“Harraga”… The Moroccan Makhzen’s Weapon for Blackmail in the Sahrawi Issue

The Moroccan Makhzen regime continues to use irregular migration as a weapon for political blackmail, directing thousands of migrants towards Spain whenever it wants to exert pressure to extract concessions, especially in the issue of Western Sahara, in complete disregard  for international laws and a clear disdain for international norms and conventions.
In this context, Sahrawi writer and political analyst, Taleb Ali Salem, said in an interview with the Spanish newspaper “La Gaceta” that Morocco does not deal with migration as a social phenomenon that requires treatment, but rather employs it as a hybrid weapon in its political battles, replacing the logic of regional cooperation with a policy of threat and intimidation.

He added that “the Moroccan regime uses the migration card to create crises when it fails to extract concessions through official channels,” pointing out that these practices confirm that this regime “does not hesitate to traffic in human beings as bargaining tools” and that what is happening “is not a momentary event, but part of an integrated strategy adopted by the Makhzen for decades, based on transforming human suffering into a diplomatic pressure card.”

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