Western Sahara: The whole country – Workers of Cuba

The Saharawi people, who inscribed on the banners of the struggle for national liberation slogan entire country or martyrdom, has been unable to fulfill the right to its rightful territory and its independence and sovereignty, ideals for which so much blood has been spilled.

the proclamation of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) for their national hero, El-Ouali Mustapha Sayed, the February 27, 1976, when the last soldier of colonial Spain left the territories of Western Sahara, a milestone the historical epic effort, but failed to end the shameful system that had its continuity in the Moroccan monarchy.

the Western Sahara, with an area of ​​284,000 square kilometers, is an area of ​​north Africa located at the western end of the Sahara desert, along the Atlantic ocean. It is one of the 17 Territories under supervision, since 1960, the Special Committee on Decolonization of the United Nations, through Resolution 1542 of the General Assembly document to end colonialism, but has ineffective in more than four decades.

the Madrid Accords, signed in 1975 by the governments of Spain, Morocco and Mauritania, invalid under international law, continued the sacrifices of the Saharawi people, and reaffirmed its determination to liberate their nation from foreign occupier.

in Spanish colony, the Western Sahara became a colony of Morocco, with hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians invaded in December 1975, the territory occupied by its oldest and genuine inhabitants. Saharawis called children of the clouds

for 16 years, challenging the Moroccan military power, fighters of the Front for the Liberation of Saguia El Hamra and Rio de Oro (Polisario) held a heroic war against the invader that ended on 6 September 1991 with a ceasefire approved by the warring parties. The peace program was sponsored by the United Nations and established the immediate holding of a referendum of self-determination of the Saharawi people, which have mocked the rulers of Rabat.

The work of the United Nations Mission for implementation of the referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) it has been permanently blocked by the intransigence of the Alawite monarchy in the negotiations, which aims to prevent the Saharawi people to exercise the right to democratically decide their fate.

for full SADR -member of the African Union which is recognized in more than 80 states and solidarity of many other peoples in the world the progress made over the past 40 years has been arduous, painful and difficult, characterized by the inability of the UN to enforce its own resolutions, the bloody years of war, thousands of people detained, disappeared, murder, torture, summary trials and other human rights violations perpetrated by the Moroccan army and police in occupied areas, and provocative visits to the territory of king Mohamed VI.

the occupied Saharawi regions are isolated by the so-called Wall of Shame, a set of eight walls of a length greater than 2000 720 km2, built by Morocco in Western Sahara, including the valuable phosphate deposits of Bou Craa, the largest in the world, iron mines, coasts with abundant fishing and likely to contain oil deposits.

there is there a military zone with bunkers, radars, fences and minefields, defended by more than 100,000 Moroccan soldiers.

Even in these difficult and dangerous conditions and to maintain part of its population in camps refugees SADR shows remarkable progress in politics, education, health, sports, social security and technical and vocational training of his youth.

his heroic anti-colonial struggle confirms the maxim that Africa will not be free of all until I is the homeland of the Saharawi people.