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2020-11-15 Africa North
'The war has begun' - Polisario Front launches attacks on Moroccan military bases
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The Polisario Front News Agency said, "The Sahrawi People’s Liberation Army launched intense attacks on Moroccan army bases in the Al Mahbas, Hawza, Awsard and Al Farisiyah sectors, resulting in casualties."

The Polisario agency said, "The political governorate of the Sahrawi People’s Liberation Army confirmed in a statement that several enemy sites have been attacked by our brave fighters along the Moroccan wall of shame," noting that this comes in response to "the Moroccan army’s desperate adventure embodied in it." A clear violation of the ceasefire agreement signed between the two parties to the conflict in the Guerguerat region.

The statement added , "As a result of this treacherous operation, the Lions of the Sahrawi People’s Liberation Army responded fiercely to the advancement of the hostile formation, and were able to secure and protect the movement of Sahrawi civil society groups that were in the same place."

For his part, the Minister of Information of the Polisario Front, Hamada Salma, confirmed that the Moroccan recklessness in the Guerguerat region has returned the region to square one, stressing that the Sahrawi people are determined to extract their right to self-determination at all costs.

Hamada Salma said in his statements that "the Sahrawi people have lost their confidence in the ability of the United Nations
...a formerly good idea gone bad...
to do justice to them and to establish their inalienable right to organize a free and fair referendum, to determine self-determination and end the last occupation on the African continent, according to what international legitimacy stipulates."

He added, "The war imposed on us by the Moroccan occupation has begun, and things will not return to what they were without being deterred by the Moroccan regime, which is responsible throughout this period for obstructing a peaceful solution in the region."

On Friday, Morocco announced that it had launched a military operation in the buffer zone in Guerguerat in Western Sahara, which is disputed with the Polisario Front, while the Polisario Front responded, considering that the operation ended the ceasefire between the two sides in effect for 30 years, and that "the war began."
Posted by Fred 2020-11-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10 views ]  Top

#1 AGAIN?
How many times has this been relaunched over the past 50 years?
Posted by 3dc 2020-11-15 01:56||   2020-11-15 01:56|| Front Page Top

#2 The Polisario Front, Frente Polisario, from the Spanish abbreviation of Frente Popular de Liberación de Saguía el Hamra y Río de Oro, is a Sahrawi rebel national liberation movement aiming to end Moroccan presence in the Western Sahara. Founded: May 10, 1973, at Zouérat, Mauritania. Sahrawi culture is a mix of Berber, Black African and Arab elements. Said to total less than 250,000 souls in Morocco, and 25,000 refugees in Mauritania.
Posted by b 2020-11-15 08:42||   2020-11-15 08:42|| Front Page Top

#3 

From Wikipedia:

Youth wing Sahrawi Youth Union
Women's wing National Union of Sahrawi Women
Trade union affiliation Sahrawi Trade Union
Ideology Sahrawi nationalism
Social democracy
Historical:
Democratic socialism
Political position Centre-left
International affiliation Progressive Alliance
Socialist International
Posted by trailing wife 2020-11-15 09:02||   2020-11-15 09:02|| Front Page Top

#4 So yet another Communist liberation movement that ceased about the time the Soviet Union fell. What has them feeling their oats a generation later?
Posted by trailing wife 2020-11-15 12:13||   2020-11-15 12:13|| Front Page Top

#5 Hey, somebody tell Mitt Romney the 1990's called. No, they didn't leave a message.

What has them feeling their oats a generation later?

A most interesting question!

Maybe it is some sort of cosplay fad amongst the youth. I mean, "Lions of the Sahrawi People’s Liberation Army"? Come on, tell me that's not made up silliness.
Posted by SteveS 2020-11-15 12:33||   2020-11-15 12:33|| Front Page Top

#6 #1 AGAIN?
How many times has this been relaunched over the past 50 years?
Posted by: 3dc 2020-11-15 01:56


...I was gonna say, did it ever actually end?

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2020-11-15 12:48||   2020-11-15 12:48|| Front Page Top

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