#polisario front

[phobic-human]

PFLP - Polisario Solidarity

Women department of the PFLP saultes women's struggle in the Democratic Republic of Arab Sahara on the occasion of the International Day for Women on the 8th of March.

Artist: Unknown

Circa. 1977

[milfstalin]

Algeria announced on Thursday it will reestablish visa requirements for Moroccan nationals effective immediately, accusing its North African neighbour of deploying "Zionist intelligence agents".

In a statement, the Algerian foreign ministry accused Morocco of taking advantage of the visa exemption arrangement to "engage in various actions detrimental to the stability of Algeria and its national security".

The ministry cited: "The large-scale organisation of organised crime networks, drug and human trafficking, smuggling, illegal immigration and acts of espionage, as well as the deployment of Zionist intelligence agents, holders of Moroccan passports, to freely access the national territory."

"These acts constitute a direct threat to the national security of our country and impose firm and strict control of all points of access and stay in the national territory," the statement added.

[...]

In August 2021, Algeria broke off diplomatic relations with Morocco, accusing its neighbour of "hostile acts".

Notably, it is alleged that Rabat was linked to the deadly fires that ravaged its territory, which Algerian authorities blamed on the Movement for the Self-Determination of Kabylia (MAK), an independence organisation in the northern Amazigh-speaking region that they classify as terrorist.

At the time, the head of Algerian diplomacy also accused Morocco of spying on Algerian officials with the Israeli Pegasus software and failing in its bilateral obligations, including in regards to the Western Sahara, where Algiers supports the Polisario Front, an independence movement.

Morocco had deemed the decision to sever ties "completely unjustified", rejecting "the fallacious, even absurd, pretexts that underlie it".

Subsequently, Algiers terminated the contract for the supply of natural gas to Morocco through the Maghreb-Europe gas pipeline and closed the airspace to Moroccan planes.

"In addition to the traditional disputes that exist between the two states, whereby Algeria accuses Morocco of using the common borders to smuggle drugs, engage in smuggling and illegal emigration, Algeria is bothered by the presence of Israel on its borders. The authorities fear actions of internal destabilisation. Hence this extreme reaction," Boukhlef told MEE.

In 2020, when the normalisation of relations between Morocco and Israel was announced in exchange for Washington's recognition of Rabat's sovereignty over Western Sahara, Algiers denounced the "arrival of the Zionist entity at [its] doorstep" and "foreign operations aimed at destabilising Algeria".

[...]

27 Sept 2024

[hahahax30]

I came back from watching a documentary on Western Sahrawi women and their fight for the freedom of their people, as well as the suffering and torture they've had to endure along the process. It was an amazing and painful documentary, sadly it's not out yet. When it is, if anyone has the means to watch Insumisas: Mujeres en Lucha por el Sáhara Occidental, then I genuinely can't recommend it more.

I don't know how far my voice will reach, but reminder that Morocco is a colonial force in 2024 and that the Western Sahara is Africa's last colony. The Sahrawis have endured great pains and still they fight for their freedom, even when Morocco purchases weapons (including high end military drones) from none other than Israel the Sahrawi people keep fighting and surviving in occupied WS, the Algerian refugee camps they've been seeking shelter in for almost half a century and anywhere else in the diaspora.

Please, keep an eye out for the Palestinian people's siblings-in-struggle, the Sahrawis. Learn about them and their history and their present and the Polisario Front (can recommend books in Spanish like Breve Historia del Sáhara Occidental though there must be others in English as well + female Sahrawi activists like Sultana Khaya or Aminatou Haidar)

[zvaigzdelasas]

30 Jul 24

[countriesgame]

Please reblog for a bigger sample size!

If you have any fun fact about the Sahrawi Republic, please tell us and I'll reblog it!

Be respectful in your comments. You can criticize a government without offending its people.

[mesetacadre]

Glad to see the love for the Polisario on your blog description btw, it's one of the reasons I originally followed you

What Spain did to the Saharaui people is a fucking travesty and I hope that anyone in this country that doesn't acknowledge the Western Sahara gets nightmares for the rest of their lives

Spain at first basically just ignored the Sahrawis as Morocco began its colonial settlements, and after the (undemocratic) decision to join NATO (by PSOE, which had campaigned against joining NATO beforehand, lmao) there was no hope of any kind of mediation or responsibility. European and Moroccan capital needs to extract the many rare earth deposits of the SADR. The Polisario front will win eventually, regardless of how much this country wants to sweep them under the rug, because as long as there are Sahrawis, there will be an armed resistance against settler colonialism.

I got to meet a member of the UJSARIO one time, actually, they were a pretty cool person. Obviously can't say much more about that, but rest assured the Sahrawi resistance is still going strong, and they recently declared that they'd step up their military actions.

[sissa-arrows]

This post will be in French as the space I mention will be in French and therefore you kinda need to be a francophone to understand it if you choose to attend.

Le 6 décembre à 20h (heure française) l’avocat Gilles DEVERS à l’initiative d’une plainte collective pour juger les crimes de guerre et les crimes contre l’humanité de la colonie de peuplement d’Israel sera présent sur un Space Twitter.

Le lien

Maître DEVERS est aussi l’avocat du Front Polisario.

Donc ceux qui seront dispo je vous conseille vivement d’aller écouter le Space.

Edit: Pour ce dans un fuseau horaire différent le Space sera enregistré. Vous pouvez envoyez vos questions dès maintenant si vous voulez qu’elle soit posé à l’avocat.

[mapsontheweb]

International recognition of Western Sahara

by factswithmaps

The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic was proclaimed by the Polisario Front on 27 February 1976, in Bir Lehlou, Western Sahara. SADR claims sovereignty over the entire territory of Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony; however, at present the SADR government controls only about 20–25% of the territory it claims. It calls the territories under its control the "Liberated Territories". As of July 2021, the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic is recognized by 39 out of a total of 193 United Nations member states. At different times, the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic has been recognized by 84 UN member states, but, of these, 45 have since "frozen" or "withdrawn" recognition. SADR has, at some point in time, been recognized by 43.5% of United Nations (UN) member states, 38 out of the other 54 (70%) African Union (AU) member states, 18 out of 57 (32%) Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) member states, and 5 out of 22 (23%) Arab League (AL) member states. Several states that do not recognize the Sahrawi Republic nonetheless recognize the Polisario Front as the legitimate representative of the population of the Western Sahara, but not as the government-in-exile of a sovereign state.

[stillnaomi]

The Central Organizing Committee (COC) of the Communist Party of Kenya (CPK) welcomes the recent ruling by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) that invalidates the illegal exploitation of Western Sahara’s natural resources under agreements between Morocco and the European Union. This landmark decision reaffirms the distinct status of Western Sahara and underscores the inalienable right of the Saharawi people to self-determination.

Western Sahara, formerly colonized by Spain, became a victim of post-colonial partitioning when Spain withdrew in 1975. Morocco and Mauritania both sought to annex the territory, with Morocco continuing to occupy Western Sahara after Mauritania withdrew in 1979. Since then, the Saharawi people, led by the Polisario Front, have resisted Morocco’s occupation through diplomatic and armed struggle, demanding independence. Despite the United Nations’ recognition of the Saharawi right to self-determination, Morocco’s occupation persists, bolstered by foreign economic interests and political complicity.

The ECJ’s ruling represents a crucial step toward justice, affirming that Morocco has no sovereignty over Western Sahara and cannot legally enter into agreements that exploit the occupied territory's resources. The Communist Party of Kenya condemns the EU’s continued efforts to circumvent this ruling and exploit Western Sahara’s resources in violation of international law.

We call upon African nations, particularly those with revolutionary traditions, to stand with the Saharawi people in their fight for independence. We also urge the government of Kenya to align with this international legal precedent by strengthening solidarity with Western Sahara. As we confront neocolonialism and imperialism across the African continent, it is essential that we support all liberation movements, including that of the Saharawi people, against the exploitation of their land and resources.

The Communist Party of Kenya remains unwavering in its Pan-Africanist commitment to solidarity with all oppressed peoples. We affirm that the struggle of the Saharawi is intrinsically linked to our broader fight against imperialism and for the liberation of all African nations.

In the spirit of internationalism, we reiterate: There is no peace without justice, and there is no justice without independence!

Issued by:

Central Organizing Committee Communist Party of Kenya

October 2024

[beardedmrbean]

The United Nations envoy to Western Sahara has proposed dividing the territory between Morocco and the pro-independence Polisario Front in order to resolve the decades-old conflict, AFP learned Thursday.

"I have discreetly revisited and expanded with all concerned on the concept of a partition of the Territory," Staffan de Mistura said during a closed session of the UN Security Council on Wednesday, according to remarks seen by AFP.

Western Sahara is largely controlled by Morocco but the Algeria-backed Polisario Front has campaigned for independence for the territory since before colonial ruler Spain pulled out in 1975.

It is considered a "non-autonomous territory" by the United Nations.

Rabat, which controls some 80 percent of the vast expanse, advocates a plan for limited autonomy for Western Sahara under Moroccan sovereignty. 

The Polisario is calling for a referendum on self-determination under the aegis of the UN, which had been planned when a ceasefire was signed in 1991 but never implemented.

De Mistura, a 77-year-old Italian-Swedish diplomat, has been Secretary-General Antonio Guterres' personal envoy for the territory for the past three years.

"Such an option could allow for the creation on the one hand of an independent state in the southern part, and on the other hand the integration of the rest of the Territory as part of Morocco, with its sovereignty over it internationally recognised," De Mistura told the Security Council, according to the remarks.

At the same time, he acknowledged "no sign of willingness to consider exploring it further from either Morocco nor Frente POLISARIO."

The Polisario said the plan fails to "enshrine" the Sahrawi people's right to self determination.

Sidi Omar, the Polisario representative to the UN, said the movement "strongly affirms its total and categorical rejection of any 'proposals' or 'initiatives'," in a post on X.

[a-room-of-my-own]

Je chiale.

LFI a oublié que même si la « cause palestinienne » crée une unité de surface dans le monde arabe, ces pays ont des relations qui vont de l’indifférence à la franche détestation.

L’autre gourde de Rima Hassan est allée s’afficher avec des militants du front Polisario qui veulent l’indépendance du Sahara Occidental, et qui sont vus généralement comme soutenus par l’Algérie. Voilà le résultat.

On attend le score de LFI dimanche mais si les tunisiens aussi déduisent que LFI est à la solde des algériens potentiellement on va bien rigoler.

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 2.27 (after 1940)

1940 – Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14. 1942 – World War II: During the Battle of the Java Sea, an Allied strike force is defeated by a Japanese task force in the Java Sea in the Dutch East Indies. 1943 – The Smith Mine #3 in Bearcreek, Montana, explodes, killing 74 men. 1943 – The Holocaust: In Berlin, the Gestapo arrest 1,800 Jewish men with German wives, leading to the Rosenstrasse protest. 1951 – The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting Presidents to two terms, is ratified. 1961 – The first congress of the Spanish Trade Union Organisation is inaugurated. 1962 – Vietnam War: Two dissident Republic of Vietnam Air Force pilots bomb the Independence Palace in Saigon in a failed attempt to assassinate South Vietnam President Ngô Đình Diệm. 1963 – The Dominican Republic receives its first democratically elected president, Juan Bosch, since the end of the dictatorship led by Rafael Trujillo. 1964 – The Government of Italy asks for help to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over. 1971 – Doctors in the first Dutch abortion clinic (the Mildredhuis in Arnhem) start performing artificially-induced abortions. 1973 – The American Indian Movement occupies Wounded Knee in protest of the federal government. 1976 – The former Spanish territory of Western Sahara, under the auspices of the Polisario Front declares independence as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic. 1988 – Sumgait pogrom: The Armenian community in Sumgait, Azerbaijan is targeted in a violent pogrom. 1991 – Gulf War: U.S. President George H. W. Bush announces that "Kuwait is liberated". 2001 – Loganair Flight 670A crashes while attempting to make a water landing in the Firth of Forth in Scotland. 2002 – Ryanair Flight 296 catches fire at London Stansted Airport causing minor injuries. 2002 – Godhra train burning: A Muslim mob torches a train returning from Ayodhya, killing 59 Hindu pilgrims. 2004 – A bombing of a SuperFerry by Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines' worst terrorist attack kills more than 100 passengers. 2004 – Shoko Asahara, the leader of the Japanese doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo, is sentenced to death for masterminding the 1995 Tokyo subway sarin attack. 2007 – Chinese stock bubble of 2007: The Shanghai Stock Exchange falls 9%, the largest daily fall in ten years, following speculation about a crackdown on illegal share offerings and trading, and fears about accelerating inflation. 2008 – Jemaah Islamiyah terrorist Mas Selamat Kastari escapes from a detention center in Singapore, hiding in Johor, Malaysia until he was recaptured over a year later. 2010 – An earthquake measuring 8.8 on the moment magnitude scale strikes central parts of Chile leaving over 500 victims, and thousands injured. The quake triggers a tsunami which strikes Hawaii shortly after. 2013 – A shooting takes place at a factory in Menznau, Switzerland, in which five people (including the perpetrator) are killed and five others injured. 2015 – Russian politician Boris Nemtsov is assassinated in Moscow while out walking with his girlfriend. 2019 – Pakistan Air Force JF-17 Thunder downs Indian pilot Abhinandan Varthaman's Mig-21 in an aerial dogfight and captures him after conducting airstrikes in Jammu and Kashmir.

[revindicatedbyhistory]

I said this here once but not in English but I thought you'd want to know because a it's great story to share during family dinners. My Timorese grandfather was trained in guerilla warfare by ETA in the woods of the French Basque Country to fight against Indonesia during their occupation of East Timor ☺

In fact I came to learn from him many Fretilin (alongside some Sahrawis from the Polisario Front) militants were trained by ETA and the IRA, but my grandfather was never a member of Fretilin.

holy shit based

[traincoded]

interrupting joyous celebrations to remind myself of nuance

[zvaigzdelasas]

[Atalayar is Spanish Media]

The dismissal last December of former president Pedro Castillo has left Peru in an unprecedented political crisis.[...]

However, the issue of greatest concern to Congress today is the legacy of Pedro Castillo's position on the Western Sahara question. It should be remembered that the policy advocated by the former president was favourable to the Polisario Front, a political, armed and pro-independence movement in the Western Sahara. This stance led the country into a diplomatic crisis with its old ally Morocco, a crisis that did not subside after Pedro Castillo's dismissal and arrest. Congress calls on the executive to rethink its position on the SADR [...]

[An MP from Avanza País party] recalled that Morocco and Peru share a “common history” which “invites us to strengthen and consolidate ties with the Kingdom of Morocco, an increasingly important power in Africa and in the current system of international relations, and to work together to promote peace, security and respect for territorial integrity”. [...]

In her letter, Patricia Chirinos recalls that relations between Morocco and Peru have often been weakened by the dispute over the SADR. Peru recognised the SADR in 1984, “in an international context marked by the bipolar world of the Cold War”. The Peruvian MP welcomes the updating of this position in 1996, “when this recognition was suspended, thus opening up a promising new bilateral chapter between the Peruvian and Moroccan states”. [...]

In addition to the fact that recognition of Western Sahara would be a breach of international law, the Peruvian MP is concerned about “a series of new and emerging threats based, among other things, on the interconnection between states that do not respect democratic principles and terrorist organisations, separatist movements or organised crime”. In her view, “this situation poses a serious threat to the security of our countries, a threat that has increased in the Latin American region["][...]

The former Peruvian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Miguel Angel Rodriguez Mackay, shares the Congress' point of view. He published an opinion piece last Friday in the Peruvian daily Expreso, stating that his country should follow the common-sense approach adopted by countries such as the United States, Spain and Israel, which have recently recognised Morocco's sovereignty over the Western Sahara, as have the vast majority of countries in the international community.

24 Aug 23

[immemorymag]

A War Against Oblivion by David Verberckt

On 14 November 2020, the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) president Brahim Ghali announced that he signed a decree bringing the 29 year old ceasefire to an end, citing an incident 2 days earlier in which Moroccan armed forces forcibly entered a crossing within the buffer zone that was being blocked by Sahrawi protesters, acts which the SADR considered a declaration of war. Since then the Polisario Front, the armed branch of the SADR, has been launching attacks against Moroccan positions along the 2,700 km sand wall that divides the territories controlled by Morocco since the 1991 ceasefire and the remaining 20% of the territory controlled by the SADR. Being outnumbered the Polisario Front uses highly mobile units to attack and adopts guerrilla techniques while Morocco has numerous troops engraved in bunkers along the sand berm forming the frontline. The Moroccan army has also started to use attack drones further complicating the Polisario's mobility capacity in this huge desert battlefield. Sahrawi military commander communicating with his units on the frontline near the 2,700 km long sand berm, built by Morocco, dividing the Western Sahara between the Moroccan controlled territories and Sahrawi liberated territories.