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Stop Moroccan colonization ---- Behind the tourist dream, Morocco is actually a settler
state, which maintains its domination in the territory of the Saharawi people in their
struggle for independence. Resistance exists despite strong crackdown on its activists.
Built from 1980 to 1987 by the Moroccan royal forces, a long wall 2 700 km shear Western
Sahara from north to south. Virtually unknown, it is a relentless military facility
equipped with radars, guns, millions of mines and weapons of war, guarded by 100,000
Moroccan soldiers to serve the claim Makhzen (Moroccan state) in this territory, and to
prevent intrusions of the Polisario Front, the political arm and armed independence
Sahrawis. Despite this real military barrier built to isolate and destroy the Saharawi
people leading an anti-colonial resistance which reveals the back of a setting designed to
charm tourists and investors. The power trying to hide repression, enforced
disappearances, arbitrary arrests, torture in prisons and police stations, unfair trials
and harsh sentences activists and Moroccan and Saharawi political activists.
French complicity
Western Sahara, occupied illegally by Morocco since the withdrawal of Spanish colonizers
in 1975, Morocco's refusal to apply international law has always frustrated the
negotiations with the Polisario Front.
More than seventy activists and Sahrawi activists currently in prison and dozens of others
awaiting trial. Twenty activists and human rights activists have been detained since
November 2010 following the violent dismantling of Gdeim Izik installed in the desert more
than 20,000 Sahrawis to defend their political, economic, social and cultural rights.
Enna?ma Asfari, co-chairman of CORELSO arrested on the eve of the facts alleged against
him (!) Was sentenced to thirty years in prison in the sinister prison of Sal?. The French
government, right as a socialist, true to this shameful friendship has always maintained a
complicit silence, when it does not boast the progress of Morocco's human rights.
Resistance was organized
Policies, trade unions, voluntary solidarity with the struggle of the Saharawi people do
not release their mobilization (delegations, protests, observers to the trials ...) for
the release of Saharawi political prisoners, stop the repression and respect for
fundamental freedoms.
The Moroccan government does not move in this summer and sent a very bad signal to
activists of international solidarity with the arrest and confinement of Michele Decaster,
prevented from entering into the Saharawi territory. Exceptional security measures
(isolation, violence and destruction of hard drives) were also taken against other activists.
Like any colonial state, Morocco not only of illegally occupying the territory of Western
Sahara, it also illegally monopolizes its natural resources. This is an important aspect
of the right of peoples to self-determination. The impunity of international makhzan that
violates the rights of the Saharawi people and more broadly of the Moroccan people in a
total media blackout is reminiscent of another colonial ongoing situation in Palestine
without any sanction from the famous "international community."
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