Sahrawi

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• This author, the first to write on the Sahrawi disappeared, also has documented the widespread human rights violations effectuated by Moroccan authorities under martial law in Western Sahara.

  Academic text (1991)

• The Sahrawi people resisted, but not without great human costs.

  Academic text (1991)

• A Sahrawi who had been working with him has since joined the ranks of the disappeared.

  Academic text (1991)

• The Sahrawi people will choose between independence and integration with Morocco.

  Academic text (1991)

• Sadly, MINURSO, the UN body established to prepare an act of free choice for the Sahrawi people, seems paralyzed.

  Academic text (1991)

• As all three films show, thousands of Sahrawi have been living in dire conditions in refugee camps in southern Algeria since 1975.

  Blog text (27)

• The beautiful phrase 'sons of the clouds' refers to the way the Sahrawi people think of themselves; originally a nomadic people, they followed the clouds through the hot, dry Sahara desert until they made the Western Sahara home.

  Blog text (27)

• Furthermore, the International Court of Justice, in an exhaustive study published in October 1975, had dismissed both Moroccan and Mauritanian territorial claims over Western Sahara, emphasizing that the Sahrawi people should enjoy their right of self-determination.

  Academic text (1991)

• In the first half of 1992, a scheduled plebiscite, organized and executed by the United Nations (UN), offers the best chance of crumbling this desert wall and delivering proper title to the territory—either to the indigenous Sahrawi people or to the Kingdom of Morocco.

  Academic text (1991)

• The Sahrawi people will choose between independence and integration with Morocco.

Compounds

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Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic

9.9

A partially recognized country in western North Africa that claims Western Sahara

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Etymology