Watch Echoes of fighting

Echoes of fighting

0.0 0 0h 12m 2021

Director: Mikel Bejarano

On the 14th of November 2020 the Polisario Front considered breaking the ceasefire calling on the United Nations to intervene and declare a 'state of war' throughout the territory in response to an attack commited by Moroccan forces the day before. On the early morning of thursday to friday the 13th of November, at the border crossing of Guerguerat, Moroccan forces took action to expel a group of around 50 Sahrawi civilians who were, since the 21st of October, blocking the connectiong road with Mauritania in order to demand that the United Nations hold a referendum of autoindependence as was promised in 1991. In this short documentary the situation of the Sahrawi people after the events of the 13th of November is explained.