Talk:Smara

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Edits[edit]

These sentences were removed from the article for the reasons explained hereafter:

"sparking an exodus of Sahrawis towards Algeria to escape Moroccan retribution for their part in the revolt": This sentence if true would mean that Smara either became empty of its original population, or that those who stayed faced retribution and were massacred by Moroccan forces. Neither is true. So that sentence is pure political POV.
"On the way to Algeria the Moroccan airforce napalmed the refugees; Amnesty International has estimated the casualites at almost 530": what is the material evidence of this allegation?. Are there any photos of the hundreds of deaths or is there any video footage?. What is the reference to Amnesty and if found, where did they got that figure?, What happened to the dead bodies and body parts? were are the graves or mass graves?.

--A Jalil 22:41, 21 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Removing ahistorical political language[edit]

Reading this over there seems to be an ahistorical move to differentiate between Sahara pops and the artisans of Hassan I - it would seem to me to be sufficient to say "locals and artisans sent by Hassan I" unless there is some clear demographic repartition. Further, what is the point of the long footnote on refugee camps, which repeats information in the main article? (collounsbury (talk) 13:08, 8 October 2008 (UTC))[reply]

ARC report[edit]

I've been unable to locate the ARC report mentioned in footnote 4. If someone can track this down, we should improve the reference, if not we should remove the footnote.--SPhilbrick (Talk) 23:50, 3 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]