letters we have sent, first to President Bush, and then to President Obama. The United States, during both administrations and with the strong leadership of Secretary of State Rice and Secretary of State Clinton, has agreed with the position expressed by the overwhelming majority of this Congress."
"Then, as now, the so-called Polisario group is financed by Algeria and is propped up by Castro's Communist dictatorship in Cuba." Diaz-Balart continued, "Let us never forget that such a microstate would serve as a focal point of regional instability and destabilization, as well as an exporter of terrorism."
For the full video of Rep. Diaz-Balart's statement, visit:
 
http://www.c-/spanvideo.org/videoLibrary/clip.php?appid=599253872.
Rep. Diaz-Balart also joined many in the international community by denouncing inaccurate, inflammatory media coverage of recent events in Laayoune (Western Sahara), in southern Morocco as "biased" and "cynical attempts at purposeful disinformation." Today, in letters appearing in The Hill, Robert M. Holley, Executive Director of the Moroccan American Center for Policy, and the American Council for Moroccan POWs also strongly criticized grossly distorted allegations run earlier by the publication.
"[D]istortions [which appeared in the publication] dishonor the lives of the 11 Moroccan police officers savagely killed by violent, pro-Polisario militants who infiltrated what began as a peaceful social protest over economic issues near Laayoune," wrote Mr. Holley in The Hill. "These police officers were armed only with non-lethal weapons […] [these distorted] allegations have been repeatedly denounced by the international human rights community."
The Moroccan American Center for Policy (MACP) is a non-profit organization whose principal mission is to inform opinion makers, government officials and interested publics in the United States about political and social developments in Morocco and the role being played by the Kingdom of Morocco in broader strategic developments in North Africa, the Mediterranean, and the Middle East. For more, please visit www.moroccanamericanpolicy.org.
This material is distributed by the Moroccan American Center for Policy on behalf of the Government of Morocco. Additional information is available at the Department of Justice in Washington, DC.
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Desert Land in Limbo Is Torn Apart

LAAYOUNE, Western Sahara — Dozens of buildings are still blackened from fire on this remote desert city’s main boulevard, their windows shattered, their doors boarded up. A hostile silence has reigned since the riot that broke out here last month, leaving 11 Moroccan officers dead and hundreds of people injured.

The violence — the worst seen here in decades — has renewed a long-festering conflict between Morocco, which governs Western Sahara, and the separatist Polisario Front, based in and supported by neighboring Algeria.

Many fear the episode will sow more chaos in this Colorado-size territory on the Atlantic coast, or even create an opening for Al Qaeda, which has gained a foothold in neighboring countries in northwest Africa in recent years.

“There are real social tensions in Laayoune, but they are being fueled by the cold war between Morocco and Algeria,” said Tlaty Tarik, a political analyst. “This situation is becoming more dangerous, because of the violence and because Al Qaeda is now present in the region.”

The riot began after the police evacuated a protest camp set up just outside this city by Sahrawis, the once nomadic native people of the area, who are now outnumbered by wealthier Moroccan emigrants from the north. Knife-wielding thugs — who may have had a political agenda — appear to have hijacked the peaceful protest. The security forces later retaliated, detaining and beating dozens of Sahrawis, according to witnesses and a report by Human Rights Watch.

Ever since, divisions appear to have deepened, both among the Sahrawis themselves, and with Moroccans living in this newly built city of tidy houses.

“After what happened, nothing feels normal, and people don’t feel safe here,” said a 25-year-old Sahrawi man named Laghdaf, who was sitting on the steps of a half-built cinder-block house recently. Some Sahrawis blame members of their own community, he said. Others say the Moroccan state has treated them unjustly.

The unrest has spread beyond Western Sahara. On Sunday, hundreds of thousands of Moroccans rallied in Casablanca, denouncing Spanish political parties and newspapers that had accused Morocco of carrying out a massacre in Laayoune.

A fog of rumors and propaganda has helped obscure the facts about what happened here last month. The Polisario Front still maintains that the Moroccan authorities carried out a massacre after evacuating the camp, where about 12,000 people had gathered to protest social and economic conditions. “More than 30 people were killed,” some of them buried alive, Ahmed Boukhari, the Polisario representative at the United Nations, said in a telephone interview. Similar stories have appeared in the Algerian press.
 
The truth, it soon emerged, was virtually the opposite: knife-wielding gangs from the camp attacked unarmed Moroccan security officers, killing 11 of them, according to the police, witnesses and human rights advocates. Gruesome video footage captured during the attacks shows one masked man deftly cutting the throat of a prone Moroccan officer, and another urinating on the body of a dead fireman.

The savage and premeditated style of the killings prompted speculation that Qaeda-style militants might have been involved, but there is no evidence of that. Two or three civilians died, by most accounts, in what appeared to have been accidents. All told, 238 officers were injured, said Mohamed Dkhissi, the city’s police prefect.

“We had to choose: a muscular intervention that risked mass casualties, or not to use force,” said Mohamed Jelmous, the governor of the Laayoune district.

But the arrests and beatings that took place afterward could spread more anger among young Sahrawis, rights groups say.

Moroccan officials concede that the tensions here are rooted partly in their own mistakes. They have doled out land and money to new Sahrawi refugees from Polisario-controlled areas, a policy aimed at winning hearts and minds that has angered the original Sahrawi residents. “There has been corruption and poor administration, and this has fed the anger,” said Mohamed Taleb, the director of a government-aligned human rights group here.

The problem is also partly a colonial legacy. Morocco first occupied Western Sahara in 1975, after the Spanish, who had ruled it as a colony for almost a century, withdrew. The Polisario, formed with Algerian support, demanded independence for the region. It began waging a guerrilla war and lobbied other countries to recognize a Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic with Laayoune as its capital. It had some success (mostly among African nations), though the number of supporters waxed and waned according to political expediency.

The United Nations helped broker a cease-fire in 1991, with the agreement that a referendum would be held to decide whether Western Sahara would be independent or remain part of Morocco. That has not happened, because Morocco and the Polisario cannot agree on who should be allowed to take part.

In the meantime, Morocco has poured money into Laayoune, making the debate over independence almost an anachronism. What was once a Spanish fort and a cluster of tents is now a modern city of 300,000, a profitable hub for fishing and phosphate mining with its own airport. Sahrawis now constitute less than 40 percent of the population. Independence would in all likelihood turn Laayoune into an Algerian satellite. Moroccans in the north, who are keenly aware of the money their government has spent here, say that prospect is intolerable.
 
In 2007, Morocco proposed that Western Sahara be granted autonomy under Moroccan sovereignty, an idea that found favor with the United States and France. Many Sahrawis seem to like the idea. Earlier this year, the former security chief of the Polisario, Mustapha Salma, who went to Laayoune under a program of exchange visits, publicly declared his support for the autonomy proposal. But the Polisario has held firm to its demands for independence. When Mr. Salma returned to the Polisario’s base in Algeria, he was arrested. He then disappeared, and is now reported to be in Mauritania.

Diplomacy aside, some Sahrawis say they have never been truly accepted by the Moroccan authorities, and feel that they are living under an occupation, even if they believe independence is not a viable option. Joblessness among young Sahrawis, many say, is a cause of the violence.

“All Sahrawis live in fear,” said Ghania Djeini, the director of a human rights group. “There is now a hatred between Moroccans and Sahrawis, and the attacks on security forces show this hatred.”

Ms. Djeini reeled off grievances like job discrimination, government corruption and “disappearances” that took place in the 1980s and 90s. These disappearances happened throughout Morocco during those years, not just in the Sahrawi area.

Since the events of Nov. 8, many Moroccans here have fresh grievances of their own. The bad blood does not bode well for Western Sahara’s future.

“What Algeria did is not right,” said Abderrahim Bougatya, the father of the officer whose throat was cut last month, as he sat next to his wife in the family living room, tears running down his cheeks. “They have burned our hearts. They have hurt us a lot.”

Bryan Denton contributed reporting.


http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/09/world/africa/09morocco.html
 
Financial Times ne s'est pas gêné pour relayer le fait que l'Irak possédait des armes de destructions massives donc ce journal n'est pas plus respectable qu'El Pais .
 
Angad1, on est tous d'accord sur le fait que le Polisario (et forcément derrière l'Algérie) ont fomenté ces évènements dramatiques (11 forces de l'ordre assassinées, décapitées et beaucoup de dégâts matériels,…)

Maintenant derrière il faut se rendre à l'évidence que les chioukhs de la tribu des oulad tidrarines n'ont de ce que j'ai compris jamais condamné la réaction disproportionnée des criminels et fauteurs de trouble et n'ont pas voulu se rendre à Casa pour la marche de solidarité nationale. Ok le Maroc ne peut pas les obliger à faire des choses contre leur gré et cela est une preuve de démocratie de la part du Maroc mais en même temps il y a dans ce cas des leçons à tirer de la position hostile de cette tribu qui prend encore une fois le prétexte de ne pas avoir été représenté dans le CORCAS.

Eh bien je suis désolé si les Oulad Tidrarine se disent "démocratiques" pour demander une représentation de leur tribu dans des institutions sahraouies marocaines officielles (CORCAS, gouverneurs de régions,…) alors cela veut dire 2 choses:
1/ Il n' y a pas de peuple sahraoui mais des tribus sahraouies. Dans ce cas il est contradictoire de vouloir un état sahraoui. Ils devraient plutôt demander un état "Tidrarine", un autre "R'guibat", etc…
Bien sûr c'est une démonstration du ridicule et c'est ce qui a valu à la Yougoslavie d'exploser puisque serbes et croates puis monténégrins et kosovars faisaient attention à l'origine des dirigeants.
Le Maroc doit veiller à ne pas favoriser ce type d'attitude, par contre il doit veiller à ce que les dirigeants sahraouis nommés ne fassent pas de clientélisme par rapport à leurs tribus d'origine.

Aujourd'hui on est mal parti puisque cela fait 35 ans que l'état marocain prend en considération les desiratas et caprices de chaque tribu: ce n'est pas comme cela qu'on bâtit un état!

2/ La réponse des Oulad Tidrarine n'a pas été démocratique en assassinant des forces de l'ordre marocaines et en sacageant les batiments publics et privés, exclusivement ceux appartenant à des marocains "non sahrawis". C'est scandaleux et défendre cela c'est obligatoirement défendre le séparatisme.
Aux officiels marocains de faire leur analyse mais il faudra parler entre 4 yeux à certains chioukhs marocains qui pour certains sont des ralliés et leur rappeler qu'il y a UN état le Maroc avec des droits et des devoirs et que les marocains ne peuvent pas être divisé en sahrawis et non sahrawis.
 
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