Westerners: DON'T GO TO MOROCCO !!!

Eoa wrote:
That s rubish, I was in Moroco few weeks ago. People are nice and
friendly,
.. You just have to respect local customs (don t by drugs, don t by
alcohol,
don t tell that you buy what You don t whant to buy, don t show off)
..=2E.like
You expect for foreigners in Your "nice western country "to respect
Yours.
Pls next time stay at home. eat hamburger and be safe
E. - homo sapiens with lack of melanin in top layer of his skin


Don't mention Western Sahara:

Moroccan campaign against Sahrawi human rights defenders and mine
victims

By: Martin Wikstr=F6m, www.vastsahara.org

The Moroccan newspaper Aujourd'hui and the Association of the Moroccan
Sahara (ASM) have recently risen a new campaign against Sahrawi human
rights
defenders and victims of mines in the Western Sahara and in the south
of
Morocco.

The campaign is an answer to a Polisario campaign made to help a victim
of
mine, 10 year old young girl Hjiba Aouimir who lives near Assa, south
of
Morocco. She was a victim of an anti-personnel mine on March 04th 2004,
when
she was following her family's small cattle of goats in the desert. She
has
had two unsuccessful operations in Agadir which have cost a lot of
money.

The Aujourd'hui and the ASM claim that Polisario is using the girl as a

martyr. Abdelmohsin EL HASSOUNI writes in Aujourd'hui that "The
separatists
of the polisario, represented in Morocco by "Tamek and company" wanted
to
exploit the annoying accident of a 10 year old young girl in their
Moroccan
anti propaganda." "This poor girl would thus be used by the polisario
within
the framework of a campaign which it has just launched last week under
the
denomination "countryside international against the anti-personnel
mines and
the Moroccan wall of shame to the Sahara". (article on
http://www.aujourdhui.ma/couverture-details33041.html")

The Swiss Foundation for Landmine Victims-Aid has taken charge
of the curing of Hjiba. The ASM, which is of course Makhzen-made,
pretended
that it will take charge of the girl and cure her in Agadir to prevent
the
Swiss association from doing so. In other words the Moroccan
authorities try
to force the family of the girl to accept the curing in Morocco by the
Moroccan authorities.

The family of Hjiba said that the girl should go to Rabat or abroad as
the
two previous operations in Agadir were unsuccessful. Hence, some
militants
and relatives of the family travelled to Rabat and put the girl in
Agdal
clinic. There were a lot of conflicts with the Moroccan authorities
trying
to force the family to accept the Moroccan offer for curing in a
military
hospital. The father refused and released a press release thanking the
Swiss
association.

The surprise was that the Moroccan king sent his orders that the girl
should
be cured on his expenses. The doctors said the girl's foot should be
cut
off. The family refuses, but a lot of pressure and threatening on them
until
now by the Wali of Rabat, the pasha (very famous for his repressive
actions)
and the Qaid.

Sahrawi Activists Opposing Landmines in Western Sahara appeals: "We
would
like the Swiss association and all the other organisations and human
rights
defenders to interfere so that the family could cure the girl and not
cut
her leg. We no longer trust them because her two previous doctors
Dr.Azzaz
in Assa hospital and Dr.M'hamed Chlyah in a private polyclinic in
Agadir
said to a Moroccan newspaper three days ago that the state of the girl
is
stable and not serious.Now the head doctor of Agdal clinic says that
the
girl's foot has to be cut. What a controversy!"


Bring pressure on Moroccan authorities to let the girl have the
operations
she needs! Send your appeals to:

Ministry of the Interior
Ahmed Midaqui
Quartier Administratif
Rabat
Tel: (037) 761-861
Fax: (037) 762-056

Ministry of Justice
Omar Azziman
Place Mamounia
Rabat
Tel: (037) 732-941
Fax: (037) 730-772
_______________________________________________

Forwarded by:
_______________________________________________
Norwegian Support Committee for Western Sahara


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oups.com...
" Attention: WESTERNERS (white people).. DON'T GO TO MOROCCO !!!
It's dirty, sleazy and DANGEROUS !!! DO GO !! (trust me ) Filthy
Moroccan Men wait outside ALL the nicer hotels to rip-off and rob
Westerners !! VERY DANGEROUS"

The rest of it is a lot nicer than Tangier. I promise.


Well, it can't be worse than Tangier. I'll go back again, but, definitely
won't go via Tanga or if I do it will be to get a train out the next day.
Tanga has gone way down hill since the old days, it attempts to live on past
reputation, but, has forgotten how it got its past reputation.

Rob