Western Sahara
Life of a West Sahara Citizen
War of West Sahara
The battle between Morocco and the Sahrawi natives is an ongoing conflict since 1975. Even Decades later, still thousands of Saharawi citizens are still living in a state of Obstruction and tragic human rights abuses.
For many years there’s been a long and challenging dispute, a conflict among Sahrawi native Polisario, as they fight for their independence between Spain and Morocco, called The Western Sahara War. During the times between 1975 and 1991 when Spain detached itself, immediately it caused and erupted a bigger, more significant conflict between polisario’s and the Moroccans. Shortly, Morocco's government wanted to establish awareness and presence by arranging a March of almost 350,000 Moroccan citizens, to take over the territory. Polisario eagerly demonstrated their fight for independence, as they successively fought both Mauritania and Morocco. Soon after, Mauritania withdrew from the conflict after signing a peace treaty with the polisario. The war continued throughout the 1980s, as Morocco made several attempts to take over. The conflict is yet to form a peace process and has not endeavored to resolve a solution between Morocco and the Sahrawi Republic. Today, Western Sahara territory is mostly controlled by Morocco, while only the inland parts, it is ruled by the Sahrawi Democratic Republic.
Many native Sahrawi people have fled to Algeria due to war, famine and oppression, where thousands people live in refugee camps in isolated parts of the desert, and forced into detention. Over the period of many years, many sahrawi people are stuck in poverty, and placed in involuntary bad living conditions, which offer little protection from frequent sand storms and scorching summer temperatures. But most importantly their freedom has been taken away from them.