Green March
The Green March was a strategic mass demonstration in November 1975, coordinated by the Moroccan government, to force Spain to hand over the disputed, autonomous semi-metropolitan Spanish Province of Sahara to Morocco. The demonstration of some 350,000 Moroccans advanced several miles into the Western Sahara territory, escorted by near 20,000 Moroccan troops, and meeting very little response by the Sahrawi Polisario Front. Nevertheless, the events quickly escalated into a fully waged war between Morocco and the Polisario - the Western Sahara War, which would last for 16 years.
Read more about Green March: Background, The Green March, The Moroccan Arguments For Sovereignty, The Madrid Accords
Famous quotes containing the words green and/or march:
“Don’t eat
those nice green dollars your wife
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—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
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