Thousands of people demonstrated in Madrid November 13 against Morocco's recent crackdown 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. Morocco has announced that it will try, in a military court, more than 100 Sahrawi activists who helped organize the camp. Democracy Now! goes to Laayoune to speak with Peter Bouckaert of Human Rights Watch and is joined by University of San Francisco professor Stephen Zunes, author of Western Sahara: War, Nationalism, and Conflict Irresolution.
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