L\u2019\u00e9ch\u00e9ance d\u2019avril est un cauchemar pour le Makhzen. Lorsque cette date approche, les soldats de Mohammed VI d\u00e9clarent alerte rouge en vue d\u2019amortire les effets de la prochaine r\u00e9solution du Conseil de S\u00e9curit\u00e9 des Nations Unies sur le Sahara Occidental.<\/p>\n
Ici, le ministre des affaires \u00e9trang\u00e8res a demand\u00e9 l\u2019aide d\u2019un certain Hassan Abassi. Dans un mail, ce dernier propose un plan de travail. Voici son texte int\u00e9gral :<\/p>\n
Salam si Saad,<\/p>\n
Veuillez trouver ci joint le document (en Anglais) qui contient 1) les arguments qui peuvent \u00eatre utiles pour d\u00e9fendre la position Marocaine, et un plan d\u2019actions que j\u2019ai pr\u00e9par\u00e9 avec une coll\u00e8gue (active dans le monde de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 civile) pour mener une campagne de relation publique de la jusqu\u2019au jour du vote de la r\u00e9solution- 30 Avril 2013.<\/p>\n
Je suis disponible \u00e0 travailler autant d\u2019heures qu\u2019il faut pour r\u00e9ussir cette campagne de relation publique et je suis confiant de pouvoir y arriver si je re\u00e7ois le soutien moral et mat\u00e9riel dont j\u2019ai besoin \u2013 vous m\u2019avez d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu en action pendant votre derni\u00e8re campagne \u00e9lectorale et je suis disponible \u00e0 montrer le m\u00eame engagement et la m\u00eame d\u00e9termination que la derni\u00e8re fois.<\/p>\n
La d\u00e9cision cependant doit \u00eatre prise rapidement afin que je puisse mettre en place tous les outils et la structure n\u00e9cessaire pour une telle op\u00e9ration \u2013 l\u2019id\u00e9al serait d\u2019\u00eatre op\u00e9rationnel avant le 22 Avril, date de l\u2019\u00e9mission du rapport de l\u2019envoy\u00e9 sp\u00e9ciale sur le Sahara.<\/p>\n
Aussi, je pense qu\u2019il est n\u00e9cessaire de \u00ab passer une fuite d\u2019info \u00bb concernant le sujet de Kerry, comme suivi:<\/p>\n
\u00ab D\u2019apr\u00e8s une source bien inform\u00e9e au sein du MAEC, la proposition de Mr Kerry n\u2019est pas une position formelle des \u00e9tats unies. Il s\u2019agit tout juste d\u2019une proposition que Mr Kerry a avanc\u00e9 dans une r\u00e9union des amis du peuple Sahrawi faite de P3 (US, France, Royaume Uni) et l\u2019Espagne et la Russie qui pr\u00e9pare la r\u00e9daction de la r\u00e9solution prononc\u00e9e par le Secr\u00e9taire G\u00e9n\u00e9rale. Kerry Kennedy a pris cette information et l\u2019a formul\u00e9 dans un article et l\u2019a publi\u00e9 dans son compte twitter, no m\u00e9dias ont repris ses propos comme si c\u2019\u00e9tait une suggestion officielle, d\u2019ou la r\u00e9action que nous voyons \u00e0 pr\u00e9sent. Il ne faut surtout pas prendre une telle proposition comme une position officielle des \u00e9tats unies. \u00bb<\/p>\n
Il reste de mon avis qu\u2019une telle info reste n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 diffuser afin de diminuer l\u2019exc\u00e8s de zel de quelques m\u00e9dias qui commencent \u00e0 diaboliser les etats unies; et quelques leaders politiques (Chabat est parti encore une fois \u00e0 parler de Tindouf et Bechar comme entit\u00e9s marocaines), surtout si nous gardons en t\u00eate que tout cela sera lu et envoy\u00e9 par l\u2019ambassade am\u00e9ricain ici a rabat au State Departement des Etats unies.<\/p>\n
J\u2019attends votre r\u00e9ponse a ces deux suggestions si Saad. Bon courage et Allah ynassrak a sidi.<\/p>\n
Cordialement,<\/p>\n
Hassan.<\/p>\n
Texte en anglais propos\u00e9 par Hassan Abassi<\/p>\n
THE MAIN ARGUMENTS AGAINST KERRY\u2019 S SUGGESTIONS:<\/p>\n
Mr. Kerry\u2019s suggestion to expand the role of the MINURSO to include human rights monitoring in the Moroccan southern provinces and the Algerian controlled Sahrawi camps should be perceived as a hasty decision and a clear infringement of Moroccan sovereignty over its territories. This suggestion is, in diplomatic terms, \u201chasty and ill informed\u201d.<\/p>\n
This move was strongly criticized across the Moroccan political spectrum, not least because Morocco has shown a genuine and serious commitment in dealing with this issue, over ALL the parts of its territory, by establishing a solid human rights body (CNDH) that works in closer consultation with several international human rights bodies, such as the Human Rights Council and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human rights, in order to improve its human rights records.<\/p>\n
Morocco\u2019s claim is further legitimized because of the lack of impartiality in this matter, since The MINURSO has been reporting on the human rights situation on the Moroccan southern provinces without assessing properly the lack of freedom of movement in those camps, where creation of associations is forbidden (written in the constitution of the pseudo RASD) and where oppression of all kinds of dissidence is flagrant \u2013 Abdelaziz is probably the last person to get elected four times with a last election result win of 96% of the votes.<\/p>\n
The main flaw however in Mr Kerry\u2019s suggestion remains in trying to request it to be done for both sides, as if both are equal in terms of state structure and state recognition. It should be clearly spelled out that Morocco is a sovereign state, and has signed to all Human Rights conventions and adheres fully to the UN human rights charter, contrary to that pseudo state that has no legitimate existence. Furthermore, Morocco has regained that territory peacefully and in the last 37 years no armed rebellion took place in that area, the reason being is that 1) citizens of those provinces acknowledge Morocco\u2019s right to that territory, and 2) (undoubtedly) the absence of systematic oppressive means of ruling in those regions didn\u2019t urge the Sahrawi people to resort to violence.<\/p>\n
The Moroccan government reiterates at every possible occasion its commitment to reach a mutually agreed and a just solution for this conflict, but it will spare no efforts in defending its sovereignty, national unity and territorial integration.<\/p>\n
The US should be better informed about human rights abuses in Tindouf. The United Nations envoy to the Western Sahara should have an equal courage to expose to the international community the harsh economic conditions and the imposed civil liberties restrictions faced while living in those camps.<\/p>\n
The UN under its High Commission for Refugees (HCR) ought to dispatch an independent party, for a census and identification process (The only \u201crefugee\u201d camp in the world not to have gone through this process) and to collect, investigate and report on instances of human rights abuses in the refugee Camps.<\/p>\n
Steps and actions to be taken by the Moroccan diplomacy, civil society and political parties<\/p>\n
The Moroccan public opinion needs to be sensitized about the this issue and the Moroccan diplomacy should make the international community aware that the proposition of expanding the MINURSO monitoring on human rights in the Moroccan southern provinces is futile and unnecessary.<\/p>\n
Civil society and the political parties have to raise a ONE million petition letter to the UN secretary General and lead a large media and social media campaign to denounce the hasty US proposition to expand the role of the MINURSO to include human rights monitoring in the Moroccan Southern provinces<\/p>\n
Civil society and political parties have to raise a ONE million petition letter to the UN secretary General and lead a large media and social media campaign to denounce the state and request the freedom of our Moroccan sequestered brothers and sisters in the camps of Tindouf \u2013 The camps of shame.<\/p>\n
A ONE million March needs to be organized in Rabat, and around the UN Headquarters in New York on the day and the hours the resolution is being discussed to give momentum to our Moroccan delegation at the UN.<\/p>\n
Opening of channels of communication with International media outlets between the period of the submission of the UN envoy on the 22nd of April until the passing of the resolution. A common and well prepared documentation of arguments need to be provided in the English, French, Spanish and Arabic languages to controlled speakers who will be allowed to appear on those programs.<\/p>\n
Request the Moroccan Diaspora to lobby and demonstrate in a peaceful manner (Americans are indeed our allies) its discontent with the American hasty decision and raise awareness on the fair and just claim of Morocco\u2019s right to defend the total integrity of its territories, and the disastrous situation endured by the people living in those camps. The tempo should be intensified from the period of the release of the UN envoy report till the passing of the resolution.<\/p>\n