Morocco Threatens Independence Seekers

The Daily Star reports that Moroccan King Muhammad VI has called for action against traitors who threatened the country’s “territorial integrity,” a direct warning to Western Sahara independence campaigners. Morocco is currently offering the territory limited autonomy, but the Algerian backed Polisarios are holding out for a referendum offering independence. In a speech on Friday the king asked, “would any democratic country accept the use of democracy and human rights as a pretext … for a gang of outlaws to plot, in intelligence with its enemies, against its unity and higher interests?”