My regulars know that I have a soft spot in my heart for Western Sahara…..years ago when I was working in North Africa and the Middle East I had the opportunity to visit and work in Western Sahara…I was doing research and analysis for a Spanish newspaper……..I fell in love with the region and the people……
Since those days I have been watching and writing about the area’s struggle for independence from Morocco…..it is not as complicated as the news media and the Moroccan government would have one believe…..
The death of the leader of the Polisario, a group fighting for the independence of Western Sahara, has the whole movement in a quandary…..
Late Polisario Front leader Mohamed Abdelaziz kept the dispute over Western Sahara peaceful, but a fruitless, 25-year-long cease-fire with Morocco has young Sahrawis impatient.
Source: What’s next in Western Sahara dispute after death of Polisario leader?
A leader of the independence movement in Western Sahara died Tuesday. Mohamed Abdelaziz was the leader and co-founder of the Sahrawi people’s Polisario Front movement, which has demanded independence ever since Morocco took over most of Western Sahara in 1975. He was 68. A 16-year-long insurgency led by the indigenous Polisario Front ended with a U.N.-brokered truce in 1991. The resolution promised a referendum on independence, which has yet to take place. Morocco is only willing to grant limited autonomy to the disputed region. Eighty-four countries as well as the African Union recognize Western Sahara as an independent nation. In March, Morocco expelled U.N. staffers from Western Sahara after Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon referred to Morocco’s rule over the region as “occupation” during a visit to refugee camps in the Algerian town of Tindouf, located in southwestern Algeria. The expulsion of the 84 U.N. staffers has put at risk the ceasefire between Morocco and the Polisario Front.
It is only a matter of time before this situation explodes again…….the US will naturally come down on the side of Morocco because of some misguided loyalty from the past.
The UN will do whatever the US tells them to do……especially if it falls into the Security Council where the US can use all its power to keep a people oppressed.
What can we expect from the beacon of freedom and liberty?
Reasoned, critical, and nasty. I like it. We all need to start telling it like it is. This nation, once a bastion of liberty, has become an oppressive oligarchy, bent on destroying civilization as the world knows it.
I am ashamed to be considered an American, though not by me, or those who think, for a real American believes in justice, and liberty, and self-responsibility for security. I know very few any more who do so; most of them seem to read my, and this, and a few other blogs. Other than that, the Americans with which I was raised are gone, and our nation has become a blight upon human society.
Tellin’ it like it is…. Of course this country will support the oppressors; that’s where the money is.
gigoid, the dubious
Can you tell I’m in a nasty fucking mood? I hope so; it’s a good thing I live alone, and have no plans to see anyone else today. My patriotic hands want to feel blood, their natural nutrient…
g, t d
I thought you were a bit cranky…LOL chuq
Cranky… that’s an accurate word. Don’t know why, but, the mood I woke up with seems to have evolved into a fountain of rage against the machine.
I’m staying inside today; if I leave the house, somebody will die.
It won’t be me.
*grin*
gigoid
Maybe something you ate? Pizza is the worse for me…LOL chuq
Maybe that’s it; I splurged yesterday, & got some Chinese. The MSG must’ve got me….
Oh, well; I still have a bunch left, so, this might go on for days….
*wink*
Feels great, though, to let it out….
g
But with Chinese you are only cranky for n hour…..LOl chuq
So they say… tell that to my gut… LOL! Besides, after an hour, being hungry makes me cranky again… *wink* gigoid
So a lose-lose scenario eh? chuq
*grin* Got me there. Long run, no; things always change. Some days, longer than others, but, change eventually has its way, regardless of how we feel about it….
See, better already… Must be the visit to the throne….
gigoid
Amazing how a visit will make the world a better place….LOL chuq
Good Rant! “Reasoned, critical, and Nasty…”
Now that you’ve let that out…let the MSG out and things will look up…Trust me i KNOW!
dru
I think he may have done just that….LOL chuq
Hopefully it could be turned into a large piece of collector glass, cut up and sold, piece by piece for home decor – – or building facades – – or something.
Remember I have friends there….kinda offensive.
wonderful write up throwing up the imperfections of the world we live in.
Thanx glad you enjoyed it…..chuq
welcome