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Response to Kamal Fedal
The issues Kamal raises have been debated in the electronic media and I draw on that. Keeping African slaves has been practised by white Berber/Arabs...
The issues Kamal raises have been debated in the electronic media and I draw on that.
Keeping African slaves has been practised by white Berber/Arabs for several hundred years and has been hard to eradicate. UN and Human Rights Watch confirm that it is still practised in the Saharawi camps.
Most dialogue is in Spanish. Hassania is not a written language and agreement on translation is unlikely. All Hassania dialogue could be removed without changing the message.
A 2008 UNHCR report on the Saharawi camps notes that the Polisario's suppression of freedom of speech and freedom of movement of camp residents continues to be a concern.
The film underwent intense legal scrutiny following a three-year campaign by the Polisario to suppress it. If there had been a problem it would not have been screened at SFF.
Footage was stolen and shown on Moroccan TV, apparently damaging the Polisario campaign for independence. This does not mean film makers are Moroccan spies. They inadvertently became caught up someone else's war.
The media campaign to suppress the film is been lent credibilty by human rights activist, Meredith Burgmann, and her former chief of staff, Yvette Andrews, through their involvement with the Australia Western Sahara Association which has links to the ALP. In 2004 Andrews visited the Saharawi camps with Burgmann and made a film showing the official Polisario version of their fight for independence.
The 7.30 Report is not impartial however the film makers are credible in their interview, available on Youtube.