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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Muhammad Bassiri
On June 17 1970 the organization appeared openly in a peaceful demonstration against Spanish rule in the Zemla quarters of El-Aaiun, which was brutally put down by the army.
The Zemla Intifada (Intifada means uprising) is the name for the disturbances of June 17, 1970, which culminated in a massacre by Spanish forces in the Zemla quarters of El-Aaiun, Western Sahara (then Spanish Sahara).
Present-day Sahrawi nationalists such as the Polisario Front honor him as the father of the modern Sahrawi independence struggle, as well as the first of the "disappeared" and a national martyr.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Muhammad-Bassiri   (1375 words)

  
 Western Sahara - Sahara Occidental -Droits humains
He attended all the demonstrations denouncing the savage repression of the intifada victims during May and June 2005.
He was arrested on Friday June 17th, 2005, the day of the Intifada of Zemla commemoration that was in 1970 against the Spanish.
He stayed in the police station until Monday June 20 to be presented to the court and was put in the Black Jail in El Ayun.
www.arso.org /intifadasent230605.htm   (604 words)

  
 Intifada - TvWiki, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The al-Aqsa Intifada (also known as the second Palestinian intifada or the Second Intifada) was the violent Palestinian-Israeli conflict that began in September of 2000.
The use of the term Intifada in Western Sahara goes back to earlier uprisings in 1999 (the Smara Intifada), and 1970 (the Zemla Intifada, against Spanish occupation).
"Intifada of Independence" is the term mostly used by the Lebanese media to refer to the events that occurred after Rafiq Hariri's assasination.
www.tvwiki.tv /wiki/Intifada   (347 words)

  
 » Palmyra land gets Palestine style Intifada
Besides the underlying motivation of the Jaffna protests is based on the premise as in the case of the Palestinian Intifada that the armed forces are an army of occupation who must be driven out.
The first Intifada was a pressure device exerted by the PLO and culminated in 1993 with the Oslo accords.
Even the 1999 Western Sahara uprising was called the Smara Intifada and the 1970 movement against Spanish occupation was known as the “zemla Intifada”.
transcurrents.com /tamiliana/archives/30   (3125 words)

  
 Intifada   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Second, or al-Aqsa Intifada, the violent Palestinian-Israeli conflict that began in September of 2000
Independence Intifada, sporadic demonstrations and riots in Morocco/Western Sahara beginning in May 2005
Zemla Intifada against Spanish rule in Spanish Sahara
www.buzznet.com /tags/intifada   (96 words)

  
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Moroccan police, especially a recently constituted group (the group of urban security), which is accustomed to organise theatrical marches in the city to scare and intimidate the population, besides other Moroccan police corps violently oppressed the demonstrators.
Completely under siege, confrontations took place between Saharawi population and Moroccan forces in, Zemla, Maatallah and the Squekima street, the legendary neighbourhoods and symbols of resistance during the Intifada of 1999.
Uprising against the occupant and against its "brutal ways of repression against the local population", hundreds Saharawis demonstrated Monday in front of the colonial administrative seat in Zemla, a popular neighbourhood from where the first national popular uprising broke in June 19, 1970 as well as the Intifada of September 1999.
homepage.mac.com /barry.keevins/iblog/justice/C1456823857/E1407076978/index.html   (1182 words)

  
 TamilWeek: Palmyra land gets Palestine style Intifada
The second intifada known as the "al - aqsa Intifada" began in 2000 and by
against Spanish occupation was known as the "zemla Intifada".
Intifada because Tamil political discourse has its own terminology and history.
tamilweek.com /Palmyra_land_student_youth_demonstartions_1211.html   (2257 words)

  
 Untitled Document
On the commemoration of the Intifada of Zemla which took place in 1970 in El Ayun the capital of the Western Sahara to demonstrate in Al Inaache district.
Moroccan police, especially a recently constituted group (the group of urban security), which is accustomed to organize theatrical marches in the city to scare and intimidate the population, besides other Moroccan police corps violently oppressed the demonstrators.
Completely under siege, confrontations took place between Saharawi population and Moroccan forces in, Zemla, Maatallah and the Squekima street, the legendary neighbourhoods and symbols of resistance during the Intifada of 1999.
www.vastsahara.org /intifadaold.html   (8810 words)

  
 Independence Intifada: Encyclopedia II - Independence Intifada - International Reactions
Several international human rights-organizations have shown interest in alleged Moroccan abuse of Sahrawi demonstrators.
Independence Intifada, Independence Intifada - Background, Independence Intifada - Demonstrations and arrests, Independence Intifada - International Reactions, Years of lead, Zemla Intifada
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www.experiencefestival.com /a/Independence_Intifada_-_International_Reactions/id/5157207   (341 words)

  
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Desde esa fecha, los saharauis recuerdan aquellas jornadas como la masacre de Zemla, el barrio donde se produjo.
Tras los sucesos de Zemla, Sidi Lebsir pasó 18 meses encerrado en las cárceles de la colonia.
Y rechazamos cualquier forma de autogobierno o estatus de autonomía bajo la férula de Marruecos", dice Mustafá Sayed ante este grupo de periodistas que ya barrunta y especula con un tipo de solución hecha a la medida de las aspiraciones de Marruecos.
usuarios.lycos.es /amaps/articulos_.htm   (5865 words)

  
 [Sahara-Update] : growing uprising & repression in occupied   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Zemla, a popular neighbourhood from where the first national popular
El Aaiun, 25/05/2005 (SPS) The Intifada of the Saharawi population,
The "Intifada", which started on Monday, is reported to be ongoing.
www.newsbackup.com /about782694.html   (5804 words)

  
 WSO| The Human Rights activist Fatma Ayach is subjected to a whole day interrogation
Ayach, who is dedicating her time and energy to the defence of human rights in the occupied territories of Western Sahara, but also comes within the framework of the fierce search undertaken by the Moroccan political police for the Saharawi human rights’ activist, Terrouzi Yahdih", the same source added.
Terrouzi Yahdih, it should be stressed, is a young man who used to ork closely with the Saharawi human rights’ activists, Ali Salem Tamek, Aminatou Haidar, and other political prisoners, and was the most active human rights defenders during the events of the Intifada of Independence.
Aminatou Haidar and Lidri Elhoussine, last June the 17th 2005 during a peaceful demonstration held to protest against the repression exercised by the Moroccan police against an other demonstration that was held earlier the same day in commemoration of the historical Intifada of ‘Zemla’ in 1970.
www.wsahara.net /05/fayache.html   (766 words)

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