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Statement of the Frente Polisario before the UN Special Committee on Colonialism

By Guest Post • Jul 2nd, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Culture and Heritage, Features, Mary's Choice, Newswire, Resistance

STATEMENT OF THE FRENTE POLISARIO
BEFORE THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE OF THE 24
New York, 16 June 2009

Mr Chairman,
Western Sahara remains under the illegal occupation of Morocco. The efforts employed so far by the United Nations with a view to finalising the decolonisation of the Territory have not been successful due to Morocco’s current rejection of the right [...]

HYPOCRITES! In defense of the Sahrawi people

By Guest Post • Jul 16th, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Middle East Issues, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Resistance

WRITTEN BY LUIS PORTILLO
To those who, for so long, have silenced the legitimate claims of the Sahrawi people and their deep cries of anguish and pain.

To those who have systematically kept silent about the atrocities committed by the Moroccan Makhzen civil, military and religious hierarchy against the Sahrawi people.

To those who looked away or silenced [...]