Morocco: A Decade with Mohammed VI

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	Morocco: A Decade with Mohammed VI

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7-27-2009 10:05 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/6180078d-bcbb-40df-993a-56fa0e5a90b9/4DF07DFA-6000-48D2-B293-A7D2BC05C581/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/07/24/morocco-a-decade-with-mohammed-vi/" href="http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/07/24/morocco-a-decade-with-mohammed-vi/" style="font-size: 11px;">globalvoicesonline.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/07/24/morocco-a-decade-with-mohammed-vi/">When in July 1999, king Mohammed VI of Morocco - a man with a purported reputation of benevolence, empathy for his people and compassion for the poor- ascended to the throne, the expectations for change and progress were such that many international observers foresaw an albeit difficult but inexorable march that would lead the country to a prosperous, liberal and democratic future</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/07/24/morocco-a-decade-with-mohammed-vi/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/globalvoicesonline.org/img/C8820157-F7C0-45D3-8141-4F656D503AA9" alt="ten-moroccan-years" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/07/24/morocco-a-decade-with-mohammed-vi/">Ten years later, the dominant feeling is that of a missed opportunity, a departure from past official rhetoric and a steady backtrack</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/07/24/morocco-a-decade-with-mohammed-vi/">Sir;
Our words are hunted, our phrases crucified, our thoughts shackled by so-called red lines, our writings ridiculed, our dailies, weeklies and magazines dragged to courts.
Many of our colleagues have experienced imprisonment and even, in some cases, torture. We have all become indeed “prisoners,” with a suspended sentence.
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