“Four days in the occupied Western Sahara” .. An American documentary highlights the desert people

On Sunday in Geneva, a documentary film for American journalist Amy Godman, the presenter of the daily news program “Democracy Now!” The award -winning international, under the title “Four days in the occupied Western Sahara”, which highlights the suffering of the Sahrawi people in the occupied part of the Western Sahara.

This documentary, which contributed to breaking the siege imposed by Morocco on the occupied part of the desert lands – is presented when the film’s producer and its team managed to enter Western Sahara despite the strict control – a rare view of what is happening within the last colony in Africa.

This documentary presents the testimonies of a group of Sahrawi militants victims of enforced disappearance, torture and grave violations of human rights, as well as highlighting the policy of the occupation administration to prevent the empowerment of media professionals, jurists and international organizations to visit the occupied areas of Western Sahara.

The documentary embodies the tragedy of the Sahrawi people and its suffering in the occupied part, as it is fighting a peaceful battle, in defense of its land and its steadfast and uncompromising their behavior or limitations in self -determination and independence.

After the presentation, a discussion was opened with the audience, activated by Amy Godman, and desert human rights defenders, such as Sultana Khia, Al -Ghaly Al -Djimi and Al -Modern Muhammad.

In the context, a member of the Executive Bureau of the Sahrawi Authority for the Approval of the Moroccan occupation, Al -Ghaly Al -Dejimi, confirmed that this documentary “documents the suffering of the Sahrawi people with foreign eyes, as it was prepared by an American journalist during her visit to the occupied city of El -Ayoun in Western Sahara for four days 9 years ago.”

She added: “This journalist has lived with us difficult moments and tasted part of the suffering of the Sahrawi people that extend for more than 50 years.” Today, the American journalist asks us as women coming from the occupied lands about what is new in the occupied region and about the increasing human rights violations of Morocco that rebels against international legitimacy, by rejecting all the decisions of the United Nations that give the Sahrawi people the right to report Fate. ”

For its part, Sahrawi human rights, Sultana Khia, stressed that the documentary “transmits and documents the suffering that the Sahrawi people have been experiencing from 1975 to the present day”, stressing that the Moroccan occupation of Western Sahara “is” Iil to disappear, because we are determined to freedom and independence. “

In addition to showing this film, a desert tent was installed that included an exhibition of ancient desert heritage, which allowed the audience an opportunity to identify aspects of daily desert life.

The symposium witnessed the presence of a number of representatives of the diplomatic corps approved in Switzerland, civil society, international activists, human rights experts and heads of some international organizations, in addition to politicians, academics and intellectuals.