Philadelphia reporter and Temple University professor, Linn Washington Jr.,
reports that, “The
Moroccan occupation of the Western Sahara is rife with human rights abuses
condemned in reports by the Obama Administration and other monitoring
organizations like Amnesty International.”
As
in many places throughout the world, an ethnic minority, is struggling for
freedom and national self-determination against a larger and more powerful
ruling group. In this instance, the Sahrawi,
are at odds with Morocco which has occupied their homeland, Western Sahara for
two decades. The Sahrawi are
penned in with a border wall that would make Texas proud. It is fortified with armed troops and
landmines.
The
international community, with the conspicuous exceptions of France and the
United States, is calling for free and open elections so that Sahrawi can
determine their own future.
Mr. Washington
calls in with a firsthand account.
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