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The long struggle for Sahrawi national rights
Much of the media is ignoring Morocco’s breach of a 1991 ceasefire with a military incursion into Western Sahara. TOBY SHELLEY shines a light on a forgotten occupied territory whose people are preparing for another long war
Sahrawi women protesting agains the Moroccan occupation, 2005
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ON November 13 war resumed in the Western Sahara, though most people will have missed it.
There’s been a news blackout by the occupying power — Morocco — and the media of the previous colonial regime — Spain — also avoided the story.
The trigger point was a Moroccan military incursion into a demilitarised zone between Western Sahara and Mauritania, attacking an encampment of Sahrawi refugees protesting against Morocco laying a highway across the strip of land to facilitate a massive increase in commercial traffic carrying produce plundered from the occupied bulk of the Western Sahara southwards and EU fish catches northwards. The Guerguerat crossing has long been a point of tension.
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