In Dajla’s sunny coast a hidden story of colonial expansion manifests through seemingly harmless tourism activities. Investigative reporter José Carmona from El Público delivered a pioneering analysis which shows Morocco uses tourist activities as an advanced mechanism to dominate Western Sahara while destroying its cultural heritage.
Dajla’s appealing tourist attractions including inexpensive travel and outdoor activities and water sports operations mask that its organized human rights violations abuse continues. Through deliberate façade-making Dajla functions as a resort town while the Moroccan regime actively conceals from the world their suppression of Sahrawi people’s human rights.
Infrastructure expansion alongside tourist marketing operates covertly as Arab territory acquisition tactics in motivational geopolitical master strategy. The creation of modern fishing ports and luxury accommodations along with orchestrated visitor programs functions as political tools to make Morocco’s occupation of disputed territory seem official and legitimate.
According to Abdulah Arabi of the Polisario Front in Spain, this system represents a “global strategy to fulfill objectives which legal frameworks obstruct.” Morocco intends to utilize territory integration as a way to evade international rules which support Western Sahara’s right to choose its political direction.
This approach generates severe and individualized consequences for people alike. Through their experience, the families of disappeared activists demonstrate the brutal force that violates the artificial tourist attraction. One activist revealed the devastating reality of the Morocco-created tourist illusion through painful words “My brother has been missing for two years; he must be dead.”
The occupation depends on international complicity being recognized as a fundamental aspect of these actions. Tourists enjoy carefully arranged experiences at Sahrawi territory while the people of Sahrawi face brutal segregation accompanied by forced disappearances and authorized state violence. By taking no action the international community helps create legal backing for Morocco’s unlawful government actions which continue at present.
United Nations resolutions establish Western Sahara’s right to decide its own future while specifically condemning all unauthorized extraction of resources. Remarkably these legal pronouncements fail to counter Morocco’s ongoing aggressive territorial expansion.
Dajla functions today as a frightening example of current colonization methods because it offers amusement services among intense human mistreatment. Tourist spending alongside resort development might create a system that defies human rights while granting passive acceptance of territorial robbery.
Tourists basking under the sun in men-made beachfront ignore the Sahrawi people who fight persistently for their identity and human rights while they are hidden from sight through Morocco’s well-planned tourist strategy.