Morocco is a colonizing power and is grateful to the Spanish and French settlers for helping it control the territory that until the beginning of the 20th century they had difficulty controlling. By maintaining these practices, it is using the same mechanisms it once criticized. With the withdrawal of MINURSO, Morocco has a free hand to implement the rest of its colonization programs with impunity, but it also marks the end of a peaceful way to resolve this conflict, and the consequences for the region could be catastrophic..

Morocco is a colonizing power and is grateful to the Spanish and French settlers for helping it control the territory that until the beginning of the 20th century they had difficulty controlling. By maintaining these practices, it is using the same mechanisms it once criticized. With the withdrawal of MINURSO, Morocco has a free hand to implement the rest of its colonization programs with impunity, but it also marks the end of a peaceful way to resolve this conflict, and the consequences for the region could be catastrophic..