The Spanish called the Saharawis "The Sons and Daughters of the Clouds" because of their dependence on rain. This reality of the climatology and the territory where the Saharawi has always lived, added to the fact that in every anti-colonial struggle "the subjected peoples have nothing to lose" and that the perception of time that this people has, defined in a well-known Saharawi saying that reads, "He who dresses with time is naked in reference to those people who expect time to solve and give them the answer to everything", leads me to the conclusion that no one and nothing will defeat the unity, firmness, hope and dignity of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR).
The history of Western Sahara has been and continues to be, even today, the great hostage. 43 years after Spain abandoned the territory and the Saharawis, leaving them helpless under the boots of a Moroccan state, oppressor, criminal and violator of Human Rights, according to international and local NGOs, "The Sons and Daughters of the Clouds", unfortunately, continue to be the great forgotten. Most of the generations under 40 years of age are unaware of the main events that occurred in Saguía El Hamra and Río de Oro, in the temporal space of an Ordinance of the Spanish Government of December 26, 1884, where it took under its protection the local Saharawi tribes, and the Tripartite Agreement of Madrid of November 14, 1975, in which said government renounced the link and responsibility it had over everything that happened there, and sold it to Morocco and Mauritania. A process of decolonization that is unfinished and that represents a moral obscenity in the field of national and international politics.
The Spanish government could not, unilaterally, end its responsibilities as administering power, nor transfer the sovereignty and administration of the territory to other states (article 73. UN Charter) that did not possess any legal link, nor previous sovereignty over these territories. The Vienna Treaty, article 53, on the law of treaties, indicates that any of these is annulled at the moment it violates any norm of international law and that, in addition, it can be qualified as an international crime. For the United Nations (UN), which represents international legality, the Spanish government continues to be the sole administering power of Western Sahara. And this place is inscribed on the UN agenda as a non-autonomous territory, not concluding this situation until it exercises the right to freely choose its future. The Tripartite Agreement is null.
The sale of the territory not only constitutes a violation of international law because it unilaterally negotiates the delivery of the territory for a series of economic compensations for its own benefit, but also a crime against humanity committed by the Spanish authorities by actively collaborating in the delivery of citizens who until that moment were Spanish and were protected by recognized rights. The historical responsibility of the Spanish government is not only that it used repression and violence (Crimes of state: Bassiri,...) against the legal and legitimate aspirations, recognized by the UN, of the Saharawi people. Nor in that it made a historical betrayal of its Right to Self-determination and that it was and continues to be an accomplice in the violation of Human Rights by the Moroccan government in the illegally occupied territories of Western Sahara. The dignity of the Spanish State lies in the fact that the Decolonization of the Sahara is its pending issue and that, as it continues to be the sole administering power, it has the moral and political duty to resolve this conflict that created, between 1975 and 1991, a zone of war and insecurity in the Maghreb, which affected the Canary Islands (Canarian-Saharan fishing ground, strafing of Canarian ships and sailors,?). And that, today, continues to provoke a space of instability, conflict and violation of Human Rights.
The political forces of the Congress of Deputies and the Spanish Senate, as representatives of the sovereignty of the Spanish people, have to demand that the Spanish government of the moment, no matter who or who they are, abandon the foreign policy of subordination to the potential political enemy that is the Moroccan State, and the permanent cession to its geopolitical and ideological blackmail (Ceuta, Melilla, fishing, immigration, drug trafficking, jihadism,...) and obscure motivations of trafficking in personal and economic interests of leaders of both states, complying with international law through the process of decolonization of Western Sahara. The Moroccan State is the potential enemy of international law, of the procedure for the peaceful resolution of the conflict in Western Sahara (Referendum of Self-determination) and a threat to neighboring countries in its expansionist policy since its creation in 1956.
The United Nations cannot continue to allow the systematic violence of the legal framework to become the norm. A member of the UN, Morocco, prevents the self-determination of the Saharawi people, against international resolutions and norms and defying the UN, while another, Spain, abandons its responsibilities without the UN Security Council intervening with the means necessary to enforce international law.
All international organizations, their resolutions and international law (UN, OAU, Non-Aligned Countries,?), protect the Saharawi People (Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic-S.A.D.R.) and its legitimate representative (Polisario Front) to use any means to defend the Right to its Self-determination and end the existing colonial situation. The Saharawi People, who lived under Spanish colonial occupation and who are now subjected by an occupation force of the Moroccan State, are endorsed by international law to fight for the exercise of their right, when the Spanish government unilaterally disassociates itself from the international obligations to defend the colonial population.
As Javier Márquez Quevedo said (November 2016), in the prologue to the book by the Doctor in History, Beatriz Andreu Mediero ("The golden under the sun. Canarians in the old Spanish Sahara". 2017):
"?,not all is lost. like the fine sand of the dunes, human history advances in zigzag. The future is not written anywhere. who can assure that the capricious nature of the world will not cause Canarians and Saharawis to meet again, in freedom".
By the way, in case anyone has interest, curiosity, doubt or distrust of everything I have previously stated, I recommend reading Beatriz's book and also that of the Doctor in Historical Sciences, Emboirik Ahmed Omar (The Saharawi nationalist movement". From Zemla to the organization of the African Unity. 2017).
By Juan Antonio de la Hoz (Canarian Association of solidarity with the Saharawi people-Lanzarote)