The screening of a film on the situation of the Sahrawi refugees, as part of the Festival of Liberties in Brussels, allowed to raise awareness about the difficult reality and situation in which the Sahrawi people live in the refugee camps and occupied territories, said the Belgian Committee of Support to Sahrawi People.
It is a film by Javier Bardem entitled “Les enfants des nuages, la dernière colonie » (Sons of the clouds, the last colony), screened at the initiative of the Belgian Committee of Support to Sahrawi People, on October 17 as part of the Festival of Liberties of Brussels, an event which takes place every year to shed light on currents issues, with this time, a particular focus on the issue of the occupation of Western Sahara.
The Belgian Committee of Support to Sahrawi People organized, on this occasion, a conference debate preceded by the screening of the film in a packed movie theatre where hundreds of people were able, during two hours, to discover the difficult reality and situation in which the Sahrawi people live in the refugee camps and occupied territories.
The audience raised several questions in relation with the living conditions in the occupied Sahrawi territories, the silence of media in Europe on this African last colony, the legality of the agreements signed by some European countries and the European Union, particularly the fisheries agreement or some agreements which help plundering the natural resources of the Sahrawi people in defiance of the international law, according to the source.