PUSL.- A group of 20 young students have been protesting for two weeks in Rabat in front of the University building claiming their right to enroll.
Eight students were prevented from enrolling at Rabat University in law and social science courses. The officials told them that the University Board claims that they are not entitled to enroll because they are neither resident in Rabat nor have their IDs been issued in Rabat.
This argument does not, however, apply to Moroccans arriving from all over the Kingdom of Morocco and even from the occupied territories of Western Sahara.
This measure is not unique to Saharawi students who find it more difficult year after year to pursue their higher education.
As Western Sahara is under Moroccan occupation and full of settlers, Morocco’s strategy is to eradicate the Saharawi population by all means, either through forced impoverishment or pushing young people to emigrate illegally. Medical attention is negligent or nonexistent.
The presence of young Saharawi students has been a continuing headache for Morocco as they are in contact with young Moroccans outside the occupied territories and the manipulation of information given by official channels is exposed and denounced.
“This is not the only case, we have young people who are prevented from enrolling, who do not have access to university campuses, or who are already in courses but whose treatment by professors and university administrators is acts of pure racism. we never have access to courses like medicine, physics, chemistry, etc. This is not just in Rabat, which is 1200km from our land, it happens in all the universities of Morocco and it has been worse year after year. We are ghosts the international community is not interested in us, they all want us to disappear so that we are lone problem. They are mistaken they will not make us disappear and we will continue to fight for our rights. ” Mohamed, Saharawi student.
There are 8 new Saharawi students who have been denied the right to enroll, but 20 protest, solidarity and unity among the Saharawis is a force of this people who has resisted non-violently since 1991 (when the agreement cease-fire agreement was signed).
