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Morocco: three dead, hundreds arrested - youth sacrificed

Morocco is living through dark hours. Three demonstrators were killed in Lqliaa, near Agadir, after police opened fire. More than 400 people have been arrested, and hundreds injured. For several days, the country has been shaken by a historic protest led by Generation Z. Their crime? Their crime? Demanding health, education and dignity.

These mobilizations are neither spontaneous nor isolated. They are the fruit of years of inequality, betrayed promises and policies that sacrifice everyday life for the sake of prestige. The recent death of eight pregnant women in a hospital in Agadir was only the spark for a long-suppressed anger. In a country where schools are falling into ruin, hospitals resemble prisons and unemployment affects 35.8% of young people, revolt was inevitable.

Moroccan youth, connected, aware and organized, are rising up against a system that is suffocating them. Their slogans are clear: "The stadiums are here, but where are the hospitals? This cry, launched by Generation Z, sums up the gulf between a state obsessed with the 2030 World Cup and a population deprived of fundamental rights.

Faced with these legitimate demands, the authorities' response was brutal: violent dispersals, shootings, arbitrary arrests and systematic intimidation. Instead of opening a dialogue, the regime prefers to criminalize the protest and present youth as a threat. This repressive drift illustrates a power totally out of touch with its society.

Morocco is no exception. Everywhere in the region - in Tunisia, Egypt and elsewhere - the same causes are producing the same effects:

  • Growing social and regional inequalities.
  • Endemic corruption undermines the state.
  • Freedoms trampled underfoot in the name of "stability".
  • And always the same sacrifices: women, young people, precarious workers, marginalized populations.

This structural crisis is compounded by a political rift: normalization with Israel, imposed without popular debate, illustrates the profound divorce between regimes and their peoples.

We affirm:

  • Our total solidarity with the peaceful demonstrators and all those arrested.
  • Our absolute rejection of state repression and violence.
  • Our immediate demand for the release of the detainees and the opening of a genuine dialogue with young people.
  • Our firm belief that freedom of expression, the right to protest and social justice are the only pillars capable of averting collapse.

For there can be no democracy without dignity, no stability without justice, no future without freedom.

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