The Developments of the Desert Resistance Until 1963

Abstract

The Sahrawi victories over the Spanish and French occupation forces were great, despite the number and equipment possessed by those forces. However, the insistence of the Sahrawi fighters to liberate their usurped lands had clear results on the ground, as he recovered a number of those lands despite the presence of a strong current working against him to end and dismantle it. And after the independence of Morocco, the demand began to include the Liberation Army in the Moroccan National Army, which was formed after the independence of Morocco in 1956. However, the Liberation Army continued its struggle to regain its lands, as the Sahrawi fighters were active in launching military operations against the Spanish forces in cooperation with the tribes bordering the desert on the sides of Algeria and Mauritania, especially After the discovery of a number of wealth in the ground, such as oil and phosphates, whose prices were high, and the desert’s subsoil contains the largest phosphate mine in the world, and to remove Spain’s control from those wealth, which is a right of the Sahrawi citizen, but the Spanish side has begun working to dismantle the Sahrawi community from By bringing together a number of sheikhs and taking their loyalties and excluding those who resist Spain's policy in the desert, opening a number of councils and granting privileges to a number of those interested in dealing with them to facilitate the identification of fighters who are hiding in places far from the sight of the Spanish and French enemy in order to undermine the Liberation Army and its fighters.