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Young Moroccans manifest themselves in favor of reforms in the health and education sectors in Rabat, Morocco.
“People want health and education”: death of eight pregnant reaction unprecedented in the country. Three people have died and it all started on the social network Discord.
The Apartisan Youth Group “Genz 212” at dawn the resignation of the Morocco government, after the sixth consecutive night of protests that require Best Health and Education Servicesmarked by two deaths.
“We demand the dissolution of the current government for the failure to protect the constitutional rights of Moroccans and to respond to their social demands,” the group said, which in a statement to the king of Morocco, Mohammed VI, also asked to open a “fair judicial process” to process corruption those responsible for corruption.
Spontaneous manifestations in various cities, unprecedented in Morocco, they began after Death of eight pregnant who were hospitalized for caesarean sections at Agadir Public Hospital in southern Morocco.
“The people want health and education”They shouted dozens of protesters shaking Moroccan flags on Thursday in the commercial neighborhood of Agdal, in the center of the capital Rabat, where the mobilization ended peacefully. Other peaceful protests occurred in Casablanca (West), Marrakech (Midwest) and Agadir, according to local press.
Prior to Thursday’s mobilization, Genz 212 emphasized that “rejects all forms of violence” and urged protesters to “respect the peaceful nature” of the movement. But on Wednesday, Three people died In the city of Laqliaa, in southern Morocco, and others were injured during an attempt to attack a police station. Moroccan authorities have announced that More than 350 people were injured During the protests. The Moroccan Association for Human Rights said that More than a thousand people were detainedincluding some pairon police arrested during live television interviews.
Mobilizations denounce corruption and criticize the funds attributed by the government to sports events – Including the organization of – in the face of the critical situation of education and health services and the unemployment rate in the country.
Among the requirements are the improvement of educational quality, the training and improvement of the working conditions of teachers, as well as the universality of health services coverage and the modernization of hospital centers. Access to affordable drugs is another of claims. In addition, young people require social and economic justice, equal opportunities, young job creation and small business support.
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres deplored these deaths and appealed to the Moroccan authorities to open a “rapid and impartial investigation.”
It all started on Discord. A government fell like this, last month
The demonstrations are instigated by the groups “Morocco Youth Voice” and “Genz 212”. The second, whose founders are unknown, has 150 thousand members On the social network Discord and presents itself as a group of “free young people” without political affiliation.
The situation reminds us of what happened last month, in Nepal, where the people, fed up with traditional politics that saw 14 governments in less than 20 years, went out to the street and lay down the government, strongly accused of corruption.
Hours later, Something unprecedented in democracy happened: the interim prime minister was through the social network Discordone by the government, earlier this month, in a movement that also censored access to Instagram, X, YouTube and other platforms, under the premise that they did not collaborate with justice in combating online abuse, namely fraud.
