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The Moroccan authorities also prevented families of those arrested, victims who
were fired at on 24 October 2010 and those admitted at the military hospital of El-Aaiun,
from visiting them since 8 November 2010 according to reports received from those
families.
The story of the Gdein Izik Camp and the resultant blatant violation of their
human and peoples rights, have led to:
Convening of the UN Security Council twice in a week to discuss the matter;
The storming of the Camp featured prominently and in an unprecedented
manner, in the international and Spanish media;
A political debate took place in the Spanish Parliament and the intervention
by the Moroccan forces was concluded whilst demand was made for
accountability by the Spanish Prime Minister Rodrico Isapitero about the
Spanish Government’s role in the raid;
The European Parliament met and decided to send a fact finding mission to
the region;
Both Morocco and the Polisario were invited for their views to be heard by
the European Parliament on what transpired at the Camp and the El-Aaiun
events as well as the resultant violations;
There was condemnation by several International Organizations, political
parties, trade unions, etc.
All that was accompanied by a wave of outrage which pushed the majority of
Moroccan officials into settling narrow chauvinist racist scores. A lot of arrests were
made Sahrawis were kept for many years in the local prison of La Careel Negra, ElAaiun, Western Sahara, in addition to about 160 including the aged, and women whose
families were left behind and children and pregnant women as well as 20 prisoners in
Salé prison in Morocco.