The International Court of Justice deliberated the decolonization status of Western Sahara from Spain between 13 December 1974 and 16 October 1976, and granted the peoples self-determination through the free and genuine expression of the will of the peoples of the Territory. Immediately, Morocco began a bloody war to annex the territory and exile the Sahrawi people, recognized by the African Union… a war, supported by the United States, which continues to today, according to Bill Fletcher, co-coordinator of the “Campaign to End the Moroccan Occupation of the Western Sahara“.
Fletcher gives a history of the conflict and the involvement of the U.S., and recommends action of the U.S. to end this conflict.
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