Research on universal justice are ongoing while the courts handled Law proposing to curtail the jurisdiction of the Spanish international judges. On Wednesday, the judge of the Audiencia Nacional Pablo Ruz has taken statements from two forensic experts who in June 2013 took part in the exhumation of a mass grave where they were buried eight Bedouin Sahrawi allegedly executed without trial by Moroccan military forces in February 1976. Francisco Etxeberria, Professor of Forensic Medicine, University of the Basque Country, and Carlos Beristain, physician and psychologist, confirmed that the burial had at least three Spanish nationals. Alongside their bodies were found two ID and a ration of sugar.
The investigation of the mass grave joined the lawsuit filed in 2006 on crimes against humanity in Western Sahara after Spain abandoned its former colony in late 1975. According to research by Etxeberria and Beristain, including the exhumation and identification tests and the assessment of the testimonies of 15 people in the pit, located in the Fadret Leguiaa in Smara region, 400 kilometers from the camps Tindouf, lie the bodies of eight Bedouin were engaged in grazing goats and camels and were executed shot. Two of the dead were children, according to forensic evidence.
According Etxeberria has detailed these eight people were buried in " any way under the sand and ammunition with which the shooting took place around." The burial was also conducted " without regard customs and traditions of the Saharawi people."
In addition to the two experts, has also appeared before Ruz, Selma Mahmud, son of one of the victims, who described how his cousin Ali Said Abba- Daf with only 14 years witnessed executions, and heard the names of two people whose identity have appeared in the wreckage, which reinforces the findings of the report. Abba- Ali Said and Kabula Selma Daf Daf, living in Algeria, were cited by the judge today, but the consular authorities of Algiers not processed his visa and could not fly to Madrid. The plaintiffs, led by lawyer Manuel Ollé, will file a complaint for these acts attributed to " an application in advance of the reform to end universal justice."
Ollé fears that the cause of the genocide - there are more than 400 victims of enforced disappearance Sahrawi, mostly between 1975 and 1977 - as being filed end into force reform to end universal justice. Counsel has expressed his hope that today the PP representatives and senators may have been present in the statements " were annihilated listening to the Saharawi people, how to Spaniards annihilated victims of genocide and today are absolutely without any protection ".
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