By: civil society activist in
occupied Dakhla, Western Sahara
In an attempt to find whatever alibis to justify its planned drilling operations in occupied Western Sahara, Kosmos Energy, an American-based Oil Company, is conducting these days a series of meetings in the occupied cities guided and supervised by Morocco authority and orchestrated by its intelligence services.
A Kosmos Energy delegation organized several meetings in Dakhla city, south Western Sahara on September 23rd and 24th, 2014 with many Moroccan officials and representatives of pro-Moroccan civil society on the basis that they represent the Saharawi population there. At the same time, many peaceful protests and demonstrations focusing on socio-economic and political rights were banned and heinously oppressed. The American oil company had all these meetings with fake local civil society representatives that were in fact a Moroccan creation. They were made and tailored according to their loyalty to Morocco colonial state policy.
Oddly enough, the Kosmos Energy delegation held its meeting with these representatives that some of them are even former smugglers who served jail terms as they were caught red handed while conducting their activities in international organized crime. Some others are known to be drug dealers and contraband gang member while others are still under judicial law suit for providing checks without balance, in addition to some other Saharawi ignorants and illiterates. Other attendees are not even Saharawis and have nothing to do with the local population and are mainly Moroccan informers.
We are all wondering: What is Kosmos Energy doing?
The Saharawi people, living under the brutal yoke of the Moroccan occupation and their exiled relatives living in Algerian refugee camps, oppose Kosmos’ plans and call for its immediate withdrawal. Kosmos Energy’s oil prospects in occupied Western Sahara remain totally unlawful and morally unethical.