THE WALL IS THE MOROCCAN VERSION OF APARTHEID
During the 3rd University Conferences on Sahrawi Culture held in Murcia, Spain, Mr. Gaici Nah, member of the coordinating team of the International Campaign against the Wall of the Moroccan Occupation in Western Sahara, gave a talk at the University of Murcia on 28 October entitled “the Wall: the Moroccan version of Apartheid.” The speaker explained the stages of the construction of the wall that Morocco built in the eighties to counter the Sahrawi army, which is 2700 km long. The wall, which is the second longest wall in the world after the Great Wall of China, continues to divide the Sahrawi people and their Territory. According to the speaker, the Moroccan regime “cloned” the idea of the wall based on other experiences, which were doomed to failure. He also explained that, both in the refugee camps and the occupied territories and the liberated territories, Sahrawis live traumatised by the persistence of the wall, because in addition to killing and injuring innocent peopl