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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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Apr 20, 2012

W. Sahara: EP condemns repression of Saharawi people - Europe - ANSAMed.it

(ANSAmed) - STRASBOURG, APRIL 19 - The European Parliament "condemns the ongoing repression of the Saharawi people in occupied territories". This is the message from the Strasbourg Assembly, where the report on human rights around the world has been approved by a large majority.

"After the UN resolutions, the document approved in Strasbourg is the most significant victory recorded yet for the Saharawi cause," said the Euro MP Pino Arlacchi (Democratic Party), who said that the text expresses a "clear position in favour of independence".

Euro MPs are demanding that basic rights be respected in Western Sahara, including freedom of association and expression, but have also called for the release of 80 Saharawi political prisoners and, in particular, "of the 23 prisoners without trial in the prison of Salé, following the dismantling of the Gdeim Izik camp".

The European Parliament has repeated its calls for the creation of an international monitoring mechanism of human rights in the region and for a lasting solution to the conflict "based on the right of self-determination for the Saharawi people", in line with the UN resolutions.

Arlacchi said that the European Parliament had taken a "clear stance in favour of the independence of Western Sahara" and that this would "certainly affect ongoing negotiations, with the aim of ending the last remaining case of colonial oppression in Africa". (ANSAmed).

Africa's last colony -Western Sahara

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