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The Occupation We Choose to Ignore’

Do you know who I am? I am a Sahrawi. The land to which I refer is what is known today as the non-self-governing territory ofWestern Sahara. My country was colonized by the Spanish and the French between 1884 and 1975, divided in two and occupied by Moroccan and Mauritanian forces thereafter, and has been ruled exclusively by the Kingdom of Morocco from 1979 until the present.

The Western Sahara: forgotten first source of the Arab Spring

this is one part of the Arab Spring that western governments don't want to talk about. And their silence, and the UN's complicity in it, is why that repression continues, and a terrible injustice is perpetuated.

ISS - News - The Western Sahara and North African People’s Power

Respect the right of individuals to peacefully express their opinions regarding the status and future of the Western Sahara and to document violations of human rights

King of Morocco to be biggest benefactor of EU trade agreement - Telegraph

it has emerged that the single biggest beneficiary of the deal will be the King of Morocco, who is head of one of the three largest agricultural producers in the north African country and lays claim to 12,000 hectares of the nation's most fertile farmland.

North African Dispatches Africa’s Forgotten Colony

Oblivion it seems is the current reality for the arid North African territory of Western Sahara; often referred to as Africa’s ‘Last Colony’. In my opinion, it would be more accurate to describe it as ‘Africa’s Forgotten Colony’.

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Afrah Nasser: Arab Spring started from Western Sahara

WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 2011

Arab Spring started from Western Sahara

Being an activist means shedding lights on key global issues; in the hope to bring change for a better tomorrow for coming generations. In the midst of the Arab Spring; there is little attention paid to a revolution against a colony that has been happening for couple years and no one seems to care enough about that. As an activist; I couldn't help it but blog about this now.

Western Sahara cause, the forgotten conflict has been struggling for many decades for its independence. Western Sahara is a nation with undoubted claims to independence, yet still exists under the yoke of neighboring nations. Western Sahara is a territory of North Africa, bordered by Morocco to the north, Algeria in the northeast, Mauritania to the east and south, and has been on the UN List of Non-Self-Governing-Territories since the 1960s when it was a Spanish colony.

I was blessed to meet up in Stockholm with Senia Bachir Abderahman, 21 years old, from Western Sahara and BA holder in Biology Study. With her passionate voice, I saw how she was a great advocate on her nation’s struggle. We meet for couple hours and talked about Western Sahara (the interview is on audio below and my apologies for the law quality of the sound). I was saddened by the little media coverage given to this nation. “We have been protesting in Western Sahara since last November and we had little media coverage comparing to the Arab Spring,” she told me. Her claims were confirmed by Pro. Noam Chomsky, the American philosopher and activist. (Watch the video below)

I dream of a world where we have an absolute democracy but I find hard time to think that my dream would come true one day. I hope I’d still be alive to see my dream comes true.

Interview with Senia from Western Sahara

Chomsky talks about Western Sahara

Couple videos from Western Sahara's Uprising for Independence:

Africa's last colony -Western Sahara

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