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November 17, 2010

U.N. Security Council Rejects Probe of Western Sahara Crackdown
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The U.N. Security Council has rejected a plea to investigate the
Moroccan government’s recent crackdown on the pro-independence movement
in Western Sahara. Moroccan security forces last week raided a camp
where some 20,000 Sahrawis had been staging a massive protest against
the Moroccan occupation. Dozens of protesters were wounded.
Representatives of Western Sahara’s Polisario Front had asked the United
Nations to send a fact-finding mission to investigate. But on Tuesday,
the Security Council denied the request, instead releasing a statement
"deploring" the recent violence without saying who was to blame.



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