The Number One Ladies’ Landmine Agency
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2018
⏱️ 27 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | In today's program, we're deep in Western Sahara, on the frontline of the conflict between Morocco and the Polisario Liberation Movement. |
| 0:10.0 | That represents the ethnic Sahari movement. |
| 0:13.0 | I believe and born in Sahara with a refugee camp south west of Algeria. |
| 0:19.0 | In today's program, we're deep in Western Sahara, on the frontline of the conflict between Morocco and the Polisario Liberation Movement. |
| 0:28.0 | That represents the ethnic Sahari people for whom this land is home. |
| 0:33.0 | We are standing on the world the longest minefield. |
| 0:37.0 | It is a 2700 kilometer long sand wall or berm. |
| 0:42.0 | The Moroccan army began to build the wall in 1981 to divide our country, the Sahara Arab Democratic Republic. |
| 0:50.0 | We call it the wall of shame and it's continued more than 7 million land mines. |
| 0:56.0 | It has killed many Saharawis and caused a lot of innocent lives. |
| 1:03.0 | The Moroccan army are guarding this wall and keep updating it with mines. |
| 1:08.0 | You can see even from here, divided Western Sahara through the free land where we stand now and the parts that Morocco have stolen from us, they occupied territory. |
| 1:18.0 | Three, two, one, fire! |
| 1:26.0 | That explosion was an anti-tank mine being blown up by Minotus colleagues. |
| 1:32.0 | When the Spanish colonialists left in 1975, we thought that we are going to have our freedom back. |
| 1:39.0 | Morocco and Mauritania invaded our land. |
| 1:42.0 | We have been fighting for our independence for the last 45 years. Nobody knows that we are here. |
| 1:49.0 | We are the most forgotten conflict in the world. |
| 1:54.0 | Funded by Norwegian people's aid and the Serali mine action committee, Minotu and her unique team are on a mission. |
| 2:04.0 | We are 10 women working and our mission is to clear Western Sahara of land mines, bombs and mortars. |
| 2:11.0 | You could call us the number one ladies land mine agency. |
| 2:15.0 | We can really be seen as breaking a lot of stereotypes around Muslims and Arabs, especially the social, cultural and religious stereotypes of the veiled, subjugated Arab woman. |
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