The Moroccan poet and writer Abdellatif Laâbi has stressed the need to find a fair solution to the Moroccan Sahara issue to secure success to the democratic project in the north African kingdom.
At a conference in Las Palmas as part of the "Dialog with America, Dialog with Africa: a culture of meetings" round, Laâbi insisted on putting an end to the suffering of Sahrawis and called on opening dialog to settle in "a fair, equitable and democratic" way the conflict.
Thousands of Sahrawis were herded away from their territory in the mid seventies to the camps of Tindouf, south-west Algeria, by the "Polisario" movement that has been claiming the separation of the Moroccan southern provinces, known as the Sahara.
The Algeria-backed "Polisario" has been detaining against their will these populations and inflicting them mistreatment in the camps. Numerous Sahrawis have either defected the ranks of the movement or simply fled the torture camps to return to the motherland Morocco.
The dialogs round is sponsored by the Canary government to bring together cultural, political and social science personalities to discuss issues on the American and African continents.
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To put "an end to the suffering of Sahrawis and ... to settle in "a fair, equitable and democratic" way the conflict, I have an idea . Why doesn't Morocco have a referendum under UN and international supervision to choose between independence and inclusion in Morocco. Now why hasn't anyone thought of that?
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