Documentary film “A Republic in exile” or extent of Western Sahara drama

PARIS – The face weathered by sun and sand storms, the look full of distress, and the tone interspersed with tears at the memory of the exile to which they were forced, there were many Sahrawis to testify before the camera of director Cheikh Djamai to reveal the extent of the drama of Western Sahara under Moroccan occupation.

Proposed on Thursday evening, at the Maison des Associations in Paris, at the initiative of the French association “Survival”, the testimony of a 52-minute documentary entitled “A Republic in exile” released in France in 2008, showed to a curious public, the reality endured by the Sahrawi people, who became a refugee, torn, on his own land, exiled from his country, a people held hostage, the only one still waiting for her self-determination to be recognized in the facts.

The stories collected by the director are moving and thus reveal the extent of the distress of a Saharawi old lady, who tells how painfully Moroccan occupation forces bombed with napalm and white phosphorus, the Sahrawi people to drive them out from their land.