From Swantje Boulouh-Bartschat, MA
Even two weeks after the first major protest in Morocco, there are few reports of the events in the country - and if so, they could hardly be more different.
After initial three-to five-figure information on the number of participants in the protests of 20 February is now a six-digit level in the interview. Far fewer people however, should have gone last weekend (from February 25 to 27) on the streets. While the international press - if any - of peaceful protests, the question is, where the police keep in the background, eyewitnesses and re video recordings on the Internet of the suppression of some protests by police intervention. Whether public or not restrained - the police behind their king and is targeted against the coordinators of the protests. This talk of defamation, including social networks, and the seizure of their computers. The Oussama Elkhlifi however, does not shrink. After the withdrawal of the two other founders, he is the sole Initiator of the group, to the protests of 20 had called in February via Facebook .
In a seven and a half-minute recording, entitled Who is Osama Elkhlifi ? expressed the 23-year-old at the start of the protest movement and the reactions of the police. Despite libel, in which it is shown, for example, an infidel and the threats of the police to him by his father - his sign Police Officer - looks were transmitted Elkhlifi no turning back. Despite a job offer for him and promotion prospects for his father Elkhlifi calls as well as numerous other protesters remain a Restriction of royal power, the improvement of social inequality and the implementation of press freedom. That the latter is still highly restricted, can be guessed, even in these days of the reports in the Moroccan press. It is already almost strongly emphasized, the king demanded to reformations, and the reports of peaceful demonstrations do not really about the images of angry demonstrators - surrounded by police with batons - fit.
One fact, however, can make it very clear: the protests of 20 February, it brought all the speeches: politicians of various parties in Morocco, many citizens of the country, which Report including in open letters and via YouTube videos speak or directly to Mohammed VI. , Business, and the king himself too highly the Arab music scene these days is not dumb. While in Tunisia, a song by the young rapper "El General" Hamada Ben Amor against the ousted despot Ben Ali was elected as a protest song, the Moroccan Najat Aatabou sings but also protest movement - but in the sense of Mohammed VI:
Long live. King / his hand in our hands / (Allah Allah) / we love him and he loves us :
addition accumulate on platforms such as Youtube and Facebook confessions loyalty to the king and critical voices against the protests. And one hears among the demonstrators in the streets once more, it is striking that even now, including the statements "We love our king!" And "We do not want to overthrow our king!" Are not uncommon. The love of "M6" There's just no getting small so easy.
Ayyuhâ l-Malik, nuhibbukâ matâlibunâ wa-hâdhihî!
(Oh king, we love you, and these are our demands!)
Meanwhile
the opinions differ with the view to the future development in the country. While the Moroccan press is mainly the image of an active or at least discuss the government, in which politicians call for the consideration of the wishes of the people, let European voices announced the possible imminence of a coup ... or the opposite. Leo Wieland, editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and author of M6-called critical articles, the country is stable, despite high youth unemployment, corruption and enormous wealth of the "king of the poor", which can be read off to the less obvious possessions.
In extension to the current events in Morocco.
After initial three-to five-figure information on the number of participants in the protests of 20 February is now a six-digit level in the interview. Far fewer people however, should have gone last weekend (from February 25 to 27) on the streets. While the international press - if any - of peaceful protests, the question is, where the police keep in the background, eyewitnesses and re video recordings on the Internet of the suppression of some protests by police intervention. Whether public or not restrained - the police behind their king and is targeted against the coordinators of the protests. This talk of defamation, including social networks, and the seizure of their computers. The Oussama Elkhlifi however, does not shrink. After the withdrawal of the two other founders, he is the sole Initiator of the group, to the protests of 20 had called in February via Facebook .
In a seven and a half-minute recording, entitled Who is Osama Elkhlifi ? expressed the 23-year-old at the start of the protest movement and the reactions of the police. Despite libel, in which it is shown, for example, an infidel and the threats of the police to him by his father - his sign Police Officer - looks were transmitted Elkhlifi no turning back. Despite a job offer for him and promotion prospects for his father Elkhlifi calls as well as numerous other protesters remain a Restriction of royal power, the improvement of social inequality and the implementation of press freedom. That the latter is still highly restricted, can be guessed, even in these days of the reports in the Moroccan press. It is already almost strongly emphasized, the king demanded to reformations, and the reports of peaceful demonstrations do not really about the images of angry demonstrators - surrounded by police with batons - fit.
One fact, however, can make it very clear: the protests of 20 February, it brought all the speeches: politicians of various parties in Morocco, many citizens of the country, which Report including in open letters and via YouTube videos speak or directly to Mohammed VI. , Business, and the king himself too highly the Arab music scene these days is not dumb. While in Tunisia, a song by the young rapper "El General" Hamada Ben Amor against the ousted despot Ben Ali was elected as a protest song, the Moroccan Najat Aatabou sings but also protest movement - but in the sense of Mohammed VI:
Long live. King / his hand in our hands / (Allah Allah) / we love him and he loves us :
addition accumulate on platforms such as Youtube and Facebook confessions loyalty to the king and critical voices against the protests. And one hears among the demonstrators in the streets once more, it is striking that even now, including the statements "We love our king!" And "We do not want to overthrow our king!" Are not uncommon. The love of "M6" There's just no getting small so easy.
(Oh king, we love you, and these are our demands!)
Meanwhile
the opinions differ with the view to the future development in the country. While the Moroccan press is mainly the image of an active or at least discuss the government, in which politicians call for the consideration of the wishes of the people, let European voices announced the possible imminence of a coup ... or the opposite. Leo Wieland, editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and author of M6-called critical articles, the country is stable, despite high youth unemployment, corruption and enormous wealth of the "king of the poor", which can be read off to the less obvious possessions.
"There are (.) Does not Palaces, racing stables, golf courses, painting and sports car collection, which make up the bulk of the assets of, M6 ', but his financial interest in everything that grows in Morocco. "It recognizes the achievements of Mohammed VI. aware of and takes security and the current exercise begun on changes in the form of subsidies for basic food and gas and the formation of a Council to reform of the 'social contract'. But Wieland also doubts that the steps of the king are sufficient. It remains to be seen not only the extent of popular devotion to the ruler of his people can actually get. After solidarity confessions the "Committee for the Liberation of Sebta and Melilla" to the movement of 20 February, the protests could - in addition to this weekend for the 20th March announced - take a new direction that would be of interest particularly for Spain, where the two cities are located in Morocco belong.
"The 'site Morocco has' already covered some good and habitable floors. But here and there, it's raining too hard through the roof "
In extension to the current events in Morocco.
- عن الإستثناء المغربي [On the Moroccan Exception] (jadaliyya.com / 04.03.2011)
- Moroccan monarch is a National Human Rights (AFP / 03.03.2011)
- Point de vue: La revolution est marocaine en marche! (lemonde.fr / 03.03.2011)
- Révolutions arabes: le Maroc est-il une exception? (lemonde.fr / 02.03.2011)
- Moroccan royal entrepreneur " (faz.net / 28.02.2011)
- no longer the cool King (faz.net / 26.02.2011)
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