Students in Cady Ayyad University in Marrakech staged a march on May the 14th,
calling for their rights.
Students Moroccans of the Nahj Democratic and Saharawis were demanding their rights such as :
- Freedom of speech, because many students have been expelled from the University, arrested and disappeared because of their political opinions.
-The right of education, most students are not allowed to study master studies.
Students are not allowed to study in some domains like medicine and politics.
-The right of a scholarship, some students especially those from very poor and far cities like Zagoura have to pay for their transport.
-The right to Self-determination for Saharawi people.
It has been 20 days that the students are boycotting the lessons and exams as a protest till their rights are respected.
In April this year 19 students were poisoned at the cafeteria of the campus, in consequence the students Moroccans the Nahj Democratic and Saharawis had a march in the public street , on the 17th at night protesting against this event.
The police stopped the march in a brutal way and arrested 40 students.
Moroccans the Nahj Democratic and Saharawi students were gathering in the campus on Wednesday at 03:30 to go on a march to the head administration of the University, few km from the University.
The peaceful march was stopped by a huge troops of the Moroccan army.
Students had no choice but to escape to the campus. They had a manifestation inside it.
The Moroccan oppressive forces were surrounding the campus, the University and all the roads leading to the University.
The students had slogans such as :
-People.. Revolute against the dictator regime.
-Arrests .. Torture .. False trials is the attitude of occupation .
-We determined to be free .. No alternative but Victory .. Saharawi people go on till Independence.. Moroccan people go on till Freedom and Victory.
-We are still on the path of the continues struggle .. Be confident our martyr ..We are the future revolution .. All the betrayer hearts one day will defeat .. All the cruel handcuffs will be broken one day..
It will be broken and we built castles of Freedom ..
It will be broken and we damage the cuffs of Occupation..
…..
As a respond, Moroccan oppressive forces used guns to threaten the students, they shoot bullets in the air to stop those slogans.
They also threw a lot of teargas bombs , that caused several victims of students.
The oppressive forces broke into the campus at the evening, causing huge damage in the campus , the rooms of students were stormed, their things were completely destroyed.
According to Moroccan news papers 300 students were detained and two students were thrown from the 4th floor of the building , they were in a very sensitive situation at
the hospital of “Ibn Tofil”, one is a Saharawi from Assa city, his neck , back and feet were broken and the Moroccan other one was killed .
In reality, it was more than 300 students were detained and tortured at “Jamaa Lefna” police station.
Three students were beaten up by the police and thrown from the fourth flour .
Two Saharawis : Elwali Kadimi from Assa, he had an urgent operation on his neck on Saturday.
Hassan Fateh : broken in several parts of his body.
The third one is a Moroccan student from Demnat is a small village near Marrakech he died after he was thrown from the 4th flour.
All the students at the campus were harshly beaten up, especially Saharawi and the Nahj Democratic students.
Around 15 students from the Nahj Democratic one of them is a girl are still detained , three of them were sent to the prison of “Bu Lenharez” in Marrakech last Monday.
Some saharawi students testimony that while they were at the session of the torture they saw one of the Nahj Democratic students his name is “Younes” , they couldn’t recognize him in the beginning, his face was swollen and full of blood , he was taken 6 times to the electric shock area.
Other Saharawi students live in “Elwahda 4” area testimony that the police stormed the apartment where they live, they were pulling their neighbor he is one of the Nahj Democratic students , he couldn’t walk on his feet, his face was swollen and he looked very sick.
The police stormed his room, damaged his furniture and confiscated his files and computer.
The campus now is a military barracks, students were forced to leave it. The army is there instead so as to control the students in the University.
The students now are dispersed, some couldn’t find a place to settle and no money to come back to their cities so they are sleeping in the streets near the shops or at Internet cafes .
The final examination are starting this weak but, most students returned to their cities with their injuries..
This is not the first time that students in Morocco Saharawis or the Nahj Democratic suffer this brutality , it is a systematic attacks that is occurring especially at the time of examination.
Students are peacefully demonstrating to get their rights,
Saharawis demanding their legitimate right to Self-Determination
And the Nahj Democratic students demanding their rights to a free Morocco, no monarchy , no exploitation of people and natural resources, no poverty, no illiteracy….
Students can not support receiving brutal attacks each year, just because they are saying No to the Moroccan cruel regime.
This situation must be changed. Or in the near future will not find any student in the Universities.
As students Saharawis and Moroccans “Nahj Democratic”
in Marrakech, we demand
The release of all students the prisoners of conscience .
Our rights must be respected .
Our demands we gave to the administration of the University must be implemented.
The military must leave the campus and students must return.
Students need an International Protection.
Moroccan regime must sign a treaty that these brutal attacks will not happen again, and that the dialogue is better can lead to solutions better than the teargas bombs and torture.
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