Por Pilar Celi Frías (Campamento de Refugiados Saharaui – Tindouf- Argelia)
Treinta y seis años de lucha han acompañado aproximadamente a 400 mil personas en la Hamada argelina ubicada en el Sáhara Occidental. Los Saharauis solo desean recuperar su tierra que les fue usurpada en 1976 por el gobierno marroquí. Para conocer más de este pueblo sunk into oblivion, the refugee camp "February 27" opened its doors to Terra.
"We feel a lot of anger because we know that it is time to reclaim our land and return to our homeland. Young people are not going to sit idly by watching as Morocco benefits from our resources, we need international governments to be involved in this conflict, we are tired of sacks and bags of rice, bags and packages need consciousness. We hope that the fighting end by political means, but we who we risk and give their lives if necessary, to stop this fight "says Talebuya Hanadi, 24 years young Sahrawi who studied political science in Algeria.
Hanadi explained that the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) is the young who are tired and will take up arms if necessary to confront the Moroccan government. Like him, many believe Sahrawi Polisario Front Party (SADR government 36 years ago) should forget the negotiations that have no where to end and fight for freedom for their people.
History of the Conflict with Morocco
The SADR was formed on February 27, 1976, when thousands of Saharawi were expelled from Western Sahara, currently occupied by Morocco. For those times Sahrawis were a English colony (From 1884 to 1975) and by signing the tripartite agreement between Spain, Morocco and Mauritania divided the territory of the Sahrawi (Western Sahara) between the two countries mentioned. Given this
the Polisario Front for its status as a liberation movement fought against Morocco (which invaded the territory in the north) and Mauritania (it was for the south) to retrieve all the land belonging to the Saharan and was transferred Spain. "Which is why there is great resentment against the colonizing country and we know very well that there are great interests at stake by France that supports all movements Morocco "indicates Uleida Mohamed, director of the Museum of the Resistance located in the refugee camp" February 27. "
Uleida explains that the area currently occupied by Morocco should be returned to the Western Sahara, mostly because there are separate families because that geographic area has one of the largest phosphate deposits in the world and a very high-fishing trade by crustaceans existence of all species, with only benefiting the Moroccan government and not the Saharawi true owners of these natural resources.
"Spain ceded the territory to Morocco and Mauritania, and through armed struggle achieved Mauritania to withdraw from the conflict, but Morocco and the Saharawi territory was divided thousands of families. We feel resentment against Spain for giving in our territory and even more have left us to live a hellish war that ended many lives, "adds Mohamed Uleida.
The wall of shame and its damaging consequences
now know that approximately 200 000 Saharawi are in the area occupied by Morocco and another 200 thousand exiles living in the Algerian Hamada, territory that was granted by Algeria during the Moroccan invasion and which were built five refugee camps that are named after cities found in the occupied territory, "Smara", "Auserd" "Dakhla and El Aaiun." "February 27" was created by Sahrawi women, at first was an exclusive school for women and eventually became a refugee camp.
The division between the camps and the occupied territory is also sustained by the so-called "wall of shame", Moroccan construction material destruction included several million landmines, banned internationally which have given rise to countless victims who lost many cases, body parts and other life .. The wall presents 2700 long and 2 meters high, there is approximately a distance of 800 yards from the refugee camps that divides hundreds of families.
Said Mohamed Fadel has 58 years of age and 26 was the victim of a landmine which left him completely paralyzed. Since then spends his days lying in bed in the "War Wounded Center, created by the SADR.
"The Saharawi have shed much blood to recover our land. Many have been paralyzed on the road, but that does not matter because all conflicts are victims. I'm lying in bed, hoping that the television any day can see that we have finally been freed from the hell in which we live and which is necessary for the whole world knows, "says Mohamed while observing daily Arab news channels.
Dr. Marcelino Ramirez, representative of the International Red Cross who lives every day with those who suffered the consequences of mines, said that so far have recorded 400 cases of people who were paralyzed or semi-paralyzed by a landmine, added annually between 4 and 6 new victims. It also indicates that their nationality is English, but that's no reason you feel that is part of a country that has forgotten to thousands of Sahrawi colonized by Spain.
Life in the desert, on the other side of the Wall
Kreikiba Lefdil Aomarv (54) has 6 children and lost her husband, Abdel there in the year 82. "While the men fought against Morocco, women in the camps we stayed all the work developing, building adobe houses, with schools and seeking international aid for survival of the Saharawi" he recalls. Her husband was a martyr in the war when he was 40 and now she spends her days in the refugee camp for 36 years.
"At first we thought that living in the camps would be temporary, but it's been many years since we started, yet the last thing you lose is hope because I know that as many women and men feel their body Saharawi refugee camps but his heart intact across the wall, "says Kreikiba.
She has not forgotten his sisters who live on occupied land and that a wall separates. "I want to be buried in Western Sahara, where I was born and died there, all know Saharawi war for many years and know that if the authorities find a peaceful solution, the weapons are likely to attempt to settle" , above.
assistance received by people from refugee camps reach various agencies including the UN, which is food, and water tanks. In the same way other institutions, government organizations, NGOs, English institutions and from other parts of the world is continuing to help send the refugee camps. The days in the desert camps calmly under high temperature levels ranging between 35 ° and 50 ° F year round. Each camp has schools, health centers and in some houses the seat of parliaments of the SADR.
According to the data handled by the Association of Relatives of Saharawi Prisoners and Disappeared (AFAPREDESA) until there has been a total of 550 missing in the territory occupied also known as "Laayoune. However, the Moroccan government, through a report released in Arabic in late 2010 acknowledged that 350 people had disappeared over the years.
Abd - Salam Omar AFAPREDESA president explained that there is a lot of injustice against the Saharawi people in the Aaiun. "Continually our brothers are victims of retaliation by the Moroccan government, there are many human rights violation and we always hear about different massacres and confinement in the prisons of our compatriots," said Abd Salam.
Amid reprisals which is continuously submerged the Saharawi people, they are still waiting to repossess their land in Western Sahara and live like any other Arab country, but that desire does not have a date. The only thing that is clear is that the Sahrawi are tired of the same speech that they say every year and which bears the name: international negotiations when it should probably be international interest. Terra
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