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WFDY denounces assassination of young Mohamed Salem Fahim and calls for decolonization of Western Sahara (text)

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Budapest (Hungary) 08 February 2021 (SPS)- World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY) denounced in a press release, issued Monday, the dubious death of young Saharawi, Mohamed Salem Fahim, whose dead body was found by family hidden for more than 2 weeks in Moroccan morgue in occupied El Aaiun.
WFDY “shows its solidarity with the family and friends of the late Mohamed Salem Fahim, as well as with all the victims of the Moroccan occupation,” the press release emphasised.
Following is the full text of the Press Release:
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“The young Saharawi Mohamed Salem Fahim had been missing for more than 20 days under mysterious circumstances. The 5th of February his family found his body in the morgue of El-Aaiun Hospital. The fact that the Moroccan authorities hid the body for so many days and have not given any explanation for his death suggests the worst, that is, that we are facing a new political assassination by the Moroccan occupation.
The brutality suffered by the Sahrawi youth and people has been aggravated since that fateful morning of 13 November of 2020, when the Moroccan occupation forces opened three breaches east of the wall of shame in clear violation of the ceasefire agreement to attack a group of peaceful Saharawi civilians who were peacefully protesting in front of the illegal Guerguerat breach.
In this situation, it is worth denouncing the complicity that several countries in the world, political leaders and representatives, etc. have shown towards the occupation of Western Sahara. From the then President of the United States, Donald Trump, validating the Moroccan occupation by recognising Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara; to the latest delirious case of the self-proclaimed president of Venezuela, Juan Guaidó, in which this representative of the pro-imperialist coup-plotters in Venezuela supported the Moroccan occupation of Western Sahara.
The World Federation of Democratic Youth shows its solidarity with the family and friends of the late Mohamed Salem Fahim, as well as with all the victims of the Moroccan occupation.
The World Federation of Democratic Youth reaffirms its steadfast position on the side of the Saharawi youth and their right to a free sovereign state. The only solution to the situation of the Saharawi youth and people is exercising the right of self-determination.
The World Federation of Democratic Youth condemns the complicity and negligence of all those who are contributing to the normalisation of the occupation; who are whitewashing the crimes of the Moroccan occupation; and who are denying or obstructing the exercise of the right to self-determination of the Saharawi people in total violation of all relevant UN and AU resolutions and against the basic principles of international law.” (SPS)
 
090/500/60 (SPS)