Hello
At the end of every pots I will add some links about Western Sahara, so, you can find more information about my country.
The spanish colonization started in 1884 when the spanish autorithies wanted to protect Canarias islands.
If you remember, in 1884 the european powers started to share out Africa between them in the Conference of Berlin.
Spain got a part of Marocco, Western Sahara, Sidi Ifni and Guinéa Ecuatorial.
I'm going to write about the ocupation of Western sahara, at the end you can find more information about the other countries.
The ocupation of Western Sahara was very slow.
The efective colonization of Western Sahara was in 1936, it was piaceful colonization because the spanish autorithies and the local autorithies made negotiations in order to get the ocupation of Western Sahara.
The ocupation was slow because it's started at the end of XIX Century and it finished in 1936 where all Western Sahara was ocuped.
In Western Sahara there is one of the biggest mine of phosphate and the second shoal of fish in the world.
The spanish colonization continued untill 1975 when Marocco ocuped Western Sahara and the spanish armi leaved us in february of 1976 because the spanish government didn't want to help us to fight against Marocco and didn't want to defens their own province (Western Sahara was a spanish province as Sahara español from 1958).
Polisario Front, the political and military movement for defending Western Sahara in order to get the independence from Spain and now from Marocco, had to fight against Marocco in a very long war (1975-1991) untill the United nation got an agreement between Polisario and Marocco for stoping the war and making an ceasefire.
The United nations promised us a referendum in order to choose if we want to be independent or the integration in Marocco.
Of course! we want to be independent! that is Marocco doesn't want to allow us to celebrate the referendum because logically only the saharauis can vote and Marocco knows that we want to be independent, so, marocco always raise objections for delaying the date of the referendum and get more time.
Unfortunatelly, the referendum has been delayed many times untill now and the International Comunity and the United Nations is not quite interested for put pressure to Marocco, France (the best friend of Marocco who is also putting many obstacles) because as always, there are many economical interests between the power countries and Marocco for working and stealing our natural resources (fish, phosphates and other natural resources).
While Marocco is occuping our country, half of the population is living in the refugee camps in Algerie and the people who is living in Western Sahara under marocan autorithies are been followed and tortured by the maroccan police. while the International Comunity is quiet.
In the following pots I will write about he United Nations responsability, the responsability of Spain and I will develop some issues.
References:
1: http://www.state.gov/www/global/human_rights/1999_hrp_report/wsahara.html
2: http://freeewesternsahara.blogspot.com/
3: http://www.afapredesa.org/index.php
4: http://www.un.org/Depts/dpko/missions/minurso/
jueves 15 de mayo de 2008
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