Independence Intifada (Western Sahara)
The Independence Intifada (intifada is Arabic for "uprising") is a Saharawi activist coinage for a series of disturbances, demonstrations and riots that broke out in May 2005 in the Moroccan-occupied parts of Western Sahara and south of Morocco. This event has also been called "The El-Aaiun Intifada" by the same sources. International coverage of the disturbances has been limited because restrictions placed by the Moroccan authorities on international journalists, and Moroccan official sources have downplayed the events.
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