Dozens of activists, including Greta Thunberg, attending the Sahrawi Solidarity Summit, voiced their support for the Rojava Revolution and expressed solidarity with the resistance against the Turkish state’s attacks on the region.
The Sahrawi Solidarity Summit is taking place in the Sahrawi refugee camps in southern Algeria, with participants from various countries. Among the attendees at the summit, held in Boujdour Camp near Tindouf, were renowned climate justice activist Greta Thunberg, who recently visited North Kurdistan, and communication scholar and writer Kerem Schamberger.
Participants from Palestine, Chile, Colombia, Spain, Germany, Sweden, Japan, Lithuania, Croatia, the United States, and Italy also attended the summit to show their solidarity.
A presentation on the current situation in Northern and Eastern Syria was delivered during the summit. The intervention included the Turkish state’s occupation attacks following the fall of Assad. A solidarity message from the Rojava Internationalist Commune to the people of Western Sahara was also read.
The struggle of the Sahrawi people
The Sahrawi people have lived under Moroccan occupation since 1975. Many fled Moroccan army attacks to southern Algeria, where they have resided in five refugee camps they describe as “resistance camps” ever since.
The Sahrawi freedom movement, the Polisario Front, has been combating Moroccan colonialism through both military and peaceful means. The Polisario Front is a socialist-oriented movement that places women’s liberation at its core and maintains solidarity with other oppressed peoples’ struggles. This long-standing resistance has made the Sahrawis and their freedom organization, the Polisario Front, deeply familiar with the challenges and resilience required to fight against occupation and colonialism.
