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Posts Tagged ‘Sahrawi’

Agony in Western Sahara

By Guest Post • Oct 28th, 2009 • Category: Features, Mary's Choice, Newswire, Resistance, War

Africa’s Last Colony: Spain’s Error, Morocco’s Sin aptly describes the situation and dire circumstances under which the Saharawi live. Water poisoning, torture, forced disappearances and other inhumane situations are some of the conditions under which the Saharawi live.
Over 150,000 Saharawi are internally displaced refugees living on a daily ration provided by the United Nations Food Programme while many are hounded into detention without trials or forced into exile.

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 [...]

Falastin quote

By Mary Rizzo • Jul 28th, 2008 • Category: Falastin, Quotes

One issue that stands out here is the importance of collective mobilization around a strategic vision, and the conditions that promote or challenge popular consent. For both peoples, the hope of return has not vanished despite decades of displacement and it is clear that such a return is imagined as a collective one based on [...]

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 [...]