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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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Feb 25, 2012

EU Parliament to invite Christopher Ross to provide clarifications on Western Sahara conflict | Sahara Press Service

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London, Feb 18, 2012 (SPS) - The President of the European Coordination of Committees of Solidarity with the Saharawi people, Mr. Pierre Galand, declared the intention of the European Parliament to invite the UN Secretary General’s Personal Envoy for Western Sahara, Mr. Christopher Ross, in the near future to give thorough clarifications on the ongoing course of negotiations between Morocco and the Polisario Front under the UN auspices, reported Saturday the London based newspaper of Al-Quds.

In a speech issued in the Algerian El-Watan newspaper, Mr. Galand said that the EU Parliament “has taken this decision that might extend to invite the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, who appears only before the U.S. Congress. Now, the time has come for him to present before the European Parliament on various issues, including Western Sahara,” stressing the need to consider the respect for human rights in Western Sahara.

He noted that if Christopher Ross appears before the European Union “it will be a real turning point in the conflict of Western Sahara and its relations to the European policy.”

“Frente Polisario has succeeded to put the Western Sahara question on the EU discussion table, after it had been only be up to France by virtue of its influence in the Arab Maghreb,” he pointed out.

It should be recalled that the EU Parliament, relying on a UN legal report recommending the absence of legality to fish off Western Sahara waters, voted last December 14 against the extension of the fishing agreement with Morocco, because it includes the territorial waters of Western Sahara, which is a subject of political dispute. (SPS)

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