Sahrawi activist Bachri assures that the Sahrawi people are outraged, if not surprised, at the “deplorable” turn of the Spanish government. He criticizes Morocco’s proposal as “false autonomy”, and denounces that it is unfeasible to live in a regime that systematically violates their rights.
The Sahrawi people live with outrage and deep rejection, though unsurprisingly, at the turn the Spanish government has taken in its stance on Western Sahara.
This was stated by the Saharawi activist Mahfud Bachric, interviewed on Radio Euskadi’s Boulevard. Bacrhi assured Tindouf that “Sánchez dared to do what no president would have dared to do in a democracy.” He pointed out that relations between Spain and Morocco have always been good, “at the expense of the Sahrawi people and their legitimate right to self-determination and independence”, but calls it shameful that Sánchez has taken “one more step”.
Bachri assures that “autonomy cannot be granted by Morocco for a territory that does not historically belong to it Western Sahara does not belong to Morocco, they are separate and distinct territories and this is, for example, what the European jurisdiction says, which has ruled on several occasions that Western Sahara is not a Moroccan territory,” he said.
According to Barchri, the status of Western Sahara” continues untouchable, for to the United Nations it remains a non-autonomous territory pending decolonization and no one can grant Morocco a non-existent sovereignty over our country.”
When asked about the worst of the autonomous proposal, Bacrhi replied that this is the case for the Saharawi people “unachievable” to live in a regime that systematically violates their rights He assures that in 45 years since the occupation, everything that the Sahrawi people have received from Morocco is bad, “everything is torture, ill-treatment, sieges and the looting of natural resources”, so nothing makes them think they can change that now. . “This autonomy plan has little credibility for us”.
The activist is confident that the Sahrawi people will gain their rights sooner or later. “It has been almost 50 years since we resisted the various conditions, the precarious condition of the camps and the military aggressiveness in the occupied territories, but we hope that after all this, the day will come when we can vote democratically in a referendum sponsored by the United Nations”.
He stressed that despite the stance of the government of Spain, the Spanish people have for the most part shown solidarity with the Sahrawi people and “this has been seen in the Congress of Deputies when Pedro Sánchez was left alone more than when he left political parties of all colors and all ideologies have positioned themselves against this unfortunate reversal by Sánchez and his minister”.
Source: EITB
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