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Tausende Spanier demonstrieren gegen Marokkos Westsahara-Aktionen

Madrid - Tausende Menschen haben am Samstag in Madrid gehen das Vorgehen Marokkos in der Westsahara demonstriert. Bei der gewaltsamen Räumung eines Zeltlagers protestierender Einheimischer und den anschließenden Unruhen in der Regionalhauptstadt Laayoune waren am Montag in der ehemaligen spanischen Kolonie mindestens zehn Menschen ums Leben gekommen. mehr...

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Arrests in W Sahara over unrest
Morocco arrests 96 people accused of inciting violence during police raid on a squatter camp in disputed Western Sahara.
14.11.2010 - Aljazeera

Moroccan authorities say they have arrested 96 people accused of inciting violence during a police raid on a squatter camp near the Western Sahara town of Laayoune. Most of those detained are blamed for setting fires and destroying private and public goods, the Moroccan public prosecutor's office in Laayoune said in a statement on Saturday. At least three "are accused of threatening the state's internal security", the statement said ... mehr

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angeblich ist die grenze westsahara mauretanien zur zeit gesperrt

Hallo Uschi,

danke für deinen Hinweis. Aktuelle Infos zur Grenze findet ihr in einem neuen Thema hier



Polisario warnt vor neuem Krieg gegen Marokko
Bucharaya Beyin: "Wir haben Waffen, Männer und den Willen"
19.11.2010 - Standard

Madrid - Die Befreiungsbewegung Polisario droht mit der Wiederaufnahme des bewaffneten Kampfes gegen Marokko, sollte nicht bald eine Lösung für den Westsahara-Konflikt gefunden werden. Man verfüge über "Waffen, Männer und den Willen", erneut gegen Marokko in den Krieg zu ziehen, erklärte am Freitag in Madrid Bucharaya Beyin, Polisario-Sprecher in Spanien ... mehr
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Spain: The Media War over Western Sahara
19.11.2010 - Morocco Board News Service

Since the events of [the Western Sahara city of] Laayoune, on November 8, a waltz of inaccurate, false statement and fabrications from the Media in Spain is falling on its southern neighbor, Morocco.
The Latest blow: the announcement of death of two citizens who are very much alive and an invention of quote attributed to the head of a Moroccan NGO ... mehr


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Polisario Front wants an investigation into violence in Western Sahara

Polisario Front rebels in Western Sahara have requested a UN investigation into violence that occurred on November 8 in the city of Laayoune. The fighting occurred after the dismantling by the Moroccan security forces of illegal camping on the outskirts of the city. mehr...

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Spain: Civil War Trauma and "Historical Guilt" Over Western Sahara
23.11.2010 - Morocco Board News Service

The Guardian, a UK daily known for its Liberal-Center-Left editorial line, recently published an article that defended the Spanish media campaign against Morocco, and initiated a comment by a Spanish journalist who rationalized Spain’s anti-Morocco media campaign as “a historical guilt”. Supposedly, this “historical guilt” centers on an alleged French-American plot that duped the late Spanish dictator Franco into leaving the Western Sahara for the Moroccans. In fact, a “historical guilt” does clearly explain the relentless efforts by Spaniards to portray Morocco as a “backward” and “unsophisticated” nation. However, this guilt has more to do with Spaniard’s inability, unwillingness and indisposition to face the horrific events of the Spanish Civil War than n imaginary Moroccan conspiracy against a Saharan country that never existed ... mehr
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Moroccan nationalists 'hack Algerian embassy website'
24.11.2010 - AFP

ALGIERS — The website of Algeria's embassy in Washington has been targeted by Moroccan nationalist hackers, the mission said Wednesday. Two other Algerian websites also appeared to be affected, according to statements on the websites, in attacks apparently motivated by Algiers' support for the Polisario Front. The Front wants a referendum on self-determination for the Western Sahara region, with independence from Morocco as one of the options ... mehr


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Violence in Western Sahara: Rabat rejects a UN investigation
27.11.2010 - Ennahar

Morocco rejects a UN investigation into the violence that occurred on November 8 in Western Sahara and rejects the UN mission, MINURSO has jurisdiction over human rights, said the head of the Moroccan diplomacy in an interview published Saturday in El Pais ... mehr

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Is al Qaeda interested in Western Sahara's Polisario Front?
29.11.2010 - dscriber

GIBRALTAR -- I am grateful to my esteemed colleague Francisco Rubiales for pointing me to reports that the rebel national liberation movement in the Western Sahara, the Polisario Front (or Frente Polisario), may have been targeted by al Qaeda. Francisco, apart from being a much respected journalist, was a correspondent in Cuba, Central America and Italy as well as an advisor to the United Nations. Currently, he writes the very interesting Voto en Blanco blog ... mehr
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Ethnische Säuberung in der Sahara?
Seit Anfang November eskaliert die Situation in der von den Marokkanern besetzten Sahara-Zone immer mehr.
30.11.2010 - kanarenexpress

Bei der gewaltsamen Räumung des Flüchtlingslagers Gdeim Izik bei El Aaiún, der provisorischen und inoffiziellen Hauptstadt der Westsahara, soll es mehr als 4.500 Verletzte und mehr als 2.000 Verhaftungen gegeben haben. Beobachter vor Ort sprechen von Dutzenden von Toten, Misshandlungen, Vergewaltigungen und einem so großen Chaos, dass genaue Informationen nicht möglich sind. Vor allem Jugendliche wurden verschleppt, und zahlreiche Menschen kehrten erst nach schweren Folterungen wieder zurück ... mehr


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Spannungen zwischen Madrid und Rabat

Marokkanische Regierung: Beziehungen werden "von Grund auf" geprüft

Rabat/Madrid - Der Konflikt um die Westsahara hat neue Spannungen zwischen Spanien und Marokko ausgelöst. mehr...

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Morocco says soldiers smuggled arms for Al Qaeda
12.01.2011 - Reuters

RABAT - Morocco said five of its soldiers face trial after they helped to smuggle weapons into an area of the disputed Western Sahara that were destined for a cell linked to Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) ... mehr
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UPDATE 1 - Morocco says soldiers let arms get to al Qaeda
12.01.2011 - Reuters

RABAT - Morocco said five of its soldiers face trial for taking bribes from people smuggling weapons into an area of the disputed Western Sahara for a cell linked to al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) ... mehr


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Exclusive: Ex-Polisario Front police chief tells his story
16.01.2011 - Washington Post

Mustafa Salma Uld Sidi Mouloud, as I have previously reported, is the former police chief of the Polisario Front, a Soviet-style liberation group that has resorted to violence against Morocco and the people of the Western Sahara. The front also has opposed (in conjunction with Algeria) an autonomy plan proposed by Morocco that could end the suffering of those living in squalid camps in Algeria ... mehr

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Vor 1 Woche kam ein Zodiac mit 22 Fluechtlingen aus Layounne in Fuerteventura an,alle haben asyl beantragt,5 davon haben asyl erhalten weil sie massgeblich am Camp in Layounne beteiligt waren.
Laut Angaben der Fluechtlinge haben die Marrokanischen Gendarme am Strand von Rio de Oro "ein Auge zugedrueckt"
und die Saharauis zur Flucht aufgefordert.
Scheint so als ob Marroko sich so laestiger Saharauis/Polisarios entledigt und fuer Spanien und den Westen scheint es das kleinere Uebel zu sein...
so wird das Problem auch geloest.....

http://www.laprovincia.es/canarias/2011 ... 46634.html

Allein in der Sahara: 39.000 Flüchtlinge und ein Arzt
18.01.2011 -Ärztezeitung

In der Region zwischen Ägypten bis zur nördlichen Sahara ist die Sorge eines Bürgeraufstandes groß - besonders seit dem Umsturz in Tunesien. Ein ständiger Konfliktpunkt ist die Lebenssituation von Flüchtlingen aus früheren Kriegen. Auch in Marokko warten seit über 30 Jahren die Saharauis auf die Rückkehr in ihre Heimat ... mehr

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Ending Al-Qaeda in North Africa
20.01.2011 - Hudson NY

For the sake of international peace and security, the time is ripe to resolve a longstanding conflict over territory in North Africa that has become a major breeding ground for terrorists. The western Sahara, a 101,000 square mile strip held by Morocco, has been subject to guerrilla raids by a paramilitary organization known as the Polisario during a war that lasted 30 years and isn't entirely over. Backed by the junta that rules Algeria, Polisario militia police a network of refugee camps in the south Algerian desert where abject poverty and corruption cause thousands of deserters to leave each year. Many have joined Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, a deadly organization that exploits the lawlessness of a no-man's land between the Arab Maghreb and the horn of Africa known as the Sahel ... mehr

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Western Sahara : the persistency of the conflict aggravates the AQMI
21.01.2011 - sahara-news

The informal discussions between Morocco and Polisario about the Western Sahara issue will be resumed on 21st January, under the UN aegis, while the international pressures become more intense to put an end to this regional conflict which persists in an area which is being gradually invaded by the AQMI terrorist threat. Till now, the meetings supervised by the UN mediator Christopher Ross, did not allow remarkable progress ... mehr

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