Somewhere in the vicinity of twenty thousand or so legitimately denominated Sahrawi refugees and probably a roughly equal number of lost and neglected (mostly) Sahrawi souls who are not. Not actually refugees, that is. More on those numbers in a moment.
In his historic speech, November 6, commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Green March when 350 thousand unarmed Moroccans calmly marched into the Sahara to reassert the Kingdom's historical sovereignty over its previous Spanish colonial masters, King Mohamed VI took the occasion to address a few words to their Algerian and Polisario jailors.
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