Page 55 hundreds of youths to board death canoes, fleeing from political oppression, to the neighbouring Canary Islands;  Arrest of 7 Sahrawi Human Rights Advocates on 8 October 2009 and taking them to Rabat to face court martial following their visit to the Refugee Camps (see Annex 1);  Deportation of Aminatu Haidar, a human rights advocate on 14 November 2009 to the Lanzarote Island in Spain (see Annex 2);  Military attack on Gdeim Izik Camp accommodating over 20,000 Sahrawi civilian displaced persons on 8 November 2010. This attack resulted in death, injury, burning, destruction and plunder of Sahrawi properties. ElAaiun also witnessed a wide campaign of abduction of tens of civilians who were subjected to all manner of torture before being arraigned before civilian and military courts (see Annex 3). 172. It is worth noting that a number of international human rights organizations, including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have issued reports and statements and made visits in this regard to the occupied Western Sahara after facing difficulties and obstacles in doing so. They met with human rights activists, victims and families of abductees and those whose whereabouts are not known as well as political prisoners . They have released detailed reports and recommendations on the status of human rights in Western Sahara. The UNHCR has also visited the area in 2006 and a European Parliament delegation in 2009. They both recorded the persistent gross human rights violations against the Sahrawi civilians by Morocco, preventing them from exercising their right to self-determination. 173. During the past few years, we recorded the following violations: