Morocco, murderous kingdom

I guess it should be clear to anyone reading regularly this blog that I have a rather strong sense of belonging to both Asturies (and Galiza in a lesser extent) and Europe, and no feeling at all of belonging to Spain. In fact, I feel uncomfortable when being abroad and having to show my Spanish passport or identify myself as Spanish in any other way. I come from an Atlantic land with an Atlantic culture, and almost everything people tend to identify with Spain are Mediterranean elements that have quite little to do with me or my family (neither the negative nor the positive ones).


The thing is that from time to time something happens that makes me not just uncomfortable, but purely ashamed of having a Spanish passport, and we're right now in the middle of one of those situations.

In 1975 Spain took one of the more contemptible steps in her recent history, the handing over of her last colonial territory, Western Sahara to the blood thirsty Moroccan kingdom. This means that in an unprecedented move and unlike the rest of the European powers, Spain did not carry out a process of decolonization of a territory that had been exploiting for over 1 century, but gave it away to a new oppressive power, Morocco (and also Mauritania at first). So, the Sahrawi people changed hands from a European dictatorship that had not treated them too bad (thought a dictatorship, being part of the Western world makes you accept some minimum moral laws, if only to avoid criticism from your neighbours) to the brutal, bloody Moroccan dictatorship (well, they prefer to call themselves a kingdom, it sounds more nice...)

What all this has meant for the Sahrawi people has been 35 years of brutal exploitation of their mineral resources, discrimination in favor of the new settlers sent by Morocco to replace the autoctonous population, constant attempts to destroy and replace their culture and identity... all in all, there's a clear name for this GENOCIDE.

In the last weeks, the GENOCIDE has entered a new phase, and the Moroccans are killing the Sahrawis in their own homes before the indifference of the European Union, the UN and worst of all, the main culprit of all this, Spain.



If Spanish government had a minimum of dignity, if Spain had any sort of international prestige or recognition, if Spain were not a joke country that can be looked down on by anyone, even by a shit country like Morocco... The Spanish Army (backed by the EU, that would have to support the legitimate actions of one of its members) would have been sent to Western Sahara to protect the population and heal the wound that was opened in 1975. Western Sahara could be turned temporaly into the 18th Spanish Autonomous Community, waiting for a future referendum of self determination, once the International Community were able to guarantee that the disgusting Moroccan dictatorship would never put their dirty hands on the territory.

But not, 40 years of dictatorship and 35 years of misgovernment by corrupt, ignorant politicians, in addition to the historical backwardness when compared to other European countries, have made of Spain a fucking puppet that has no other option that kneeling before the Moroccan dictator to protect some dubious economical interests...

And still some Spaniards do not understand why Basques, Catalans, Galicians, Asturians seek for independence... who in their right mind would want to be part of this joke country that can not be taken seriously by anyone?



Sahrawi people and Polisario Front RESIST!!!