Arduous "road to freedom" in Western Sahara

Dołączył: 11 Mar 2024 Posty: 1

The history of Western Sahara, the last colony in Africa, is the story of the flagrant violation of international law and the persistence of military occupation for four decades by one African country over another African nation. But it is also the story of the systematic violation of human rights, of thousands of stories of families separated by force, of lives and dreams stolen, but with a flavor of resistance and the refusal of the people of this territory to abdicate. From the first days of Morocco's invasion of the territory in October , thousands of Sahrawis fled the bombings and mass murders, seeking refuge in neighboring Algeria under the protection and organization of the Sahrawi liberation movement, Frente POLISARIO.

And they are still there, living in the second oldest political refugee camp in the world after the Palestinians. To make the situation even worse, the Moroccan army built a , km long military wall strewn with Phone Number List millions of landmines and thousands of soldiers, thus intensifying the separation of families. The Sahrawi woman has always been a strong pillar of the Sahrawi nomadic and Bedouin culture, not only on a social level, but also in political participation in collective life. She was even consulted in war situations, because in traditional Sahrawi culture, everyone must participate in decision-making, including children, who are motivated from a very early age to forge a strong personality, necessary to face difficulties. of the desert.

Since the invasion began, Sahrawi women and young people were the main targets of Moroccan oppression, but they were also the first to rise up and resist with the rigor of youth, attachment to identity and rejection of domination and foreign aggression. Sahrawi women: the same suffering, the same destiny Elghalia Djimi and Mbarka Mehdi, two middle-aged women reflect the history of this conflict poorly covered in the main media. Mbarka fled the invasion with her family as a child, to live in refugee camps. She is a journalist on Sahrawi television. She lost sight of many members of her family who stayed in the occupied city of Smara since , and since then she has not been able to see her homeland.

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