Chahid Al Hafed (refugee camps), June 17, 2013 (SPS) - The Saharawi people commemorated today, Monday, the forty-seventh anniversary of the historic Zemla Uprising, announced by the Avant-garde Movement for the Liberation of the Sahara on 17 June 1970 under the leadership of Mohamed Sid Brahim Basiri, as a response to the Spanish colonialism’s plots.
A ceremony organized today in Chaheed Al Hafed to mark the event, in the presence of the President of the Republic and Secretary General of the Polisario Front Mr. Mohamed Abdelaziz, members of the Saharawi government and POLISARIO National Secretariat, as well as cadres in the state.
The national flag was raised to mark the start of the celebrations.
Several other cultural and social festivities have been organized to mark the event.
Moreover, a seminar organized at the Culture Ministry hall by poets and intellectuals.
To recall, June 17th of each year marks the anniversary of Zemla Uprising, which broke out in Zemla quarter in the center of the city of El Aaiun, capital of Western Sahara.
This even has seen by observers as a “turning point” in the history of the Saharawi national movement for independence, through which the deceased Mohamed Sid Brahim Basiri played a pivotal role in the face of Spanish occupation authorities. (SPS)
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