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Morocco World News with Agencies
Washington, March 1, 2012
The Leadership Council for Human Rights (LCHR), one of the largest NGOs of human rights in the United States drew, on Tuesday, the attention of the United State Congress to “the destabilizing goals ” of Polisario in North Africa, which again demonstrate “bad faith” and “cynicism” of separatists.
The President and founder of LCHR Caucus of Human Rights Kathryn Cameron Porter, cited as evidence to the US Congress, “a confidential document of SADR, which reveals that the leader of the separatists, Abdelaziz El Marrakchi, finances personally some pro-Polisario elements in Morocco in order to foment intifada in the southern provinces of the Kingdom.”
“These leaks demonstrate again the bad faith of the leaders of the Polisario, who have held people hostage for over three decades, denying them their basic rights, without hope of a better future,” Ms Porter Cameron said in a statement.
She also stressed that, “the Moroccan autonomy plan in the Sahara, under Moroccan sovereignty, is more than ever, the only compromise solution able to be the cornerstone of a strong regional partnership.” The Polisario, she notes, “takes advantage of a situation of stalemate.”
Considering that it is time, at this juncture marked by the Arab Spring, “to stimulate positive change and building a strong economic bloc in North Africa “. It is time for the United States Congress “to lay bare the lies and manipulations of the Polisario and its propaganda, in order to make the truth known to the public,” insisted Ms. Porter Cameron.
U.S. Secretary of State reiterated, on Sunday in Rabat, her country’s positing in support of efforts to find a mutually agreeable solution to the Sahara conflict.
“The U.S continues to support efforts to find a peaceful, sustainable and mutually agreed-upon solution to the Sahara conflict,” Clinton said at a joint press conference with Foreign Minister Saad Dine El Otmani.
The U.S. policy for the Sahara “has remained constant,” Clinton noted, reiterating that Morocco’s autonomy plan is “serious, realistic and credible” and will help the Sahara population satisfy their aspirations to run their own affairs.
Edited by Benjamin Villanti and Jaouad Maniani
Photo: DOMINIQUE FAGET/AFP/Getty Images
