The African Union had a meeting in Tokyo (Tokyo International Conference on African Development). A couple articles online as well as a video emerged. The meeting was supposed to happen this week end. But one of the Moroccan representative ended up being banned and the majority of the delegation followed him out of solidarity (or maybe shame I ain’t in their heads). Today when the representatives came in to prepare tomorrow’s meeting, the Moroccan representative tried to physically attack the representative of Western Sahara and remove the thing on the desk with the name of the country. The representative of Algeria had to get involved to tackle the Moroccan and stop him… (using the close up video on which someone added the flags so you know who is who)
It’s crazy how indigenous people just have to breathe and exist for colonizers to feel offended and attack them. Like Moroccans are justifying it by saying the representative of Western Sahara put a tag with the name of his country on the table…
Moroccans who support colonialism are also pulling out a 2022 video in which Japan says that they don’t recognize Western Sahara as a state. They pretend that the video happened today and that it’s the proof that the representative of Western Sahara introduced himself in the meeting without being allowed to with Algeria’s help. For the record the presence of Western Sahara was known before the attack. While it’s happening in Tokyo it involves the UN which means that Japan’s personal opinion on Western Sahara in 2022 doesn’t matter.
About Japan not recognizing Western Sahara: Are we just erasing Japanese imperialism and colonialism in East Asia to pretend that their opinion on colonialism comes from a good place? Like a colonizer supporting an other colonizer how surprising I guess? France is also on Morocco’s side… Spain is on Morocco’s side… Israel is on Morocco’s side… the US are on Morocco’s side. Like if the colonizers are on your side in a case where you’re accused of colonialism don’t brag about it.
