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| Polisario mulls new armed struggle™ against Morocco |
| 2007-12-17 |
| The Western Sahara independence movement Polisario will vote on Tuesday on whether to revive its armed struggle against Morocco over the desert territory, a Polisario official said on Sunday. International peacekeepers have watched over the resource-rich territory since 1991 when the U.N. brokered a ceasefire between the two sides to end a low-level guerrilla war. But Mhamed Khadad said Polisario officials who met on Saturday at a strategy conference at the Polisario-controlled outpost of Tifariti had considered a resumption of armed struggle, continued negotiations or a mix of the two. "We had a big debate yesterday over negotiations," Khadad, a senior Polisario official who is also the conference spokesman, said by telephone from Tifariti. "The military people said 'We can't keep negotiating idenfinitely. We need to assess the situation ... We should propose resuming armed struggle." "Others said 'No, No, we should continue negotiating because we have a third round of talks just coming up in January." "We will vote on this on the 18th at the end of the conference," Khadad said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 The slight was the invasion of their territoty. The fact is Saharouis (berbers) would noyt become Morrocans from their own free will. Morrocco, staged an invasion that ageing Franco wanted to oppose but his PM advised againt it (Spain was bound top evacuate anyway). Then Morroco took advantage of Franco's agony for sending its populace into Sahara an,d get this mieneral rich teritory. Its inhabitants were exiled. |
| Posted by: JFM 2007-12-17 11:28 |
| #1 Morocco considers the western Sahara area part of the Pre-Colonial Mahgreb, which the Spanish and French agreed would be controlled by Spain. The Polisario were considered to be Algerian-backed troublemakers, trying to get even for some slight against their President or Country - I forget - this was 30 years ago... |
| Posted by: Bobby 2007-12-17 05:58 |