Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Sahrawi Territory

Authors

  • Juan Soroeta Liceras Lecturer in Public International Law. University of the Basque Country/Euskal Herriko Unibertstatea.

Keywords:

Wall, Self-Determination, Western Sahara, Law of Occupation, “Liberated territories”

Abstract

During the armed conflict waged from 1975 to 1991 between the Sahrawi and Moroccan armies, the occupying state built a wall that continues to be reinforced and has divided in two the territory of Western Sahara. This article analyses the legal consequences of the existence of the wall, and in particular of the fact that the POLISARIO Front still controls one third of the territory to the east of the wall, where the SADR exercises the powers that correspond to a state.

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Published

2019-12-31

Issue

Vol. 23 (2019)

Section

General Articles

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How to Cite

Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Sahrawi Territory. (2019). Spanish Yearbook of International Law, 23. https://www.sybil.es/sybil/article/view/271