Human Rights Watch report on Western Sahara and Tindouf reignites debate
2008-12-22
A new report on human rights in Western Sahara has moved Morocco, Algeria and the Polisario Front to defend their actions and issue new accusations.
By Sarah Touahri and Naoufel Cherkaoui for Magharebia in Rabat – 22/12/08
 [Sarah Touahri] HRW's Sarah Whitson (left) said that while repression has eased in Western Sahara and Tindouf, Moroccan authorities still have a long way to go. |
Representatives of Morocco and the Polisario Front have traded barbs in the wake of the release Friday (December 19th) of a new report on the state of human rights in Western Sahara and refugee camps in neighbouring Algeria. The three-year Human Rights Watch study assessed the situation of residents of both territories and concluded that much work remains to be done.
In the report, which came just days after Morocco and the Polisario accused one another of human rights abuses on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the NGO reasserts the Sahrawi people's right to the freedoms of speech, association and assembly, and to self-determination.
Researchers concluded that Morocco has curbed these rights by introducing laws to punish offences deemed to undermine Morocco's "territorial integrity", with arbitrary arrests, biased legal rulings, restrictions on free association and assembly and police violence and harassment which have gone unpunished.
The Polisario Front supported these claims, stressing after the report's release that it is "important that the international community be made aware of the grave violations of human rights committed by the occupying Moroccan forces".
Morocco dismissed the complaints as "unfounded". According to the interior ministry, the Moroccan government has imposed restrictions only on freedom of speech and activities that represent a threat to public order and security, in accordance with the international pact on civil and political rights.
The authorities also explained that certain extreme measures are necessary to avoid violence. According to the report, protestors have thrown stones and Molotov cocktails during certain pro-independence rallies, causing injury to law enforcement personnel and members of the public and damaging property.
Human Rights Watch did praise the Moroccan state for opening the door to a wider debate on the issue of the Sahara. One example is the legal recognition of a political party which calls itself the "Way of Democracy" (An-Nahj Addimoqrati), whose platform includes the possibility of a referendum for Sahrawi independence.
Over the course of the study, Human Rights Watch investigators also visited the refugee camps across the Algerian border in Tindouf. One observation made during these visits was that the Polisario Front takes great pains to marginalise any voices directly defying its leadership or the general direction of its policies.
Opponents are not imprisoned, and residents are allowed to criticise the day-to-day running of camp business, but fear and social pressure prevent some camp residents from leaving Tindouf to settle in Western Sahara.
The rights of camp residents in Tindouf remain vulnerable, the report claims, due to the camps' isolation and the lack of supervision by host country Algeria to ensure that the Sahrawis living there are afforded their full human rights.
In the recommendations made in the report, Morocco is called upon to respect freedoms and Algeria is encouraged to allow monitoring of human rights on the ground in Tindouf, through a suitable United Nations mechanism like MINURSO. According to Human Rights Watch, a letter has been sent to the Algerian authorities, but so far no response has been forthcoming.
The Polisario expressed its disappointment that the report "ignored and failed to denounce the most fundamental of all violations" by Morocco. In its estimation, the "mother" of all these wrongs is the "denial of the right of the Sahrawi people to exercise its inalienable democratic right to self-determination".
For Khadija Ryadi, chair of the Moroccan Human Rights Association, the report is significant because it covers the human rights situation in Tindouf, where her organisation has never had access.
"We have some representation in Laâyoune, but not in Tindouf," she told Magharebia. "I think the findings are important, as is the recommendation to set up a mechanism for evaluating human rights in the Sahara."
In an official statement, Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East and North Africa Director for Human Rights Watch, said: "Repression has eased somewhat, and today dissidents are testing the red lines. Moroccan authorities – to their credit – ask us to judge them not against their own past record, but against their international human rights engagements."
"By that standard," she added, "they have a long way to go."
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salim k Posted 2008-12-22
Khadija Ryadi, President of the Moroccan Human Rights Organisation... access is denied to her organisation. I find this completely normal for two reasons: first, you are against the self-determination of the Sahrawi people (and I remind you, that, in 1981 in Nairobi, Morocco recognised Western Sahara’s right to self-determination), and, second, you represent the Makhzen.
prince des canuts Posted 2008-12-22
We are all hoping for the Western Sahara’s independence. The problem with the refugees is an international one. We cannot blame Algeria for not doing enough when the Moroccan organisations do not even understand that the Sahrawi refuges do not want to meet with them. They have only to ask their consciences how the torture, oppression, repression, murder, rape and massacres, both past and present, came to pass. This barbaric colonialism is from another age and has lasted too long. I think that the foreign companies have become rich enough to now leave the Sahrawis to live in peace.
Said Posted 2008-12-23
In these types of reports, there is always a certain degree of subjectivity. This report has, all the same, the merit of positioning the conflict between Morocco and the Polisario (in other words, Morocco and Algeria) in the domain of human rights. This is a good thing for the citizens. In my opinion, Morocco is on the right path and the people are already feeling the effects. Even if there is a lot that remains to be done, this country has already accomplished many things in the realm of respect for human dignity and in recognising the mistakes of the past. The government’s attitude shows that it is only at the beginning. Let us hope for the same thing for Algeria and the Algerian people.
Med Posted 2008-12-23
At least, with a report such as this, we are ready for the truth regarding the movement of the Moroccans to the Western Sahara, which those in the Polisario camps have denounced. A large part of the Sahrawis living under Moroccan occupation want independence, but a large part of those living in the Sahrawi refugee camps are in favour of autonomy. What is to be done? On the Moroccan side, the answer is absolutely nothing. They are locked into their position with no escape. They want the Sahrawis to adhere to their option for autonomy under their sovereignty at any cost. And this is even though the international community just confirmed by way of the United Nations General Assembly on 5 December 2008 the right of the Sahrawi people to self-determination with the option of complete independence. It is thus up to the Polisario to take the initiative. It must unite its congress at the next negotiations and propose a new plan of resolving the conflict, with the ends of having a self-determining referendum with the option for independence as prescribed by the UN. However, in order for this proposal to be just, it must make concessions, taking into account Morocco’s claims. It is indeed true that legal lines of allegiance existed between certain tribes living in northern Sakiet El Hamra and the King of Morocco prior to Spanish colonisation. Taking into account the generosity of the Sahrawi people, the congress could consider these ties as “sovereignty” and cede these territories, which, according to the International Court of Justice, are situated in the north-western part of the Western Sahara and have Oued Noun and the Moroccan border as their boundary. This compromise will permit the Moroccans to recover their “Southern Province” and the Sahrawis to finally have an independent state recognised by the UN.
امزيغ1 مغرب Posted 2008-12-23
Salam alikum my dear brothers. Brothers who are in Tindouf have left their country and now they claim their rights. Praise be to God, Morocco is open t all rights. By God, the tar of my country is better than honey of other countries.
acharif moulay abdellah bouskraoui Posted 2008-12-23
The officials at Human Rights Watch should know that we are a state of rights, that we are the ones who give lessons to others and that we do not need advice from others, who ought to go visit Tindouf to see how the Polisario violated human rights and how our brother sequestered in Tindouf are violently attack in contravention of all humanitarian conventions. So, we are a state of rights and I invite the officials at Human Rights Watch to pay a visit to Tindouf in order to truly see who is violating human rights. –Signed, Acharif Moulay Abdellah Bouskraoui
maghrebin Posted 2008-12-23
The Sahara and the Arab Sahrawis are Moroccan and will be forever!
عمر Posted 2008-12-23
Morocco, within the context of preserving its territorial integrity, is fully entitled to establishing security and tranquillity for anyone who thinks of destabilizing our dear country. We won’t spare an effort to protect the sanctities of our country on top of them the territorial integrity of the kingdom in spite of the conspiracies of the plotters.
Naciri Posted 2008-12-24
I do not understand all these people who want to make a banana republic of the Sahara. Let us analyse the facts and figures. You have a territory, the Sahara, which represents half of the territory of Morocco, and you have the Polisario, which represents 200 thousand people. In the best possible scenario, this is less than 1% of the Moroccan population, which is currently at 32 million, who absolutely want to secede. Be logical: 200 thousand people are not even equal to the city of Taza, Morocco. This is as if a small city or a big village in Morocco decided to ask for its independence with a territory 100 times larger than it needs. Faced with neighbours who respectively have 32 and 34 million inhabitants, we can see that this is Algeria’s doing, as a small vassal state is better than a strong Morocco. Everything is clearer now. Che Guevara has long been dead, and he offered this world nothing, except maybe the dictators in Cuba.
boras Posted 2008-12-24
Morocco's proposal for autonomy is the only way forward. The polisario represents no one. They are nothing but an archaic relic of the Cold War era. The sooner they are disbanded the better. It's no wonder the inhabitants of the concentration camp Tindouf are not allowed to go home because the Algerian military junta know they will make a bee line for Morocco. The polisario leaders should all go back to their political masters Algeria/Cuba and leave the Maghreb alone.
BMoh Posted 2008-12-24
Attention: Prince of Canuts (or, rather, Prince of the Cheap, I beg your pardon)! I am very shocked by the content of your comment… Honestly, it was stupid. Surely, your Highness has never attempted to understand reality, that is: the true reality of the Moroccan or “Western” Sahara. It would be better to shut up instead of writing nonsense. At least you could try to first of all understand what this is about and then interest yourself a little bit in the heart of the problem and its source, about which everyone already knows. Afterward, you can ask your conscience in complete objectivity – if that is possible – if this problem even deserves to be around and who is going to benefit the most from cutting apart Morocco, not to mention the Maghreb… the Great Maghreb to which all people of good faith and good conscience aspire to. At a time when all countries are creating unions, this is the very minimum to ensure their rights or, at least, their right to a better life. If not, it will be a short life. P.S. I am sorry, but if you truly need true information to give you a precise idea about the true problem, then I am sure that there are several people from the Maghreb with constructive and positive mindsets at your service.
المحفوظ الولي السبيدي Posted 2008-12-24
It is time for the international community to act and put pressure on Morocco to respect the rights of Sahrawis to self-determination and independence. As long as Morocco continues its illegitimate occupation of the Sahara, human rights violations persist. A protection should be provided for Sahrawis within the occupied territories of Western Sahara. The powers of the United Nations would be extended as it mostly takes the role of viewer. It is a shame and humiliation to welcome 2009 and the Sahrawi issue is pending. It is a pity that the Sahrawi people live divided as a result of the Moroccan guarded and mined wall of Morocco. The continuation of the occupation of Morocco will lead to an explosion of the situation and return of the region to wars and clashes.
mountaser Posted 2008-12-24
The only solution to the problem of the Sahara is referendum and granting the Sahrawi people their right to self-determination.
al Posted 2008-12-24
We demand a referendum for the Western Sahara immediately. The Western Sahara does not belong to Morocco, so the Polisario should not under any circumstance make concessions. The territory is 100% Sahrawi; the Moroccans are intruders!
REZKI Posted 2008-12-25
I think that this NGO is discrediting itself by playing the game of a dictator who killed 200 thousand Algerian in the Sahara affair. We had thought it incorruptible and impartial. What a shame.
0mar belhaj Posted 2008-12-26
There will never ever be an independent western Sahara, algeria should stop giving false hopes to the people in there camps, sahara is part of morocco and we will do everything in our power keep it that way...........peace
لعروسى عبدالله السالك Posted 2008-12-26
In order to present a global image to the Moroccan reader firstly and others about the human rights issue in Western Sahara, it is important to note that the monarchical regime and the Moroccan repressive tool have ignored all world conventions calling for the respect of human rights such as the Universal Declaration of human rights and subsequent conventions. These violations are manifested in the following aspects. Firstly, invading the territory of others and dividing it. Moreover, the bomb against armless citizens Panapalmo whites phosphor and the consequent destructive effects for people and the earth. Secondly, separating the occupied region with a separating wall behind dozens of thousands of families, some of them were dead without having an opportunity to see their children, spouses, brothers, sisters, fathers or mothers. Thirdly, imposing a comprehensive media and military blockage on the region to the point that it is the only region the world banned for the media or foreign organizations at the exception of some mercenaries such as the United Nations. Fourthly, imprisoning thousands of people in secret prisons such as El Bir in Laayoune, Bibier Sidi Missi in Ben Sergao, Agdez and Megouna. Fifthly, imprisonment without trial. If they exist, they do not meet legal conditions and rules. Fifthly, exploiting the land, selling its resources to Europeans and others at low prices so that they will support it in its obsolete approach. Sixthly, driving away the Sahrawi citizen from the occupied territory and drowning the occupied territory with occupiers so that they will affect demographic development in the future. Seven, eight, nine…indefinite violations amid a silent world community led by the innovator of freedoms France. This report of Human Rights Watch reflects just a small part of violations of the repressive machine of the Moroccan government because it has not talked about burying people alive, throwing them from aircrafts, hecatombs, but even if it did or others did, where is the truth, where is the first responsible side? Is it not the king? Where is his trial? Where is…to the day of judgment? My brothers and neighbours in the dear Moroccan kingdom, I am your neighbour, we share Islam and geography. So by God, fear God in yourselves. You should know that when kings enter a village they destroy it, they humiliate its dignified people, this is what they do indeed.
علي سرار Posted 2008-12-26
Since we are the relics of Sykes Picot which divided Arab nations from the East to the West. We live in backwardness and live as a burden to western countries in every detail from the importation of needles to the importation of tanks and planes. Why do our governments not use all their mental powers, go back a little, take us back to the period of liberation before half a century by eliminating borders for a certain period, determined by their governments. They offer the nations the freedom to integrate with each other, making conventions with each other - in the United Nations or Holy Mecca- stipulating that no country shall bear arms against another except for security purposes between citizens such as settling a conflict or dispute between parties. The geographic limits should be determined inside every country and which should not be exceeded by the citizens of the other nation so that the experience succeeds and rulers are tranquil about their own security, and they are right in this.
djaouti mohamed cherif Posted 2008-12-27
In the name of God, a million prayers on the prophets. I would prefer, in this case, to give the example of our brother country Syria’s Golan. Indeed, the Golan is an indisputable part of Syrian territory. Syria scored a major point with the UN by retiring from Lebanon, being more diplomatic. And, it scored another major point by accepting the Iraqi refugees into its territories even though this great country, this great nation has a modest income. Dear Muslims, it is not unusual that Damascus is holding peaceful discussions with Israel. Beware of extremism. I respect these actions in favour of an assured peace and, as I know the Syrians well, I do not think that they are selling nuclear arms. These are very intelligent people. Among many Muslims, I am taken for a Syrian. Therefore, with the blessing of my friend, the respectful Mr Bachar Al Assad, you can think of me as a Syrian. –Signed, The saviour, the saviour, the messiah, the saviour, known as Issa. (To “Makkah”: the intellectuals on the Hadj in 2007, said that that great sign of judgment day happened, except that sun rising in the West. So, help yourselves to fight your jealousy. There are also Israeli Muslims. Do not forget that Islam prohibits the killing of civilians on both sides. Thank you Magharebia for this modest publication.
فاروق Posted 2008-12-27
It is impossible that Moroccans make concessions below autonomy. Those who want independence must bear arms so that we will welcome war against them, we are ready.
Saharaui Posted 2008-12-30
I was born in Western Sahara and right now I am living in the refugee camps. Instead taht my English is poor, I can not let pass the ignorance of some comments that were posted here. Some are telling that can not be an independent Western Sahara and I want do remaindem everyone that Morocco, in 1976 claimed just half our territory and the other half went to Mauritania, so the question is: How dare you to say that now it is all our territory that belongs to you?. In the other hand you did not recognaized us until late 80s after so many years of war, which did make you did it. Fine, we commited the mistake of stping it, but God be my witness, we are as ready as westerday to fight again and if it is my call, we will start tomorrow. Just know that it is our country and despite our cantity and your comparison to a small village of your country, we have defeated you and we will do again. It is our country and we want you out of it.
AWARID Posted 2008-12-31
Morocco and the Moroccans will never abandon the Western Sahara, no matter what happens. Algeria will always be able to do what it wants, but that will not change anything. Morocco is independent and no one will make decisions in its place. At the same time, the most closed and least free of countries is indeed Algeria. Moreover, no one in the world wants to go to Algeria, not even on vacation. So, living there is torture, and not because of the population, but because of the government in power. It is a shame for the Algerian people. Incidentally, is not the new, absolute King of Algeria Bouteflika? He speaks to us of the Sahrawi people and meanwhile, while the Algerians are watching Morocco, he is crowning himself king. Wake up, Algerians: there is no problem between the Algerians and Moroccans!
BENHMIDA Posted 2009-01-01
To Farouk- It seems that the empty vessel makes a lot more noise than the full one. The Sahrawi people are fighting for their independence. Morocco is fighting to resist them in its own expansion. Being driven to do so by the Sahrawi’s determination, Morocco has proposed them Istiqlal Adati!!! This proves they have the bull by the horns! The same thing happened when France proposed the FLN the “Peace of Braves” in 1958. And, as a reminder, it was indeed by arms that the Sahrawis led Morocco to the Houston negotiations. They are Tartarin’s of Tarascon, always ready to make war. Happy new year to our Moroccan brothers. –Signed, An Algerian from Tindouf.
bijouter Posted 2009-01-02
I am sure that you only publish comments that are not hostile to your false cause. The Sahrawis will have their independence, no matter what you do. To your Tartarin of Tarascon, Farouk, I say that it is thanks to their armies that the Sahrawis brought Morocco to its knees in Houston, USA in spite of its insignificant population. Moroccans, do you know that there have been free Sahrawi territories since 1980? Oh, Farouk, go take them back just like you freed Ceuta and Mellila! You were not even able to free the pebble that is Mellila. –Signed, An Algerian from Tindouf. (I would be delighted if my comment would be read by just one miserly Moroccan. Publish it!)
ليلى Posted 2009-01-05
The Sahara is Western and not Moroccan. Yes and a million yes to independence. If there is any violation of human rights, it is in Morocco and not in the Polisario front. Visit Sahrawi cities occupied by Morocco and you will witness violation of human rights, torture and repressions of Sahrawis just because they believe in the right to self-determination and to full independence from Morocco which is invading their territory.
ليلى Posted 2009-01-05
Why haven't you published my comment?
صلاح الدين/الجزائر Posted 2009-01-05
Morocco and Mauritania conquered the Sahara after the struggle of its people against the Spanish coloniser and shared it out as thieves do. Then one thief (Mauritania) ran away because of its weakness and lack of wits. So the big thief took the rest. Here I want to ask, if the Sahara were really Moroccan, why is it divided with another side? Why has Morocco not shot a single bullet to liberate it from the Spanish occupier which left Sahrawis to picaroons to take revenge against them because they resisted it? No matter how long it takes, the Sahara will be liberated.
Acharif Moulay Abdellah BOUSKRAOUI Posted 2009-01-05
May praise be to God alone- The Sahara is Moroccan, the Sahrawis are our sons and brothers and the Algerians are our neighbours. We proposed a plan for autonomy, which would guarantee peace, unity and dignity to all those concerned. This is a promising plan for the entire region and for the United Arab Maghreb. May God help His Majesty, Mohamed VI in making his best effort for the happiness of his Sahrawi people so that they may return to their motherland, Morocco. So, enough playing with words: return to the voice of reason! We have lost enough time in trying to realise a United Arab Maghreb. I am counting on the Algerian intellectuals to support us in this great project for the happiness of all the people of the Maghreb.
boras Posted 2009-01-06
The polisario is a relic of the cold war. Both they and the military junta regime running algeria need to get with the program. History is there for all to see in 1969, Frank E. Trout, a Harvard academic published a book showing in meticulous detail how Morocco's eastern Saharan provinces were systematically annexed by the French when they were creating Algeria from scratch. The Larousse of 1888 defined the size of Morocco as 812,000 square kilometers, but in its 1897 edition, it reduced the size to 800,000 and in 1956 to only 430,810, without giving any idea how Morocco's landmass shrank to its present dimensions. Facts such as these are indisputable which is why polisario is doomed to failure and their idiotic algerian backers will be exposed as frauds.
boras Posted 2009-01-08
Here is an interesting bit of information supporting Morocco's claim for those who still doubt. In 1969, Frank E. Trout, a Harvard academic published a book showing in meticulous detail how Morocco's eastern Saharan provinces were systematically annexed by the French when they were creating Algeria from scratch. The Larousse of 1888 defined the size of Morocco as 812,000 square kilometers, but in its 1897 edition, it reduced the size to 800,000 and in 1956 to only 430,810, without giving any idea how Morocco's landmass shrank to its present dimensions.
نور الدين Posted 2009-01-08
Listen rulers of Algeria and their agents, the Moroccan Sahara is my country, the country of my fathers and forefathers. If anyone of you dare enter it, I will smash the brain of his mother. The Sahara is Amazigh and Moroccan for four thousand years. Don’t give me illusions me about your human rights.
tahar k Posted 2009-01-09
In 1981, Morocco recognized Nairobi’s right to self-determination, only to reject the same in the Western Sahara later. If the Western Sahara is Moroccan, then why did Morocco accept splitting the territory with Mauritania? As for our Algeria, there were 1.5 million martyrs. The day that the Moroccans start behaving like men like the Algerians do and liberate their lands from their Spanish colonizers, is the day that we will talk. There you have it, Boras: historic fact.
bakita Posted 2009-01-09
No to autonomy. The independence of the Sahara is certainly coming, coming, coming, coming.
الحسين Posted 2009-01-09
Oh cowards and agents of the Algerian rulers, you should know that the Sahara is a Moroccan land from our grandfathers to this day. Do you want to take it as a gift from the Moroccan people? The Moroccan people are on their land. It will die, live, be poor and prosperous rather than relinquish its right in favour of ragamuffins. By God, it hasn’t and won’t. Let the Moroccan people to their own business.
Maghrebin Posted 2009-01-10
Boras- Copying and pasting does not cut it anymore. And, what if we dream about the Roman or even the Byzantine or Phoenician periods? Thousands of years ago, in the time of Pharaohs, the entirety of North Africa all the way to the Sudan was Egyptian or, rather, all of Egypt was Sudanese. Did you know that the Canary Islands are Berber?
بونعناع Posted 2009-01-13
History is merciless. There are native tribes and peoples. On the other hand there are alien foreign people and tribes. You must understand Tamzgha (land of Amazigh) is for Amazigh people. Neither Rome or anything else. The Sahara is the motherland of Amazigh people whether you like it or not. Right will triumph.
Issam Posted 2009-01-13
To all, If somethign crosses the broders of the moroccan southern territories of the sahara, all hell will break loose, we will erradicate the separatists and their military supporters, there is no such thing as a ligitimate western sahrawi, there is the pseudo-entity named POLISARIO that most of them are from today's algerian southern provinces. Most moroccan saharawi living in the moroccan sahara are proud moroccans they do not move eastwards. I must remind that, morocco never really fought, because the battles were gerrilas style, the polisario militants would throw sudden attacks and disappear into the other side borders with algeria, leaving moroccan fighters without retaliation because of respecting our algerian brothers. but this time there will not be a damn respect u hit we will follow the intruder. there is no western sahara, or middle sahara, there is MOROCCAN SAHARA.
Youssef Posted 2009-01-13
To Bakita, Oh no, MOROCCO WILL OFFICALLY by the UN have his territories on paper. MOROCCO will not draw off a sand line out of its territory, or be ready to be one with sand grains. and We WILL get ceuta and mellilia, after UN resolution on the moroccan sahara question.
يونغ بيونغ Posted 2009-02-01
There is no Moroccan Sahara but a Western Sahara. The United Nations say that Sahrawi people are entitled to exercise self-determination. They will determine their fate and God willing independence from Morocco. Independence is coming, coming, undoubtedly, there is no other solution but independence. It is coming, independence of Western Sahara is coming, it is coming, God willing, God willing.
kada Posted 2009-02-02
They have been on the verge of this for a long time. I know the Moroccans quite well. If you visit Morocco, you will find very beautiful buildings with beautiful windows, but behind them, there is nothing but misery. Our brothers know quite well how to disguise the truth and show only something different. There is but one truth: Morocco is a colonial state. Why don’t they make a big uproar about Ceuta and Mellila? (Is the Spanish club too heavy?) But, it does puff up its chest towards the weak Sahrawis. Cowards!!! Moreover, how is it that it ceded a small part of the Sahara to Mauritania, which it did only claim not so long ago? It was so jealous of “its” southern regions. So, enough hot air! He is really pushing it.
boras Posted 2009-02-04
The Morocan Sahara will be Moroccan as it has done throughout 12 centuries of Morocco's long and illustrious history. Some people are truly deluded if they think we will carve up Morocco and give away land to a terrorist group called the Polisario who brain wash kids in Communism theology. And they talk about maintaining saharaoui culure!? They are nothing but a relic of the Cold War. I suggest they all get with the program and make a bee line to Morocco's welcoming arms; that's if the Algerian military junta and polisario bandits will let them leave the concentration camps in Tindouf.
alex Posted 2009-02-17
I thank all of you for your program.
يونغ يانع Posted 2009-02-21
Independence, independence, independence is coming. If Western Sahara were Moroccan, why split it with Mauritania? As the province of Kosovo became independent from Serbia, Western Sahara will be independent God willing from Morocco. Algeria is the only Arab country which supports us. God willing, independence is coming. You will see Moroccans. Take care of buying your cannabis and stay away from Algeria.
طنجة Posted 2009-03-14
My brother readers. Morocco has a serious problems in terms of colonization of Ceuta, Mellila, the Canary Islands, Perejil Island and the Sahara. But Morocco is in good terms with Spain in spite of all this. The problem is the Sahara and those who want to seize our lands from our hands. This is not logical. Good action is rewarded by action not evil. Hassan II, may God rest his soul, is a righteous and lawful man. He swore for the Sahara. So you, me and the Moroccan people cannot deride the swear of Hassan II, may God rest his soul.
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