Thursday, November 11, 2010

Why no coverage of the Moroccan raid in Al-`Uyun

"Amnesty International called Thursday on Moroccan authorities to launch an independent probe into a raid on a refugee camp in Western Sahara which left 11 people dead.  Moroccan officials say 10 of those killed were police while the other victim was an employee of the state-run phosphates bureau.  The Polisario Front, which opposes Moroccan rule in Western Sahara, also says 11 people died in Monday's raid to clear 12,000 refugees from the camp, but has indicated that at least some were civilians."  What happened there tends to disprove the thesis of the article on the Western Sahara in the Economist two weeks ago.