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Omar Mih, Representative of the Polisario Front in Italy, addresses the audience.
"Isolation is the most terrible thing … many generations have been born in the desert and do not know the mountains, the sea …
I am sure that this project, this contact, this twinning – and I would like to thank all the teachers, students and friends – will make us fee less alone.
Twenty years ago, we made a choice. Notwithstanding the fact that our land had been invaded, that Morocco has an army of 150,000 soldiers occupying our land, in 1990 we decided to stop the war, to trust international diplomacy and collaborate with the United Nations for a precise goal. We want our people, via a referendum, to decide what it wishes for its land and whether we wish to be independent or part of Morocco.
We are not a fundamentalist people … we are an open, tolerant population. Every summer, we bring hundreds of children to Italy to teach them about peace, so that they may discover that the world is not only war, that there are other cultures, other realities, other peoples and other religions to learn about … The only thing we ask you is that you speak about us.”
From the speech given by Omar Mih, Representative of the Polisario Front in Italy, at the Videoconference with Africa at the Lazio Region.
