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Now.

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I'm waiting for Mohammed
to finish cutting my hair.

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In Algiers?

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I'm leaving from here.

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I'm waiting for Brahim Salem
to get here.

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Where are you going?

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I'll be back shortly!

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Did you close the restaurant?

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This one?
- Yes.

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The back wall came off
in the heavy rain.

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Really, it came off?

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It was raining so hard.

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Nobody expected that much rain.

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So tell me,

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what are you doing now?

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The army.

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In which region?
- The third.

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Oh really, you're in my region?

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You work in very tough conditions.

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Yes, you can get blown
to bits at any moment.

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That's true.

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Haven't they raised the army salary?

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I'm not expecting them
to raise it any time soon.

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I am Mohamed Ould Saleh Ould Didi.

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I am a barber in

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the Saharawi refugee camps of Smara.

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In south-western Algeria.

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I was born in the refugee camps in 1980.

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We have lived in this arid desert
for forty years

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because of the Moroccan occupation
of our territories,

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the Western Sahara.

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The Saharawis used to be everywhere
in the Western Sahara.

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None of the land
was considered private property.

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If you lived in the south
and wanted to move to the north,

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you were completely free to do so.

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There was no State as such.

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There was an entity
called 'The Council of the 40'.

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'The Council of 40' came together
when there were problems.

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Drugs are a real problem.

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In El Aaiun, someone
gave him a bag.

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It had nearly half a kilo in it.

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Everybody was
very shocked by that story.

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Maybe they drugged him?

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It's a real problem with all the youths.

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The Moroccan's are behind all this.
- So many of the young do it.

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They harm themselves
and those around them.

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The Moroccans have been
working on this for a long time.

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Are they the source?

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They make the stuff and bring it here.

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They commercialise it in large quantities
and at ridiculously low prices.

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Apparently in Morocco, you get arrested
for drinking in the street.

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But they don't do anything
if they find drugs on you.

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In Algeria,
they don't bother you for drinking.

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But for arms trafficking or drugs
you get the death penalty.

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That's a good thing.

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That's very true.
- The prisons are overpopulated.

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The State shouldn't have to look after
those dangerous savages.

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The solution is to kill them.
- Yes, that's true.

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Laabbat! See if they're making tea.

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We have no problem
with the Moroccan people.

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There are Moroccan's who like us

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and with whom we share
a bond of brotherhood and friendship.

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We have a problem with
the Moroccan government.

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The problem is the Moroccan government's
expansionist ambitions.

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They want to create a Moroccan empire

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that includes the Western Sahara,
Mauritania, Senegal...

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Expansionist ambitions

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that Moroccan kings
have inherited from father to son.

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Life in the camps is hard.

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We depend exclusively
on humanitarian aid

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for everything we need.

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Hello, El Ghalia.

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I need you to sign here.

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For the things you've received.

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Here.

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If we were free
we wouldn't need help.

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An independent country
can use its natural resources.

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It's inevitable that a country
that isn't independent needs help.

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Can you sign for your group?

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It's the occupation that is the hardest
because you have no land.

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Even if you manage to achieve something
it's condemned to disappear.

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It won't be there for future generations.

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Are you still in the same place?
- Yes.

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It's too close to the stables.

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It's going to make all of you sick.

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Nobody can live
with that smell of excrement.

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It's bad for the kids.
- They don't play near there.

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The worst thing

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is that if someone does get sick

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you can't afford to get them treated.

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I have an important
question for you.

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How many prayers are there?

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Five.

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And they are?

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Dawn.
- Yes.

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Midday, afternoon, sundown and night.

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Do they teach you
the geography of our nation?

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Yes, yes.

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So, where is the Western Sahara?

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To the east...

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Eastern Africa?

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Eastern Africa?
- Yes.

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Which countries surround it?

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Surround it?
- Yes, surround it.

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Algeria, Morocco, Mauritania
and that's all.

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What are its natural resources?

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Phosphates...

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Fish...

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That's all.
- There's an important one you missed.

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Which one?
- Think!

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Isn't there any gold?
- I don't know.

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Didn't they teach you that in class?
- No.

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Before the war,
I lived the life of a Bedouin.

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I stayed in the desert until the
living conditions became too difficult.

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You can shave it all off.
- Everything?

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Yes, take it all off.

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I left the desert and moved
to the town of El Aaiun to find work.

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It was at work that I was contacted
by militants for the cause.

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They made me understand
that Spain was stealing our riches.

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I was part of a group
of around fifteen men.

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We would fix very big nails

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into planks of wood.

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Then we buried them like land mines.

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They punctured the tires
of their passing trucks.

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That was just one of the
sabotage operations we carried out.

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That's how we joined
the resistance movement in 1975.

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The war is complicated.

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The war has its rules.

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And an oath.

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We all made a secret oath
of absolute loyalty.

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When your comrade in arms falls
next to you in the battlefield

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and you have to pick up scattered pieces
of his body and bury them in the sand

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then you cannot betray him.

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You cannot turn your back and give up.

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Of course they did that to him
because of his activism.

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What's his name?

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Mohamed 'El Corto'.

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He uses crutches, he's small.
- Ah, yes, OK.

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He beat up a Moroccan.
One day, he was sleeping...

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At the start of the popular revolt,

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when people began
to rid themselves of the fear.

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The Moroccans found out he
was taking part in the demonstrations.

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One day, while he was sleeping,
a Moroccan came.

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He cut off his leg, from the knee down.

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He's been handicapped since.
- Boulahi, who lives in Aousserd?

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Saïd.
- Mohamed Ould Saïd, also called Boulahi.

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Yes, he's my uncle.

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Mohamed Ould Saïd, I know him.

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I know him, he was with me in Smara.
- Yes, he was in Smara.

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Some time ago...

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I spent 8 months alone in the desert.

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I stepped on a land mine.
It messed up one of my legs.

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I have 5 fragments in my knee
and 2 in the sole of my foot.

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The land mines scattered around
the Western Sahara are terrible.

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They kill people every day.
They kill goats and anything that moves.

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Someone in the
second military region told me...

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He had goats near to the wall.

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He told me that when the Moroccans
heard an explosion...

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He was close enough to the wall to hear.

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He said he could hear them laugh
when they heard an explosion.

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The Moroccan soldiers on the wall?
- Yes.

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They couldn't stop laughing.

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You have to ask yourself,
what's the difference with Palestine?

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Sweden has recognised Palestine.
No problem.

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Sweden hasn't recognised Palestine yet.
- Yes, they've officially recognised it.

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An independent country?
- Yes, independent.

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Really, independent!?

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That's a serious challenge to Israel.

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You can't compare Israel to Morocco.

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Morocco has built a 2400km wall.

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That wall divides my country in two.

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One part is the free zone,
the other part, the occupied zones.

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Let the Martyr rest in Peace!
- We will continue the struggle!

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Morocco out, out!

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The Sahara will be free!

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We will continue the struggle!

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However strong the aggressor!
- We are a people who never die!

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Let the Martyr rest in Peace!
- We will continue the struggle!

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Where there's barbed wire,
there are land mines everywhere.

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Even beyond the barbed wire.

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My family are in the occupied territories,
about 100km from here.

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And I can't even be with my family.

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All because of this wall.

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Go! Go! Go!
- To hell with the king!

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Get out of our country!

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Morocco has no rights over the Sahara.

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But when is the world

00:19:10.015 --> 00:19:15.295
going to find a solution to this problem,
or admit that Morocco is being inflexible

00:19:15.455 --> 00:19:18.615
and refuses any solutions
to the Saharan question?

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All we want is our land.
And we don't want to share it with anyone.

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We want the choice of sharing it
with whoever we want.

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But it has to be our choice.

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Drive! Drive!

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Mohammed, pull!

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Stop! Stop!

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Are you good?
- Yes, thanks.

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How are you?
- Good, thanks to God.

00:20:02.615 --> 00:20:05.015
Are you good?
- Yes, thanks.

00:20:05.175 --> 00:20:06.135
How are you?

00:20:06.615 --> 00:20:08.015
Good, thanks to God.

00:20:08.175 --> 00:20:09.935
Are you good?
- Yes, thanks.

00:20:10.095 --> 00:20:12.095
How are you?
- Good, thanks to God.

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Are you here for the boy's hair?
- Yes, he needs a cut.

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So, how are you?
- Good, thanks to God.

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Are you good?
- Yes, thanks.

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You can go at him with the clippers!

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The way it is now,
I need a whole cistern to wash his hair.

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He looks like an African's son.

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What's up?
- I'm good.

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Are you good?
- I'm good, thanks to God.

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Thanks to God.
Everything is good.

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You can go, I'll take care of it.

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Shave it all off. All of it!

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Fashion and all that, that can come later.

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Not now?
- Not as long as I make the decisions.

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When he finishes school?

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That's another story. But right now...

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I want you to shave it to zero.

00:21:04.495 --> 00:21:06.415
I went to see Castro for treatment.

00:21:06.575 --> 00:21:08.255
For treatment? What's wrong?

00:21:08.415 --> 00:21:11.295
I was bitten by a dog.
- You were bitten by a dog?

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What?
- A dog bit me.

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Where did he bite you?
- The foot.

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He's still alive.
That night seven of us got bitten.

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We were having a bike race.
- He bit all of you?

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All of us!

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That's not a dog!
- It's a jackal!

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You can't be serious!

00:21:52.535 --> 00:21:55.215
Look who's turned up!

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Have you just woken up?

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Have you just woken up or something?

00:22:00.775 --> 00:22:02.335
Nearly.

00:22:02.495 --> 00:22:04.135
Pretty much.

00:22:11.495 --> 00:22:15.375
Last night, I went to see Ayoub,
but no one was there.

00:22:15.535 --> 00:22:18.295
Anyway, he can't cut hair.

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And the only barbers are you,
Aziz and that other guy.

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The only solution to the Saharawi conflict
is independence.

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That will only be achieved
with weapons.

00:22:35.135 --> 00:22:38.015
The waiting and delays
have lasted so long.

00:22:38.335 --> 00:22:45.015
After 40 years, it's obvious
that war is the only alternative.

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Our authorities need to
prepare for a long war with Morocco.

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The peaceful route has led to nothing.

00:23:00.055 --> 00:23:02.655
Morocco does nothing but
delay the process.

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In the mean time,
they strengthen their army

00:23:06.455 --> 00:23:08.855
and they strengthen that defensive wall.

00:23:11.775 --> 00:23:14.255
Our first objective
has to be their territories...

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Attacking Rabat, Marrakech...

00:23:16.855 --> 00:23:19.255
So they feel it
in the pit of their stomachs.

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If the war limits itself to the wall,
they'll stay there forever.

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In truth, the war isn't over yet.

00:23:35.295 --> 00:23:39.615
As veterans of the conflict

00:23:39.815 --> 00:23:46.415
we are proud of the next generation's
will to liberate our country.

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But as long as a possible solution
remains in the hands of the UN

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we will have to be patient
and pursue our efforts.

00:24:08.815 --> 00:24:12.335
My advice is that you remain united.

00:24:14.295 --> 00:24:17.735
Keep the cohesion between you.

00:24:19.295 --> 00:24:22.015
Watch over the union of the people.

00:24:23.255 --> 00:24:29.615
Because they have arrived at a state
of real unity.

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War...

00:24:44.015 --> 00:24:45.695
is war.

00:24:46.055 --> 00:24:47.975
War does no good.

00:24:48.375 --> 00:24:50.775
War brings only destruction.

00:24:51.135 --> 00:24:56.935
People die, people suffer,
and people kill each other.

00:24:58.455 --> 00:25:02.135
Things will always be tense in the region.

00:25:02.815 --> 00:25:07.455
However, the peaceful route...

00:25:07.935 --> 00:25:09.815
If we achieve it through politics...

00:25:10.055 --> 00:25:14.775
The peaceful route will allow everyone
to go home happy,

00:25:15.695 --> 00:25:19.295
with no bitterness and no resentment.

00:25:19.455 --> 00:25:22.375
Then, everything will fall into place.

00:25:23.375 --> 00:25:24.855
There.

00:25:35.335 --> 00:25:36.815
Now he's saying "Brrrr" !

00:25:37.615 --> 00:25:40.015
It's done, all over. All done. All done.

00:25:40.175 --> 00:25:41.055
Calm down.

00:25:43.415 --> 00:25:48.335
Those are big tears.
He's really angry.