SID HAMDI YAHDIH
As a Sahrawi , I never believed in the United Nations' role in international affairs.
Israel invaded
Palestine without license from United Nations, and
still does its brutal, inhuman occupation to the arabic
land without reaction from the international organisation.
Morocco invaded Western Sahara, forcibly, againts the willingness of
the international organisation / law, and still does the
role of invader for more than thirty years.
Lastly, UN did nothing to prevent the occupation
of Irak.
Historically, in my own opinion, there is no
organisation carries the name of United Nations. There is a
political umbrella named UN aims to protect the super powers policy
. If they want to do a dirty-affair against the law, they
will use their political-umbrella (UN) to protect
theirselves against the world critics.
Sometimes they fight each other fore the use of the same umbrella,
but finally they would unify about the same plan.
The Sahara affair is one of the longest controversial affairs
that has faced the United Nations since its existence in 1945.
The UN did nothing, but some resolutions, to implement the
self-determination principle to the Saharawis during Spanish's
colonialism, then it could not prevent the Moroccan occupation
in 1975. Now, after about three decades, Morocco still does the
same illegal occupation, and UN still repeat the same nonsense
resolutions.
Western Sahara affair is scheduled in UN'
decolonilisation-agenda since more than fourty years, but no positive
position on independence happened on the ground from
then till now. No new, Western Sahara still suffers under
the new colonialisme, and mayby will
stay suffering for countless other years.
Now, UN aim to
issue a new resolution about the Sahara affair; it will extend the
MINURSO's mandate for ten/six new months. This is the first
time, since its existence in Sahara, UN extend the
mandate of its' commission (MINURSO) for ten or six months
( no difference between two and six, after the expire of the next
mandate a new one will follow it). The new mandate will be long for
the Saharwis who are facing a policy of suffocation from Morocco. As
it is clear from the last development, UN submitted
to the occupation policy in Western Sahara and,
finally, throw the towel. "No action against Morocco willingness
without its own accord" ( How miserable is such
slogan.)
Ten/six months is enough to make the Sahrawis suffer more and more.
The humanitarian organisations will make the sufferance very deep by
reducing, as it is doing since many years, the small
quantity of its help to the refugee camps. The children and
aged people will be the target of such suffrance in bad
conditions of weather and bad conditions of life as it is found in
the desert.
The policy of
UN in Western Sahara is, now, similar of that of Morocco
towards the same affair; a policy of forgetness and negligence
to oblige the Saharwis to surrender to Morocco after getting tired of
the long conflict. A policy of making the suffrance very deep by
cutting off any humanitarian's help from abroad.
If UN is helping Morocco, secretly, to implement its inhuman
policy, what fair solution could the Sahrawis wait for
from it after now? For the Sahrawis, more than twelve years of
nothing from UN is enough to them to change their behaviour
towards it. They dealt with it seriously and finally they found
theirselves in the same point of begining. The existence of
MINURSO in Sahara is a bitter lesson for the Saharawis, they wasted a
long time waiting for a solution, and when they opened their
eyes, they found nothing but more suffrance.
If we ask a Sahrawi now, what he waits for from UN after the new
mandate, he will answer quickly:" a new other mandate."
The Saharwis' popular opinion is very angry about UN
behaviour. The organisation is guilty in the eyes of the
Sahrawis and the eyes of their friends. It lost the
last bit of credibility, and become a mean in the hand
of Morocco's policy.
05.05.04