In the former Spanish colony of Western Sahara, the southern Sudanese independence process with interest and envy pursued
On Saturday the 9th July sees the Republic of South Sudan (ROSS), a new state into the world. The Southern Sudan, after a referendum in early January, in which the population is in favor of the independence of the strip of land in the Sahara, officially the 54th Country in Africa. For the first time the limits are the Warenne been drawn in colonial times with a ruler on the drawing table, adapted to reality. Previously this was a taboo in the black continent.
On the other side of the desert, in the former Spanish colony of Western Sahara, the southern Sudanese independence process with interest and envy will be prosecuted. Even here they have their own state. The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic was proclaimed in 1976 by the liberation movement Polisario. She braced himself desperately against the Moroccan forces of King Hassan II.He had his Green March 1975 sent hundreds of thousands of civilians on the southern border to occupy the Spanish Western Sahara. Spanish dictator Francisco Franco lay dying and took the land from the Atlantic, from opposite Canary Islands to Morocco and Mauritania. International law, because without a referendum, in which the ancestral population could have their wish to express how so provide the United Nations.
Morocco annexed the northern two-thirds of Western Sahara, Mauritania the southern third. Against Mauritania, the Polisario in 1979 won the war. Morocco then occupied the whole of Western Sahara and drove tens of thousands of Saharawi people. They were bombed with napalm, wells were poisoned. About half of the original population is now living in refugee camps in West Algerian Tindouf. There resides the exile government of DARS. Morocco built a 2,000-kilometer-long wall of sand and stones to protect the occupied Länderreien. The desert was mined.
Although closed in 1991 under the mediation of the United Nations cease-fire between Morocco and the Polisario, but provided for a referendum on the future of Western Sahara was never there. Morocco recognizes the voter lists at the UN is not, and does so on time, while the refugees in the camps get forgotten.
In recent years Morocco has begun to call a referendum as imponderable. Instead, Rabat wants to impose the Saharawi autonomy solution. Protests of the population as a camp with 20,000 demonstrators last November near the former capital of Western Sahara El Aaiun, are brutally suppressed.
The head of the Polisario and the exiled government of President DARS Mohamed Abdel-Aziz was among the first who went to referendum recovered in the southern Sudan, to congratulate them. "Morocco is the occupying power obliged to recognize the rights of the Sahrawi people to self-determination. Sooner or later, will assert the will of the people," encouraged the prime minister of South Sudan, Salva Kirr the President of the Saharawi people.
But in Madrid, Paris, Washington and Brussels, they see it that way and continue to support Morocco and that the breach of international law. More and more desperate, young Sahrawis ask their leadership to handle the new weapons.
