Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara Jail (photos):

[EuroObserver]

En la Cárcel Negra de El Aaiun, in the Black Jail of El Aaiun, prisoners who recently demonstrated for democratic rights, the UN-supported referendum on local national sovereignty, remain in these conditions.

I must in the next hours travel, but can perhaps offer translations and further information in a few days time, (if the USA is any longer interested in international human affairs (especially where there may be oil &/or other mineral resources involved))...

Let these pictures, for now, speak for themselves: http://canarias.indymedia.org/newswire/display/12276/index.php

[Minstrel Boy]

1. Thanks. Morroco needs to be held to account for its crimes

in Western Sahara. It's perhaps the most neglected gross injustice in the world today.

[mainegreen]

2. It makes me mad whenever I think about western sahara,

Especially when maps and atlases just show it as part of Morocco. And to be perfectly honest, Spain is partly to blame for this mess.

[EuroObserver]

3. Yes. Apparently, in international law,

Spain is still the responsible colonial power.

However, James Baker III was appointed UN representative to try to sort out the mess, failed, and resigned.

Recently, potential oil/gas fields have been explored...

There are many sources of information in Spanish in the net... But in English see, above all:

SAHARA PRESS SERVICE: http://www.spsrasd.info/main3e.html

also, eg:

Western Sahara Online: http://www.wsahara.net/

Resources linked from the African Studies Center of the University of Pennsylvania: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Country_Specific/W_Sahara.html

[mainegreen]

4. Ack! They have a friggin "Security Wall"!

from 1981! God dammit! So thats where Isreal got that misbegotten idea!