Siete mil jaimas contra Marruecos
EL PAÍS entra en el núcleo de la protesta saharaui, cerca de El Aaiún, donde 20.000 personas piden desde hace tres semanas unas condiciones de vida dignas
IGNACIO CEMBRERO - Campamento de Agdaym Izik - 01/11/2010
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Seven thousand tents from MoroccoCOUNTRY enters the nucleus of the Saharawi protests near Laayoune, where 20,000 people for three weeks asking about living conditions
Ignacio Cembrero - Izik Agdaym Camp - 01/11/2010
"It's the Saharawi police." With a voice that denotes a conductor proudly announces that we have come to control access to the camp of nearly 7,000 tents (tents of the nomads) that the Saharawi began lifting more than three weeks at the gates of Laayoune, the capital of the former Spanish colony.
"It's the Saharawi police." With a voice that denotes a conductor proudly announces that we have come to control access to the camp of nearly 7,000 tents (tents of the nomads) that the Saharawi began lifting more than three weeks at the gates of Laayoune, the capital of the former Spanish colony.
Youths with reflective vests surface with flashlights inspecting the vehicle before the door through which Izik Agdaym crowd 20,000 people surrounded by a small five-foot wall built in a few days by the Moroccan Army. Focus behind hundreds, perhaps thousands, of gendarmes and soldiers whose presence is felt at a glance.
Reach the camp, 15 miles east of El Aaiun, it is not easy for non-Sahrawi, let alone foreign journalists. In the first of the three roadblocks Moroccan police require authorization from the Ministry of Communication that it never provided.
Dressed in the draa or malfa (costumes Saharawi people, the first, and women), with darkened skin with a brush mix of sun block and ash, or simply hidden within the large SUV behind a woman's humanity obese, have made a few correspondents, however, sneak into the heart of the Saharan-largest protest by the number of participants and duration, since Spain withdrew in 1975 from the colony.
Izik Agdaym is primarily in the evening, organization and order. Youth patrol security officers walk the areas that have been assigned, an SUV collects garbage bags placed in the intersections of the dusty roads, a nurse attends to patients waiting in line at the makeshift clinic, while others keep their Time to fill water containers brought in by tanker.
"Water is scarce, we long queues, uncomfortable, but we're happy," he says smiling Mustafa, a boy, while making the vee of victory, a gesture repeated many inhabitants of the camp to cross with the visitors. In addition to journalists, a handful of foreign activists visit Agdaym Izik and broadcast their images abroad. Antonio Velasquez, a Mexican musician, has become the de facto spokesman for the international press.
Yesterday tried to join them, in vain, eight Canaria Spanish Platform Support to the Saharawi people, but were waiting at the port of Laayoune about 200 Moroccans who threw sticks and I was discouraged from landing. After the ship went a dozen police officers who identified the canaries and prohibited them down. The episode I remember something happened in late August when 11 canaries were beaten by, they said, plainclothes police officers after agitate for the independence of the Sahara.
The precariousness of the ocean of tents, lack of health infrastructure Izik Agdaym remember what they were, in the late seventies, early Polisario camps in Tindouf in southwest Algeria. "That was an exile, an exodus that is within our own land," notes a university in Western Sahara.
The weekend camp is a hotbed. The Sahrawi are Moroccan government officials meet with their families settled here. On the road to Samara, on the outskirts of Laayoune, the most humble, who do not have a car, hitchhike, their bread under the arm and water containers, waiting for someone to move here.
Izik Agdaym is governed by a coordinating committee of nine people, eight men and one woman, all under 40 years. Most were unemployed. So far they had not known for his political activism against the "discrimination" social suffering, they say, the Saharawi, nor in favor of independence.
How do people with little experience are able to manage this small town abruptly improvised and negotiate their demands with the Moroccan Ministry of Interior? "Here we are alone among us Sahrawi" answers Kmacho Fadel, one of three coordinating committee members interviewed by this reporter over the weekend. "We breathe an air of freedom that no outside," he adds. "That gives us strength."
Kmacho and the other had, however, 18 months preparing for this protest quietly shifting, according to other sources, although their success has overflowed. If other cities like Samara Boujdour or similar movements have sprung up is because "the police has prevented us," laments Omar. "But we have received other support," adds to comfort.
So, until Izik Agdaym have moved many Saharawi living in Spain and Europe as Amin, who acts as an interpreter for the committee. "I worked with all the papers in order, in the kitchen of a restaurant in the south of Gran Canaria, but this left the position because I could not lose," he says.
Almost every day they receive new support. Workers at the company fosfatera Foos Boukraa landed on Wednesday. Along with the campers chanted at a rally: "The resources of the Sahara to the Sahrawi" in an allusion to phosphates and fisheries. On Thursday stormed a delegation of Sidi Ifni, the belligerent city of southern Morocco. The Saharawi were paraded by a human corridor as guests shouted: "Sahrawi, Sahrawi, together with us hand in hand towards freedom." Do not go further. Nobody asks openly self-determination or independence."Fences do not negotiate"
Charkaoui Taieb, the Minister of Interior, is one of the most powerful men in Morocco, with powers much greater than their European counterparts. No one would give a sit, except the committee that coordinates the Saharawi protest camp Izik Agdaym near Laayoune.
Charkaoui arrived Thursday in El Aaiun, met with the Saharawi notables, and on Saturday, he cited the committee that runs the camp. "We decline the invitation until they cease provocations and lift the siege and military police who are suffering," said Omar Zribi, acting as spokesman for the committee. "Otherwise there will be no negotiation." And reiterates: "Fences do not negotiate."
The latest "provocation" was, according to him, the soldiers taking pictures of the Saharawi women urinating outdoors. The "fence" also allows Rabat "the nuts" for hours and ban the entry of food or water in the camp, while preventing access to the international press.
The committee did meet several times throughout the week with a committee of three senior officials of the Interior, sent from Rabat, "but his goal was not to negotiate, but to inquire about us," laments the spokesman said. "They ask us to dismantle the tents, go home and then meet our demands." The 20,000 people who camped in Agdaym Izik for three weeks demanding housing, jobs and the end of "looting" that supposedly makes Rabat of the riches of the Sahara.
"Our greatest aspiration is to respect our dignity," together several Sahrawi stress around the spokesperson. "We do not support the oppressive and most safety standards to which we are subjected, without comparison to any region of Morocco.
http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internacional/mil/jaimas/Marruecos/elpepuint/20101101elpepiint_3/Tes
Seven thousand tents from MoroccoCOUNTRY enters the nucleus of the Saharawi protests near Laayoune, where 20,000 people for three weeks asking about living conditions
Ignacio Cembrero - Izik Agdaym Camp - 01/11/2010
"It's the Saharawi police." With a voice that denotes a conductor proudly announces that we have come to control access to the camp of nearly 7,000 tents (tents of the nomads) that the Saharawi began lifting more than three weeks at the gates of Laayoune, the capital of the former Spanish colony.
"It's the Saharawi police." With a voice that denotes a conductor proudly announces that we have come to control access to the camp of nearly 7,000 tents (tents of the nomads) that the Saharawi began lifting more than three weeks at the gates of Laayoune, the capital of the former Spanish colony.
Youths with reflective vests surface with flashlights inspecting the vehicle before the door through which Izik Agdaym crowd 20,000 people surrounded by a small five-foot wall built in a few days by the Moroccan Army. Focus behind hundreds, perhaps thousands, of gendarmes and soldiers whose presence is felt at a glance.
Reach the camp, 15 miles east of El Aaiun, it is not easy for non-Sahrawi, let alone foreign journalists. In the first of the three roadblocks Moroccan police require authorization from the Ministry of Communication that it never provided.
Dressed in the draa or malfa (costumes Saharawi people, the first, and women), with darkened skin with a brush mix of sun block and ash, or simply hidden within the large SUV behind a woman's humanity obese, have made a few correspondents, however, sneak into the heart of the Saharan-largest protest by the number of participants and duration, since Spain withdrew in 1975 from the colony.
Izik Agdaym is primarily in the evening, organization and order. Youth patrol security officers walk the areas that have been assigned, an SUV collects garbage bags placed in the intersections of the dusty roads, a nurse attends to patients waiting in line at the makeshift clinic, while others keep their Time to fill water containers brought in by tanker.
"Water is scarce, we long queues, uncomfortable, but we're happy," he says smiling Mustafa, a boy, while making the vee of victory, a gesture repeated many inhabitants of the camp to cross with the visitors. In addition to journalists, a handful of foreign activists visit Agdaym Izik and broadcast their images abroad. Antonio Velasquez, a Mexican musician, has become the de facto spokesman for the international press.
Yesterday tried to join them, in vain, eight Canaria Spanish Platform Support to the Saharawi people, but were waiting at the port of Laayoune about 200 Moroccans who threw sticks and I was discouraged from landing. After the ship went a dozen police officers who identified the canaries and prohibited them down. The episode I remember something happened in late August when 11 canaries were beaten by, they said, plainclothes police officers after agitate for the independence of the Sahara.
The precariousness of the ocean of tents, lack of health infrastructure Izik Agdaym remember what they were, in the late seventies, early Polisario camps in Tindouf in southwest Algeria. "That was an exile, an exodus that is within our own land," notes a university in Western Sahara.
The weekend camp is a hotbed. The Sahrawi are Moroccan government officials meet with their families settled here. On the road to Samara, on the outskirts of Laayoune, the most humble, who do not have a car, hitchhike, their bread under the arm and water containers, waiting for someone to move here.
Izik Agdaym is governed by a coordinating committee of nine people, eight men and one woman, all under 40 years. Most were unemployed. So far they had not known for his political activism against the "discrimination" social suffering, they say, the Saharawi, nor in favor of independence.
How do people with little experience are able to manage this small town abruptly improvised and negotiate their demands with the Moroccan Ministry of Interior? "Here we are alone among us Sahrawi" answers Kmacho Fadel, one of three coordinating committee members interviewed by this reporter over the weekend. "We breathe an air of freedom that no outside," he adds. "That gives us strength."
Kmacho and the other had, however, 18 months preparing for this protest quietly shifting, according to other sources, although their success has overflowed. If other cities like Samara Boujdour or similar movements have sprung up is because "the police has prevented us," laments Omar. "But we have received other support," adds to comfort.
So, until Izik Agdaym have moved many Saharawi living in Spain and Europe as Amin, who acts as an interpreter for the committee. "I worked with all the papers in order, in the kitchen of a restaurant in the south of Gran Canaria, but this left the position because I could not lose," he says.
Almost every day they receive new support. Workers at the company fosfatera Foos Boukraa landed on Wednesday. Along with the campers chanted at a rally: "The resources of the Sahara to the Sahrawi" in an allusion to phosphates and fisheries. On Thursday stormed a delegation of Sidi Ifni, the belligerent city of southern Morocco. The Saharawi were paraded by a human corridor as guests shouted: "Sahrawi, Sahrawi, together with us hand in hand towards freedom." Do not go further. Nobody asks openly self-determination or independence."Fences do not negotiate"
Charkaoui Taieb, the Minister of Interior, is one of the most powerful men in Morocco, with powers much greater than their European counterparts. No one would give a sit, except the committee that coordinates the Saharawi protest camp Izik Agdaym near Laayoune.
Charkaoui arrived Thursday in El Aaiun, met with the Saharawi notables, and on Saturday, he cited the committee that runs the camp. "We decline the invitation until they cease provocations and lift the siege and military police who are suffering," said Omar Zribi, acting as spokesman for the committee. "Otherwise there will be no negotiation." And reiterates: "Fences do not negotiate."
The latest "provocation" was, according to him, the soldiers taking pictures of the Saharawi women urinating outdoors. The "fence" also allows Rabat "the nuts" for hours and ban the entry of food or water in the camp, while preventing access to the international press.
The committee did meet several times throughout the week with a committee of three senior officials of the Interior, sent from Rabat, "but his goal was not to negotiate, but to inquire about us," laments the spokesman said. "They ask us to dismantle the tents, go home and then meet our demands." The 20,000 people who camped in Agdaym Izik for three weeks demanding housing, jobs and the end of "looting" that supposedly makes Rabat of the riches of the Sahara.
"Our greatest aspiration is to respect our dignity," together several Sahrawi stress around the spokesperson. "We do not support the oppressive and most safety standards to which we are subjected, without comparison to any region of Morocco.
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