Second Sahrawi Intifada

Independence Intifada
Part of Western Sahara conflict
Date21 May – 14 December 2005
Location
Caused byTransfer of a Sahrawi prisoner from El Aaiun to Agadir
Goals
  • Independence of Western Sahara
  • Respect of human rights
Methods
Resulted inSahrawi failure to gain independence[1][2]
Parties
Number
Hundreds[citation needed]
Casualties and losses

The Independence Intifada[1] or the Second Sahrawi Intifada (intifada is Arabic for "uprising") and also May Intifada[3] is a Sahrawi activist term for a series of disturbances, demonstrations and riots that broke out in May 2005 [citation needed] in the Moroccan-controlled parts of Western Sahara and south of Morocco. This event has also been called The El-Aaiun Intifada by the same sources.[citation needed]

  1. ^ Sahara, Western. "Sahrawis campaign for independence in the second intifada, Western Sahara, 2005-2008". Global Nonviolent Action Database. Elliana Bisgaard-Church.
  2. ^ sahara, Western (2010). "Sovereignty on Borrowed Territory: Sahrawi Identity in Algeria". Georgetown Journal of International Affairs. 11 (2). Randa Farah: 59–66. JSTOR 43133843.
  3. ^ Western Sahara Between Autonomy and Intifada