La historia paralela

A Story that for many is not known the situa­tion of a few in the under­de­ve­lo­ped world In 1976 repre­sents cons­ti­tu­ted the Arab Repu­blic Demo­cra­tic Saha­raui, with the deter­mi­na­tion of the Poli­sa­rio Front in an iso­la­ted place of the Sahara.

So as to unders­tand about the sub­ject we are making refe­rence we must make a brief synt­he­sis When Spain arri­ved at the coast of the Sahara was pro­tect the flank with the Canary Islands, then Spain colo­ni­zed a part of the territory

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Years later Franco, the decea­sed ex– Spa­nish pre­si­dent, deci­ded the reti­re­ment of his troops of the Wes­tern Sahara wit­hout exactly ful­fi­lling the gui­de­li­nes fixed by the UN and he yiel­ded then the king of the region Morocco, Has­san II In 1975 the Moroc­cans cros­sed the bor­der to annex the Wes­tern Sahara to their country

As a result of this situa­tion and due to the inva­sion of Morocco after the Spa­nish deco­lo­ni­za­tion Saha­raui had to flee from their terri­tory by the risk that meant for all that com­mu­nity the occu­pa­tion. Fina­lly the Saha­rauis settled down in an inhos­pi­ta­ble place of the desert that gran­ted Algiers to him

By chro­ni­cles it is known that around 250,000 peo­ple who cons­ti­tu­ted that com­mu­nity they began to strike camps in the desert to orga­nize itself and from exile they con­for­med their own society

Accor­ding to refe­ren­ces, the ones who were res­pon­si­ble of the orga­ni­za­tion initia­tive and inte­gra­tion initia­lly were the women, since the men had to leave to fight Gra­dua­lly were orga­ni­zing them­sel­ves with the inter­na­tio­nal aid and was so they mana­ged to build the cam­paigns in orga­ni­zed form Not only foun­ded schools to teach to their chil­dren and to give edu­ca­tion to them, but also took care of the health with the par­ti­ci­pa­tion of doc­tors, pro­fes­sors etc… Peo­ple who were edu­ca­ted when even it con­ti­nued the war

This com­mu­nity cons­ti­tu­ted itself like a model of com­mu­ni­ta­rian orga­ni­za­tion. These are noma­dic tri­bes who were dif­fe­rent from others by their social and cul­tu­ral organization

When begin­ning the pre­sent year in the sum­mit the Hispanic-Moroccan which was carried out in Rabat, by the con­flict of the Sahara, the Pre­si­dent of the Govern­ment of Spain, Rodri­guez Zapa­tero, sup­por­ted the Govern­ment of Morocco and endor­sed the auto­nomy, that exclu­des inde­pen­dence from the terri­tory Once again the Saha­rauis con­si­de­red that to endorse the Moroc­can Auto­nomy on the Wes­tern Sahara it meant to recog­nize early, accor­ding to the repre­sen­ta­ti­ves of this com­mu­nity, the sove­reignty of the Govern­ment of Morocco on the terri­tory, even though that the his­to­ri­cal ante­ce­dents demons­trate the opposite

The­re­fore expres­sions and the deter­mi­na­tions on the con­flict of the Spa­nish pre­si­dent for many did not mean a media­tion atti­tude, nor paci­fic trying to look for a defi­ni­tive solu­tion and he didn’t doubt in taking part by Morocco inten­sif­ying more the increa­sing terri­to­rial con­flict The­re­fore the atti­tude of the His­pa­nic pre­si­dent gene­ra­ted, in sco­pes of this com­mu­nity, a great frus­tra­tion and indig­na­tion res­pect to its somew­hat incom­prehen­si­ble posi­tion
It was con­si­de­red, that the Spa­nish Govern­ment “had lost his capa­city of media­tion and inter­lo­cu­tion” because they have assu­med a neu­tra­lity posi­tion as they did not have an atti­tude of “active par­tia­lity” in favour of Morocco” accor­ding to revea­led jour­na­lis­tic sources.

At the moment the head of the dele­ga­tion of the Poli­sa­rio Front in the nego­tia­tions of peace with Morocco, Alí Beiba, affir­med that the first con­tacts were “warm and res­pect­ful”, accor­ding to the decla­ra­tions of the news­pa­per the Khabar

In this mee­ting to obtain their inde­pen­dence with inter­ven­tion of the Secu­rity Coun­cil of the UN the pre­si­dent of the Par­lia­ment of the Saha­raui Repu­blic affir­med that: alt­hough Morocco res­pect to this situa­tion and that even they seems to have an uni­la­te­ral posi­tion been pre­sent Spain in these con­ver­sa­tions has allo­wed a warm rela­tion bet­ween the parts that give cer­tain hope of being able to con­ti­nue advan­cing in their recla­ma­tions in the future

The UN has sum­mo­ned to these nego­tia­tions bet­ween both repre­sen­ta­ti­ves with the objec­tive to unblock the pro­cess of peace in the Wes­tern Sahara

Let us remem­ber that Morocco and the Poli­sa­rio Front have been strug­gling by the sove­reignty of the terri­tory for appro­xi­ma­tely 30 years .for the Saha­raui hope that the inter­na­tio­nal com­mu­nity avoids a new bloods­hed in North Africa and that it pus­hes to Morocco to a refe­ren­dum is carried out or it at least recog­ni­zes the right from its town inde­pen­dence Alt­hough Morocco up to the moment con­ti­nue offe­ring an auto­nomy regime for the region

Accor­ding to the press, when con­clu­ding the last mee­ting near New York “the UN announ­ced that Morocco and the Poli­sa­rio Front will return to meet in “the second week of August” to con­ti­nue with the negotiations

It is to hope that alt­hough in the past the inter­na­tio­nal media­tion gave no results a new oppor­tu­nity has fai­led in the reso­lu­tion of the con­flict that faci­li­ta­tes the UN allows reaching favou­ra­ble agree­ments bet­ween the parts so that this com­mu­nity can fina­lly take roots pres­cri­bing their rights that gua­ran­tee the legi­ti­macy of their territory

Autor: Juana Marcó

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