What are the walls?
The walls are a gigantic building well-fortified, mined and guarded by a powerful army of more than 160,000 troops, hundreds of tanks, millions of mines, barbed wire and other military obstacles.
These walls were built by the Moroccan army in the Saharawi territories militarily occupied by it since 1975, basic aim expansionist ideas, and the forcible possession of lands that have always been outside, in addition to realizing the fait accompli . The occupation force. But these walls today represent a real violation of the most basic rights of people and a clear affront to international law.
When did the walls?
With the departure of Spain's territory in 1795 began to wage a war that pitted the Polisario Front with its neighbors to the north and south: Morocco, which invaded the territory in the north - and Mauritania, who did the same from the south - In 1979, Mauritania, on the verge of bankruptcy, makes peace with the Polisario and renounces its claim over the territory, act improperly seized by Morocco to expand their occupation of all Saharawi territories. This act was condemned by the Polisario time as well as international bodies.
The Polisario intensified their attacks in self defense, the Alawite kingdom was on the verge of chaos, thus, the Moroccan army after being thwarted in all their tactics aimed at occupying the Western Sahara is forced to look for a "magic solution" from their point of view. Hassan II on an assessment of the politico-military conflict again commits another supposed solution as a last resort, this was the creation of criminals "wall of shame". How, when and where they came up first.
The preparations and the beginning.
A task force named Larak and organized by Colonel Ben Othman, who had come down from central Morocco, took place in southern Abattih Tantan in August 1980 and headed Janfra Ras, a hill overlooking the vast plain between the mountains of Zini and Smara amazing with a mission: to protect the builders of a giant ring-shaped wall to defend the Sahara of past defeats ... Clear the field and with tens of thousands of soldiers defending hundreds of excavators, bulldozers, squads of sappers and engineers began to erect a barrier that months before seemed a preposterous fiction but it certainly came true in our day and causing grief remains and countless desolation and despair.
After staggered constructions in six tranches, the great wall was finally closed in April 1987 ring, with his arrival to the Atlantic Ocean by war. The Pharaonic work closely so the Western Sahara.
Some observers emphasize that it was unprecedented for a similar work, while engineers, sappers and giant bulldozers worked day and night, while forty thousand soldiers guarding the site. Rather than its technical complexity, the construction was a challenge because of its size.
What are their military objectives?
According to the Moroccan version:
• Depriving the Saharawi fighters closer to the cities.
• Protect the cra Bu deposits as well as fishing resources.
• Create a concentration of forces on each covering one unit to another.
• Robbing the Sahrawi the element of surprise due to the use of sophisticated means of detection, such as radar and other obstacles such as, fences, stone walls and sand, among others.
• Hindering any offensive Sahara, at the same time provide opportunities for appropriate response.
• The creation of these walls will lead to many forces and Saharawi agglomerating means for opening step. Structure and composition Structure: four or five kilometers a campaign is deployed, usually of infantry (about 100 men), each of these units makes a section (30-40 men).
These units are usually of infantry and can also find other weapons such as paratroopers or other commands. Every 15 km radar data provided kick to the artillery batteries, ahead are minefields, barbed wire ...
The walls are composed of:
• The walls of sand are some walls built steadily throughout the device "defensive" Moroccan, they become in parts of seven, one after another. Has a height of three meters.
• The wall of stones: these walls first appeared on May 2, 1987 after the sand could not prevent the passage of the Saharan. Its role is to reinforce the walls above. The height of this wall is 80 cm and may reach 1m.su role is to reinforce the spaces between the units.
• The wire: they are in front of the whole Moroccan wall mainly off the support points (PA) and compared with observation points (OPs). It is a high wire and sometimes reach up to 12 strands of wire.
• The anti-tank trenches: they dug for the purpose of impeding the advance of tanks and other vehicles of the enemy, these excavations are on the (PA) the (PO) and hidden among the stone walls.
They usually have a depth of 1m to 1.5m long and can measure from 1.5 to 2 meters. Explosive Obstacles:
Minefields.
They settled at first in front of the front edge of the wall up sometimes at a distance of 1.5 km in parts.
The whole front wall is covered by minefields and antitank mines, which do not differentiate between who puts his foot on these causes, and over every year hundreds of victims, usually innocent people, plus the fear and panic frequently cause.
These mines are also often on the flanks and in the depth of entrenched units. On this wall can be found all known minefields as designated tactics, in addition to this, thousands of these mines have incorporated an anti-lifting device, (For more information see the danger of mines).
The radar detection system:
Basically the radar detection system is considered a linchpin in the system "wall" as they are installed along it, to report any approach people or cars.
The Moroccan army uses a range of sophisticated radar that can detect the presence day or night a person up to a distance of 30 km and 60 km vehicle
More radars used by the Moroccan army are the Stentor, the Ratac Rasit and the addition of powerful radar Westinghouse according to some sources cover the entire territory of Western Sahara.
With the departure of Spain's territory in 1795 began to wage a war that pitted the Polisario Front with its neighbors to the north and south: Morocco, which invaded the territory in the north - and Mauritania, who did the same from the south - In 1979, Mauritania, on the verge of bankruptcy, makes peace with the Polisario and renounces its claim over the territory, act improperly seized by Morocco to expand their occupation of all Saharawi territories. This act was condemned by the Polisario time as well as international bodies.
The Polisario intensified their attacks in self defense, the Alawite kingdom was on the verge of chaos, thus, the Moroccan army after being thwarted in all their tactics aimed at occupying the Western Sahara is forced to look for a "magic solution" from their point of view. Hassan II on an assessment of the politico-military conflict again commits another supposed solution as a last resort, this was the creation of criminals "wall of shame". How, when and where they came up first.
The preparations and the beginning.
A task force named Larak and organized by Colonel Ben Othman, who had come down from central Morocco, took place in southern Abattih Tantan in August 1980 and headed Janfra Ras, a hill overlooking the vast plain between the mountains of Zini and Smara amazing with a mission: to protect the builders of a giant ring-shaped wall to defend the Sahara of past defeats ... Clear the field and with tens of thousands of soldiers defending hundreds of excavators, bulldozers, squads of sappers and engineers began to erect a barrier that months before seemed a preposterous fiction but it certainly came true in our day and causing grief remains and countless desolation and despair.
After staggered constructions in six tranches, the great wall was finally closed in April 1987 ring, with his arrival to the Atlantic Ocean by war. The Pharaonic work closely so the Western Sahara.
Some observers emphasize that it was unprecedented for a similar work, while engineers, sappers and giant bulldozers worked day and night, while forty thousand soldiers guarding the site. Rather than its technical complexity, the construction was a challenge because of its size.
What are their military objectives?
According to the Moroccan version:
• Depriving the Saharawi fighters closer to the cities.
• Protect the cra Bu deposits as well as fishing resources.
• Create a concentration of forces on each covering one unit to another.
• Robbing the Sahrawi the element of surprise due to the use of sophisticated means of detection, such as radar and other obstacles such as, fences, stone walls and sand, among others.
• Hindering any offensive Sahara, at the same time provide opportunities for appropriate response.
• The creation of these walls will lead to many forces and Saharawi agglomerating means for opening step. Structure and composition Structure: four or five kilometers a campaign is deployed, usually of infantry (about 100 men), each of these units makes a section (30-40 men).
These units are usually of infantry and can also find other weapons such as paratroopers or other commands. Every 15 km radar data provided kick to the artillery batteries, ahead are minefields, barbed wire ...
The walls are composed of:
• The walls of sand are some walls built steadily throughout the device "defensive" Moroccan, they become in parts of seven, one after another. Has a height of three meters.
• The wall of stones: these walls first appeared on May 2, 1987 after the sand could not prevent the passage of the Saharan. Its role is to reinforce the walls above. The height of this wall is 80 cm and may reach 1m.su role is to reinforce the spaces between the units.
• The wire: they are in front of the whole Moroccan wall mainly off the support points (PA) and compared with observation points (OPs). It is a high wire and sometimes reach up to 12 strands of wire.
• The anti-tank trenches: they dug for the purpose of impeding the advance of tanks and other vehicles of the enemy, these excavations are on the (PA) the (PO) and hidden among the stone walls.
They usually have a depth of 1m to 1.5m long and can measure from 1.5 to 2 meters. Explosive Obstacles:
Minefields.
They settled at first in front of the front edge of the wall up sometimes at a distance of 1.5 km in parts.
The whole front wall is covered by minefields and antitank mines, which do not differentiate between who puts his foot on these causes, and over every year hundreds of victims, usually innocent people, plus the fear and panic frequently cause.
These mines are also often on the flanks and in the depth of entrenched units. On this wall can be found all known minefields as designated tactics, in addition to this, thousands of these mines have incorporated an anti-lifting device, (For more information see the danger of mines).
The radar detection system:
Basically the radar detection system is considered a linchpin in the system "wall" as they are installed along it, to report any approach people or cars.
The Moroccan army uses a range of sophisticated radar that can detect the presence day or night a person up to a distance of 30 km and 60 km vehicle
More radars used by the Moroccan army are the Stentor, the Ratac Rasit and the addition of powerful radar Westinghouse according to some sources cover the entire territory of Western Sahara.
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