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Posts Tagged ‘Western Sahara’

Aminetu Haidar: In Spite of Everything. Saharawi on Hunger Strike

By Guest Post • Dec 5th, 2009 • Category: Arabian Coffee House, Biography, Newswire, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance

WRITTEN BY ATENEA AVECEDO
Aminetu Haidar was arrested at the El Aaiun Airport (former capital of Western Sahara, a country under Moroccan military occupation since 1975) because in filling out the corresponding entry form she wrote "Western Sahara" as her country of origin instead of "Morocco". The Moroccan authorities confiscated her passport and forced her aboard another aircraft [...]

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 [...]