Saharyjska Arabska Republika Demokratyczna – państwo na wygnaniu

• Authors: Kosidło Adam

Title variants

EN

Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic – an Exiled State

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Nowadays, the more is being said about democracy and human rights, the more refugees there are. There are many reasons for such a situation but one of the most important ones is the fact that global powers consider their own interests inspired by geopolitics to be more important than international law, unambiguously proved by the casus of Western Sahara, whose citizens have been waiting for the referendum promised by the U.N. for 40 years now. Some of them are waiting for the settlement of the dispute under Moroccan occupation, and some in refugee camps in Algerian Sahara. The latter even organized a state in exile, Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic, whose structures were able to provide for survival – with the assistance of Algeria, the U.N. and many nother humanitarian organizations – for over 150 000 Sahara people, at the standard much higher than of other refugees living in over 100 camps globally. They are waiting patiently, they do not use terror, although Islamic fundamentalism is getting closer and closer to the centre of the Sahara and may present an alternative to the desperate ones. It is insignificant in terms of thinking about peace in that region, whether the result of the referendum will be favourable for Morocco or the independence of Western Sahara. The referendum simply should be held. It would be important not only for the entire region, mainly Morocco and Algeria, but also for France, which intervening elsewhere – very close recently – has mouth full of platitudes on democracy and human rights.

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Gdański
• Journal: Studia Historica Gedanensia
• Year: 2014
• Volume: Volume 5 (2014)
• Pages: 175-195

Dates

online

2014

Contributors

author

Kosidło Adam

• Instytut Spraw Międzynarodowych, Akademia Marynarki Wojennej w Gdyni, Poland

Identifiers

DOI

10.4467/23916001HG.14.009.2674