PUSL.- There are many reasons why a human being longs to spend the last days of his existence in his country, in his homeland, especially when this homeland has been denied to him for decades and occupied by foreign forces.
Morocco once again shows its fear, the enormity of its occupation and its brutal and inhuman side by denying the right to die in Western Sahara to the 72 year old Saharawi Dr Busaraia, suffering from a terminal illness which is in its final stages.
On arrival in El Aaiun, the capital of occupied Western Sahara, the elderly Saharawi got off the plane in the company of his two sons and a brother.
After they had arrived at the home of a niece and a group of people had turned up to celebrate his return, members of the Moroccan occupation forces burst into the house demanding that Dr Busaraia accompany them to the airport for a supposed final fingerprinting procedure.
The relatives tried to prevent the departure of Dr Busraia, who is blind and has to travel in a wheelchair. The Moroccan agents immediately beat up the people in the house.
Dr Busraia was then forcibly taken alone to the airport and put on a plane to Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
On his arrival in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, he was admitted to the Doctor Negrín Hospital, where he remains.
This is another sad episode in the history of the Saharawis but even more an infinite shame for the Moroccan people. Morocco fears a man who is blind, in a wheelchair and who only arrived in his homeland to die. The fragility of the Moroccan occupation of Western Sahara and its lack of legitimacy are thus demonstrated to the whole world including Morocco itself, when a state backed by hundreds of thousands of soldiers and the latest technology and weaponry is afraid of an old man.
It’s not afraid of his actions since he will do nothing, but of his simple presence.
Morocco has transformed Dr Busraia, who, as can be seen from his curriculum vitae below, has a laudable record of resistance and was known to all Saharawis, into a name which will be known beyond borders, well beyond Western Sahara and Spain.
More importantly Morocco demonstrates to its people who Dr.Busaraia is and how Morocco only knows how to resort to violence and disrespect, a Kingdom trapped in the terror, uncertainty and misery of Tyranny.
Radio Sahara National Short biography of Dr Busaraia
Busaraia was born in El Aaiún and moved to Madrid in 1973 to study Education Sciences at the Complutense University, where he became a clandestine member of the Spanish Communist Party and later the International Communist Party.
In November 1975 the Green March took place and the Polisario Front recruited him to lay the foundations of the Saharawi state in exile in Tindouf. With a mobile radio station supplied by Algeria, he founded the National Radio of the Sahara. Busaraia worked as a translator and editor and helped with health work.
The radio had a staff of seven people, who sometimes went out “to perform at the front”. Another seven people were in charge of the weekly newspaper “Sahara Libre” and the magazine “20 de mayo” of the Polisario Front, which printed 12,000 copies.
He began to lose his night vision due to a process of wear and tear of the retinas. In 1989, he moved to Cuba as embassy press attaché and Latin America correspondent to treat his vision problem, which was progressing unstoppably. He stayed there for eight years and eventually lost his sight completely, so he decided to move to Lanzarote.
On the island, he began to adapt to his new situation, joined ONCE and learned Braille and how to use the Yaus system to operate a computer.