Western Sahara independence activist Aminatou Haidar has called on the international community to make efforts to bring a halt to Moroccan human rights abuses.
The 43-year-old went on a hunger strike last month in order to draw the world's attention Western Sahara's quest for independence from Morocco.
The head of the Polisario Front, the Western Sahara's movement for independence, Mohammed Abdelaziz, says that Haidar's hunger strike in a Spanish airport was meant to stop the Moroccan government from 'capturing Polisario campaigners over treason and espionage.'
"Her... hunger strike has shed light on our struggle and has put the Western Sahara issue back at the top of the international agenda," Reuters quoted him as saying on Monday.
"Morocco should... stop its campaign against our people inside the occupied territories," Abdelaziz said.
"We urge the United Nations to set up a mechanism to protect our people's human rights... and to report on it as long as the conflict is unresolved," he added.
Western Sahara, a strip of land with large mineral reserves, has witnessed Africa's longest-running conflict over autonomy, after Morocco took possession of the former Spanish colony in 1976.
The 43-year-old went on a hunger strike last month in order to draw the world's attention Western Sahara's quest for independence from Morocco.
The head of the Polisario Front, the Western Sahara's movement for independence, Mohammed Abdelaziz, says that Haidar's hunger strike in a Spanish airport was meant to stop the Moroccan government from 'capturing Polisario campaigners over treason and espionage.'
"Her... hunger strike has shed light on our struggle and has put the Western Sahara issue back at the top of the international agenda," Reuters quoted him as saying on Monday.
"Morocco should... stop its campaign against our people inside the occupied territories," Abdelaziz said.
"We urge the United Nations to set up a mechanism to protect our people's human rights... and to report on it as long as the conflict is unresolved," he added.
Western Sahara, a strip of land with large mineral reserves, has witnessed Africa's longest-running conflict over autonomy, after Morocco took possession of the former Spanish colony in 1976.
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