Comments on: Western Sahara: Aminatou Haidar Deported http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/11/18/western-sahara-aminatou-haidar-deported/ The world is talking. Are you listening? Wed, 30 May 2012 14:55:52 -0400 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Omar Karim http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/11/18/western-sahara-aminatou-haidar-deported/comment-page-3/#comment-1605578 Omar Karim Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:08:05 +0000 http://globalvoicesonline.org/?p=106923#comment-1605578 Aminatou Haidar is definitely playing a game. Her hunger strike is unwarranted . It is a move to create tension over the Sahara especially when the UN is engaged to find a negotiated settlement to the issue. Ms Haidar was born in Morocco. Her father and family also live in Morocco. She was compensated 50,000 eu by the government of Morocco in line with the policy of reconciliation. She was given a Moroccan passport. Yet she sided with Algeria and the so-called Polisario. It is strange indeed to notice that Ms Haidar wanted to hold Moroccan passport and disown Morocco simultaneously! No nation in the world would accept such a behavior. Morocco used the international law by expelling her outside Morocco. However, Ms Haidar has a political agenda and started a hunger strike to malign Morocco. There are reports suggesting that Ms Haidar was secretly eating and drinking while she is on huger strike! One should expose the blackmail of Ms Haidar, Polisario and Algeria. The latter is spending huge money on propaganda campaign to falsely malign Morocco. Omar Karim Islamabad Aminatou Haidar is definitely playing a game. Her hunger strike is unwarranted . It is a move to create tension over the Sahara especially when the UN is engaged to find a negotiated settlement to the issue. Ms Haidar was born in Morocco. Her father and family also live in Morocco. She was compensated 50,000 eu by the government of Morocco in line with the policy of reconciliation. She was given a Moroccan passport. Yet she sided with Algeria and the so-called Polisario. It is strange indeed to notice that Ms Haidar wanted to hold Moroccan passport and disown Morocco simultaneously! No nation in the world would accept such a behavior. Morocco used the international law by expelling her outside Morocco. However, Ms Haidar has a political agenda and started a hunger strike to malign Morocco. There are reports suggesting that Ms Haidar was secretly eating and drinking while she is on huger strike! One should expose the blackmail of Ms Haidar, Polisario and Algeria. The latter is spending huge money on propaganda campaign to falsely malign Morocco.

Omar Karim Islamabad

]]> By: yassine http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/11/18/western-sahara-aminatou-haidar-deported/comment-page-3/#comment-1605435 yassine Sun, 13 Dec 2009 14:21:41 +0000 http://globalvoicesonline.org/?p=106923#comment-1605435 all this needs is common sense ! why u people think that MOROCCO will give her a passport ? she was asked , MADAM are u MOROCCAN she replied NO . so why on earth u want MOROCCO to grant her a MOROCCAN passport . if she's not Moroccan , then she can die in Spain or in Algeria . all this needs is common sense !
why u people think that MOROCCO will give her a passport ?
she was asked , MADAM are u MOROCCAN she replied NO . so why on earth u want MOROCCO to grant her a MOROCCAN passport .
if she’s not Moroccan , then she can die in Spain or in Algeria .

]]> By: Beniazza mohammed Boujdour http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/11/18/western-sahara-aminatou-haidar-deported/comment-page-3/#comment-1605280 Beniazza mohammed Boujdour Sat, 12 Dec 2009 14:58:48 +0000 http://globalvoicesonline.org/?p=106923#comment-1605280 The world must understand that Aminatou Haidar is being manipulated by the Algerian secret services and that her seeking support from foreign parties will not undermine Morocco's will to go ahead in defending its sovereignty and territorial integrity .Ms.Aminatou Haidar,the separatist, went to a point of no return. She rejected her citizenship voluntarily . On November 13th.She listed “Sahrawi” as her nationality and “Western Sahara” as her country of origin even though she was traveling with a Moroccan passport. Mrs. Aminatou Haider has signed in the presence of her family members and of her own free will official documents renouncing her Moroccan nationality and citizenship. She has violated the law and claimed a nationality that is not recognized by both the U.N. and Morocco. No surprise, then, as to why she was not allowed to enter the country. Mrs. Aminatou Haider, who holds a Spanish residency permit, departed Morocco and returned to the Canary Islands, Spain, where she has refused Spain’s refugee status offer and pretended that she is going on a hunger strike. Ms. Aminatou Haidar, who claims to be a human rights activist, is actually working closely with the Western Sahara Separatist group, Polisario, and their backer, Algeria’s Military Regime. In Fact, She is currently working closely with Algeria’s Ambassador in Washington, Mr. Abdallah Baali , who is coordinating and funding her “human rights” lobbying activities in the US. The goal of Ms. Aminatou Haidar, the Polisario and the Military regime in Algiera is the same. They want to neutralize Morocco’s Autonomy plan, a plan, that is considered by most major powers to be the basis for resolving the Sahara issue in a peaceful manner. Algeria’s current lobbying through proxies such as Ms. Aminatou Haidar and others aims to keep the status Quo in the Sahara by advancing the independence as the only option. In the minds of Algeria’s strategists, keeping Morocco mired in the current situation costs it substantial resources and mitigates any resistance that Morocco would pose to Algeria’s ambition to become a regional power in North Africa. Algeria’s long-term objective is to secure access to the Atlantic ocean through a client “state” such as a "Sahrawi Republic" in the disputed region. Algeria and polisario’s plan for an independent state in southern Morocco is a non-starter. A state in southern morocco constitutes an existential threat to both Morocco and its leadership. Most independent analysts dismiss such an option because it would destabilize the entire North African Region, hasten a military conflict between the two protagonists, empower a new generation of terrorist groups(the kidnapping of three Spanish tourists in Mauritania) and unleash an unprecedented wave of refugees on European southern shores. Algeria, which acts as a defender of self-determination, does not hesitate to violate the basic rights of its own people andthe Moroccan people held captive in Tindouf camps for three decades, refusing to let these populations exercise self-determination over their wish to leave the camps. The Sahara issue is Algeria's main concern, not to say obsession . Algeria,which depicts itself as "a neighboring country" to Morocco, offers a haven, trains and finances separatists who threaten peace and security in the region. Instead of using its resources to solve its socio-economic problems of housing, health and water supply, this country finances polisario's armament. Algeria is not a mere observer country as it pretends but is actively involved in the Sahara issue since its outbreak.It conducts, on a daily basis, a hostile diplomatic campaign against Morocco. Last November, the US secretary of State Hilary Clinton attended a forum on the future of the Middle East & North Africa, in Marrakech, Morocco where she reaffirmed the US longstanding policy that supports the autonomy plan for the Saharan provinces under Moroccan sovereignty as the only realistic solution to end the 34 years old conflict. The Algerian press sharply criticized secretary Clinton’s statements in a wave of misogynistic criticism and the Western Sahara separatist group, Polisario, has accused US secretary of State Hilary Clinton of misstating the US policy on the Sahara conflict. In 2006, Morocco has offered an autonomy plan for Western Sahara as a solution to end the conflict and provide a future for thousands of refugees, now, living in desperate conditions in Algeria’s desert camps. In addition, Morocco has initiated major reforms to build sustainable economical development to counter poverty and violence, it has implemented a new family code that was hailed by most women rights groups worldwide as unique in the Muslim World, it has established the committee of equity and reconciliation to investigate and settle past cases of human rights violations. The Moroccan autonomy plan was backed by a majority in the US congress and praised by many European countries and was considered by the UN as a basis for a peaceful solution. Ms. Aminatou Haidar, who is hailed by her supporter as a human rights defender, is actively working with Algeria and the polisario to torpedo the current UN peace negotiations with Morocco. She is financed by Algeria’s billion dollars oil bonanza that is currently being mismanaged by the Algeria’s generals while Algerian citizens are mired in countless underdevelopment problems. Ms Aminatou Haidar is in fact working hard to keep the Sahrawi refugees, who are stranded in the Algerian desert camps, for another 34 years in the same conditions, while she and her fellow polisario cohorts, jet around the world and enjoy luxury VIP treatment. Given the current political situation between Morocco, Algeria and the polisario, Mrs. Aminatou Haider's behavor is an unacceptable provocation.So, her case is neither in hands of Morocco nor Spain but the Polisario's. Signed by Beniazza Mohammed The world must understand that Aminatou Haidar is being manipulated by the Algerian secret services and that her seeking support from foreign parties will not undermine Morocco’s will to go ahead in defending its sovereignty and territorial integrity .Ms.Aminatou Haidar,the separatist, went to a point of no return. She rejected her citizenship voluntarily . On November 13th.She listed “Sahrawi” as her nationality and “Western Sahara” as her country of origin even though she was traveling with a Moroccan passport. Mrs. Aminatou Haider has signed in the presence of her family members and of her own free will official documents renouncing her Moroccan nationality and citizenship. She has violated the law and claimed a nationality that is not recognized by both the U.N. and Morocco.
No surprise, then, as to why she was not allowed to enter the country. Mrs. Aminatou Haider, who holds a Spanish residency permit, departed Morocco and returned to the Canary Islands, Spain, where she has refused Spain’s refugee status offer and pretended that she is going on a hunger strike.
Ms. Aminatou Haidar, who claims to be a human rights activist, is actually working closely with the Western Sahara Separatist group, Polisario, and their backer, Algeria’s Military Regime. In Fact, She is currently working closely with Algeria’s Ambassador in Washington, Mr. Abdallah Baali , who is coordinating and funding her “human rights” lobbying activities in the US.
The goal of Ms. Aminatou Haidar, the Polisario and the Military regime in Algiera is the same. They want to neutralize Morocco’s Autonomy plan, a plan, that is considered by most major powers to be the basis for resolving the Sahara issue in a peaceful manner.
Algeria’s current lobbying through proxies such as Ms. Aminatou Haidar and others aims to keep the status Quo in the Sahara by advancing the independence as the only option.
In the minds of Algeria’s strategists, keeping Morocco mired in the current situation costs it substantial resources and mitigates any resistance that Morocco would pose to Algeria’s ambition to become a regional power in North Africa. Algeria’s long-term objective is to secure access to the Atlantic ocean through a client “state” such as a “Sahrawi Republic” in the disputed region.
Algeria and polisario’s plan for an independent state in southern Morocco is a non-starter. A state in southern morocco constitutes an existential threat to both Morocco and its leadership. Most independent analysts dismiss such an option because it would destabilize the entire North African Region, hasten a military conflict between the two protagonists, empower a new generation of terrorist groups(the kidnapping of three Spanish tourists in Mauritania) and unleash an unprecedented wave of refugees on European southern shores.
Algeria, which acts as a defender of self-determination, does not hesitate to violate the basic rights of its own people andthe Moroccan people held captive in Tindouf camps for three decades, refusing to let these populations exercise self-determination over their wish to leave the camps.
The Sahara issue is Algeria’s main concern, not to say obsession . Algeria,which depicts itself as “a neighboring country” to Morocco, offers a haven, trains and finances separatists who threaten peace and security in the region.
Instead of using its resources to solve its socio-economic problems of housing, health and water supply, this country finances polisario’s armament.
Algeria is not a mere observer country as it pretends but is actively involved in the Sahara issue since its outbreak.It conducts, on a daily basis, a hostile diplomatic campaign against Morocco.

Last November, the US secretary of State Hilary Clinton attended a forum on the future of the Middle East & North Africa, in Marrakech, Morocco where she reaffirmed the US longstanding policy that supports the autonomy plan for the Saharan provinces under Moroccan sovereignty as the only realistic solution to end the 34 years old conflict.
The Algerian press sharply criticized secretary Clinton’s statements in a wave of misogynistic criticism and the Western Sahara separatist group, Polisario, has accused US secretary of State Hilary Clinton of misstating the US policy on the Sahara conflict.
In 2006, Morocco has offered an autonomy plan for Western Sahara as a solution to end the conflict and provide a future for thousands of refugees, now, living in desperate conditions in Algeria’s desert camps.
In addition, Morocco has initiated major reforms to build sustainable economical development to counter poverty and violence, it has implemented a new family code that was hailed by most women rights groups worldwide as unique in the Muslim World, it has established the committee of equity and reconciliation to investigate and settle past cases of human rights violations.
The Moroccan autonomy plan was backed by a majority in the US congress and praised by many European countries and was considered by the UN as a basis for a peaceful solution.
Ms. Aminatou Haidar, who is hailed by her supporter as a human rights defender, is actively working with Algeria and the polisario to torpedo the current UN peace negotiations with Morocco. She is financed by Algeria’s billion dollars oil bonanza that is currently being mismanaged by the Algeria’s generals while Algerian citizens are mired in countless underdevelopment problems.
Ms Aminatou Haidar is in fact working hard to keep the Sahrawi refugees, who are stranded in the Algerian desert camps, for another 34 years in the same conditions, while she and her fellow polisario cohorts, jet around the world and enjoy luxury VIP treatment.
Given the current political situation between Morocco, Algeria and the polisario, Mrs. Aminatou Haider’s behavor is an unacceptable provocation.So, her case is neither in hands of Morocco nor Spain but the Polisario’s.

Signed by Beniazza Mohammed

]]> By: USgreenjeans http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/11/18/western-sahara-aminatou-haidar-deported/comment-page-3/#comment-1605081 USgreenjeans Fri, 11 Dec 2009 03:45:23 +0000 http://globalvoicesonline.org/?p=106923#comment-1605081 It is unfortunate this situation has escalated to the point whereby people of reason can not control it. Many who are conveying their opinions herein are ABSOLUTELY IGNORING International Law.As a Citizen of the US of Moroccan decent, anywhere I travel, my Nationality is conrolled by my PASSPORT, and in this case the US PASSPORT I CARRY TO CROSS borders. May it be in France, UK, Spain, Mrocco, Algeria, Saudi Arabia and many other Nations I had the priviledge to visit, I have to fill the "Arrival Forms" accordingly stating the I am a US Citizen based on the Passport I have in my possession. This rule has been agreed to by all United Nations Country Members. Then, how could Mrs. Haidar, upon her arrival on MOROCCAN SOIL refuses to declare HER NATIONALITY while she has in her POSSESSION a Moroccan Passport and Moroccan ID.? Well she declares she is a "Sahraoui Citizen"=fine. Such countrey does not EXIST. The Moroccan immigration Services can NOT accept her in this case as it would be if she landed in the US as an example. Because if she did and declared such, the US IMMIGRATION Services can not and will not let her in as such NATIONALITY is not regnozed by any Nation on this planet. The root cause to the entire situation is Algeria who is using these innocent people for their hegemonic gain to disrupt Morocco's internal systems. So, if all those of you, who are sitting confortably in your homes hiding behind your computers wish to reght about the situation, the I advise you to "STUDY" and its International Political ramifications before you ATTACK Morocco. The old sayiong goes: " it takes 2 to tangle". Why doesn't Algeria give the Lady a Passport, so she can go to Tindouf??? Otherwise the People of Almouradia palace and the Algerian Generals can find the solution. Morocco has done enough, so let it be, and I wish to convey to the Algerian Regime: " LET MY PEOPLE GO". THOSE HELD AGAINST THEIR WILL in the Tindouf have had enough and they wish to go back HOME. Let them go. It is unfortunate this situation has escalated to the point whereby people of reason can not control it.
Many who are conveying their opinions herein are ABSOLUTELY IGNORING International Law.As a Citizen of the US of Moroccan decent, anywhere I travel, my Nationality is conrolled by my PASSPORT, and in this case the US PASSPORT I CARRY TO CROSS borders. May it be in France, UK, Spain, Mrocco, Algeria, Saudi Arabia and many other Nations I had the priviledge to visit, I have to fill the “Arrival Forms” accordingly stating the I am a US Citizen based on the Passport I have in my possession. This rule has been agreed to by all United Nations Country Members. Then, how could Mrs. Haidar, upon her arrival on MOROCCAN SOIL refuses to declare HER NATIONALITY while she has in her POSSESSION a Moroccan Passport and Moroccan ID.?
Well she declares she is a “Sahraoui Citizen”=fine. Such countrey does not EXIST. The Moroccan immigration Services can NOT accept her in this case as it would be if she landed in the US as an example. Because if she did and declared such, the US IMMIGRATION Services can not and will not let her in as such NATIONALITY is not regnozed by any Nation on this planet.
The root cause to the entire situation is Algeria who is using these innocent people for their hegemonic gain to disrupt Morocco’s internal systems. So, if all those of you, who are sitting confortably in your homes hiding behind your computers wish to reght about the situation, the I advise you to “STUDY” and its International Political ramifications before you ATTACK Morocco. The old sayiong goes: ” it takes 2 to tangle”. Why doesn’t Algeria give the Lady a Passport, so she can go to Tindouf??? Otherwise the People of Almouradia palace and the Algerian Generals can find the solution. Morocco has done enough, so let it be, and I wish to convey to the Algerian Regime: ” LET MY PEOPLE GO”. THOSE HELD AGAINST THEIR WILL in the Tindouf have had enough and they wish to go back HOME. Let them go.

]]> By: hamid http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/11/18/western-sahara-aminatou-haidar-deported/comment-page-3/#comment-1604773 hamid Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:40:20 +0000 http://globalvoicesonline.org/?p=106923#comment-1604773 nice conversation about a woman who was born in Akka(is in north of Morocco) away from moroccan sahara first. why spanish don't give independance for basque ? why algeria doesn't give independance au kabylies who fighting since 1963 ? and also touerg sahraoui in south of algeria? and what about FIS (front islamique) who won election 1992 ? where is human right ? where is UN ? your game is finished nice conversation about a woman who was born in Akka(is in north of Morocco) away from moroccan sahara first.
why spanish don’t give independance for basque ?
why algeria doesn’t give independance au kabylies who fighting since 1963 ? and also touerg sahraoui in south of algeria?
and what about FIS (front islamique) who won election 1992 ?
where is human right ?
where is UN ?
your game is finished

]]> By: Hicham http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/11/18/western-sahara-aminatou-haidar-deported/comment-page-3/#comment-1604737 Hicham Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:39:48 +0000 http://globalvoicesonline.org/?p=106923#comment-1604737 As clever and twisted as this woman traitor is,when she renounced to her citizenship, did not she realise she was selling her kids and people cheap for an Algerian agenda? what's the hell she is striking for now?!! As clever and twisted as this woman traitor is,when she renounced to her citizenship, did not she realise she was selling her kids and people cheap for an Algerian agenda? what’s the hell she is striking for now?!!

]]> By: Obori http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/11/18/western-sahara-aminatou-haidar-deported/comment-page-3/#comment-1604276 Obori Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:17:10 +0000 http://globalvoicesonline.org/?p=106923#comment-1604276 First I do admire the will of this brave lady but the writer has shown that Morocco is to blame. The conflict in Western Sahara is way more complicated. Aminatou Haidar is politically manipulated woman that is being used by Polisario and Algeria against Morocco. This lady was born in Morocco not in Western Sahara to a Moroccan father that happens to belong to a tribe in the south as thousands of Moroccans do. She was mistreated and thrown in jail as lot of activists in Morocco in the Seventies and Eighties but she was re compensated by the government. She doesn't want to be a Moroccan any longer. Western Sahara has never been a country and Algeria is the only Arab state that does not want it to be Moroccan. Western Saharans are Arabs / Berbers and Muslims just as the Moroccans in the north are. I can not see how Morocco will accept to loose it. It will be another Somalia or Afghanistan. If it is proven that Ms Haidar is supported by Algeria, I don't see why Morocco should let her in. There is an undeclared war between the two rivals. First I do admire the will of this brave lady but the writer has shown that Morocco is to blame. The conflict in Western Sahara is way more complicated. Aminatou Haidar is politically manipulated woman that is being used by Polisario and Algeria against Morocco. This lady was born in Morocco not in Western Sahara to a Moroccan father that happens to belong to a tribe in the south as thousands of Moroccans do. She was mistreated and thrown in jail as lot of activists in Morocco in the Seventies and Eighties but she was re compensated by the government. She doesn’t want to be a Moroccan any longer. Western Sahara has never been a country and Algeria is the only Arab state that does not want it to be Moroccan. Western Saharans are Arabs / Berbers and Muslims just as the Moroccans in the north are. I can not see how Morocco will accept to loose it. It will be another Somalia or Afghanistan. If it is proven that Ms Haidar is supported by Algeria, I don’t see why Morocco should let her in. There is an undeclared war between the two rivals.

]]> By: Solana Larsen http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/11/18/western-sahara-aminatou-haidar-deported/comment-page-2/#comment-1603409 Solana Larsen Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:59:48 +0000 http://globalvoicesonline.org/?p=106923#comment-1603409 This reminds me of a different story. In Puerto Rico (a territory of the United States won from Spain in the Spanish-American war) the pro-independence leader and lawyer Juan Mari Bras flew to Venezuela, renounced his U.S. citizenship, and flew back to Puerto Rico in order to demonstrate (as a legal argument) that there was such a thing as an enduring Puerto Rican nationhood/citizenship. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statelessness#Juan_Mari_Bras This reminds me of a different story.

In Puerto Rico (a territory of the United States won from Spain in the Spanish-American war) the pro-independence leader and lawyer Juan Mari Bras flew to Venezuela, renounced his U.S. citizenship, and flew back to Puerto Rico in order to demonstrate (as a legal argument) that there was such a thing as an enduring Puerto Rican nationhood/citizenship.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statelessness#Juan_Mari_Bras

]]> By: Hisham http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/11/18/western-sahara-aminatou-haidar-deported/comment-page-2/#comment-1603399 Hisham Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:42:26 +0000 http://globalvoicesonline.org/?p=106923#comment-1603399 This is a sad story really. I'm a Moroccan and I can tell you that the government propaganda in Morocco has made it virtually impossible to have a reasonable discussion on this matter with fellow countrymen. There is a consensus throughout the political spectrum to deny the very existence of a separatist movement in Western Sahara. That has untightened the hands of a repressive authority. Activists are being unlawfully arrested and tortured. As much as I support a large autonomy for the territory under a federal, democratic Moroccan sovereignty, I believe Saharawees have the right to decide for themselves. Ms. Aminatou Haidar should have the right to express herself freely and should definitely not have been prevented from returning home. I hope this tragedy will end well. This is a sad story really. I’m a Moroccan and I can tell you that the government propaganda in Morocco has made it virtually impossible to have a reasonable discussion on this matter with fellow countrymen. There is a consensus throughout the political spectrum to deny the very existence of a separatist movement in Western Sahara. That has untightened the hands of a repressive authority. Activists are being unlawfully arrested and tortured. As much as I support a large autonomy for the territory under a federal, democratic Moroccan sovereignty, I believe Saharawees have the right to decide for themselves. Ms. Aminatou Haidar should have the right to express herself freely and should definitely not have been prevented from returning home.
I hope this tragedy will end well.

]]> By: Ahmed Salem Amr Khaddad http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/11/18/western-sahara-aminatou-haidar-deported/comment-page-2/#comment-1603396 Ahmed Salem Amr Khaddad Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:22:14 +0000 http://globalvoicesonline.org/?p=106923#comment-1603396 The Moroccan authorities asked Aminatou to go to the Moroccan consulat to get her moroccan passport BUT she refused! Minister Moratinos said that Aminatou is not well adviced by her supporting group. I believe he is right. The Moroccan authorities asked Aminatou to go to the Moroccan consulat to get her moroccan passport BUT she refused! Minister Moratinos said that Aminatou is not well adviced by her supporting group. I believe he is right.

]]> By: Bernardo Parrella http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/11/18/western-sahara-aminatou-haidar-deported/comment-page-2/#comment-1603369 Bernardo Parrella Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:24:27 +0000 http://globalvoicesonline.org/?p=106923#comment-1603369 Today an <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2009/12/1/in_third_week_of_hunger_strike" rel="nofollow">update and discussion on "Democracy Now!"</a>: In Third Week of Hunger Strike, Ailing Western Saharan Human Rights Activist Aminatou Haidar Demands Moroccan Authorities Allow Her Return to Occupied Homeland Today an update and discussion on “Democracy Now!”:

In Third Week of Hunger Strike, Ailing Western Saharan Human Rights Activist Aminatou Haidar Demands Moroccan Authorities Allow Her Return to Occupied Homeland

]]> By: Ahmed Salem Amr Khaddad http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/11/18/western-sahara-aminatou-haidar-deported/comment-page-2/#comment-1603201 Ahmed Salem Amr Khaddad Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:21:40 +0000 http://globalvoicesonline.org/?p=106923#comment-1603201 The inhabitants of the north of Morocco had exactly the same papers as those in the south (Western Sahara region). There were customs in the area of Ksar Al Kabir to cross the line to the french protectorate same as in Sidi Ifni and the area of Tarfaya. There were customs to/from the French protectorate in the center and the Spanish protectorate in the south of Morocco (Western Sahara region). In 1956, Morocco recovered the areas under the French protectorate in one shot while Morocco recovered the areas under the Spanish protectorate from 1956 till 1975. Regarding Aminatou Haidar, I believe there are many other western sahraouis who merit to be on the top. There are many western sahraouis who are participating to the development of the Western Sahara region. While focusing on few separatists without any local influence? How do you explain the fact that there were no solidarity demonstration to Aminatou in the Western Sahara region? Western sahraouis simply don't care to her personal fight. They know her. They know her past and her present and they know she is desserving foreign interests in the region. The inhabitants of the north of Morocco had exactly the same papers as those in the south (Western Sahara region). There were customs in the area of Ksar Al Kabir to cross the line to the french protectorate same as in Sidi Ifni and the area of Tarfaya. There were customs to/from the French protectorate in the center and the Spanish protectorate in the south of Morocco (Western Sahara region). In 1956, Morocco recovered the areas under the French protectorate in one shot while Morocco recovered the areas under the Spanish protectorate from 1956 till 1975.

Regarding Aminatou Haidar, I believe there are many other western sahraouis who merit to be on the top. There are many western sahraouis who are participating to the development of the Western Sahara region. While focusing on few separatists without any local influence? How do you explain the fact that there were no solidarity demonstration to Aminatou in the Western Sahara region? Western sahraouis simply don’t care to her personal fight. They know her. They know her past and her present and they know she is desserving foreign interests in the region.

]]> By: Delfín Quintana http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/11/18/western-sahara-aminatou-haidar-deported/comment-page-2/#comment-1603096 Delfín Quintana Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:26:30 +0000 http://globalvoicesonline.org/?p=106923#comment-1603096 The inhabitants of Western Sahara before the sale to Morocco and Mauritania had Spanish Identification Papers (written in Spanish and Arabic) and had Saharauis Diputies in the Spanish Parlaments during the Franco Regime. The legal convertion of the colony in a Spanish province was promoted by the Spanish Prime Minister Carrero Blanco in 1958 in order to avoid the process of descolonization requested by the UNO. With the Canary Islands, Spain use the same method saying that we are “an autonomy region”. In 1961 issued the law “the basis on which should be based the juridic ordenance of the Province of the Sahara so that equalized to the rest of the spanish territory”. This law never was cancelled. The Madrid treatment of 1975 which sale the Sahara to Morocco and Mauritania scarcelly cover a paper in DIN4. Honour to Aminatou Haidar The inhabitants of Western Sahara before the sale to Morocco and Mauritania had Spanish Identification Papers (written in Spanish and Arabic) and had Saharauis Diputies in the Spanish Parlaments during the Franco Regime. The legal convertion of the colony in a Spanish province was promoted by the Spanish Prime Minister Carrero Blanco in 1958 in order to avoid the process of descolonization requested by the UNO. With the Canary Islands, Spain use the same method saying that we are “an autonomy region”. In 1961 issued the law “the basis on which should be based the juridic ordenance of the Province of the Sahara so that equalized to the rest of the spanish territory”. This law never was cancelled. The Madrid treatment of 1975 which sale the Sahara to Morocco and Mauritania scarcelly cover a paper in DIN4. Honour to Aminatou Haidar

]]> By: Ahmed Salem Amr Khaddad http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/11/18/western-sahara-aminatou-haidar-deported/comment-page-2/#comment-1602828 Ahmed Salem Amr Khaddad Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:21:56 +0000 http://globalvoicesonline.org/?p=106923#comment-1602828 Well, Western Sahara has never been a country or a colony. During the colonization phase of Morocco (1912 to 1975), Spain considered the Western Sahara region as a protectorate among the kingdom of Morocco. Please read the decolonization process of Morocco here : http://www.sahara-online.net/eng/SaharaHistory/Decolonisation/tabid/713/Default.aspx Well, Western Sahara has never been a country or a colony. During the colonization phase of Morocco (1912 to 1975), Spain considered the Western Sahara region as a protectorate among the kingdom of Morocco. Please read the decolonization process of Morocco here :
http://www.sahara-online.net/eng/SaharaHistory/Decolonisation/tabid/713/Default.aspx

]]> By: Pat Farrelly http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/11/18/western-sahara-aminatou-haidar-deported/comment-page-2/#comment-1602808 Pat Farrelly Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:28:52 +0000 http://globalvoicesonline.org/?p=106923#comment-1602808 As an Irishman whos country has struggled for independance from british occupation over many centuries. I would like to empathise with Aminatou's effords to highlight the injustice that has been inflicted on her Country As an Irishman whos country has struggled for independance from british occupation over many centuries. I would like to empathise with Aminatou’s effords to highlight the injustice that has been inflicted on her Country

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