This is one of a collection of seven short stories from inside the Moroccan Occupied Territory. These are ordinary Sahrawi people who responded to Konstantina Isidoros’ request for every-day examples of the difficulty of living under an occupying power. She has retained their anonymity.

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A sheikh called Ahmed Lashin was exercising one morning on a street near a residential area called the quarter of Moulay Rachid. While running near the middle of the road a person riding a motorcycle hit him. He went into unconciousness.

He was taken to the hospital and spent a week bedridden after regaining consciousness. Then he was transferred to his home after the city's main hospital said it was an ordinary accident.

After two days Sheikh felt better but then entered a further stage of coma. His family moved him to the Moroccan city of Agadir but he died after his arrival to the hospital because they discovered he had internal bleeding and the local hospital in the city in which he was afflicted exercises racism against indigenous people, so they did not pay any attention to the health of the Sheikh, resulting in his death.

The person who collided with the Sheikh was a soldier and he still has not been arrested because the police have not taken the necessary actions towards this issue. This example represents a fraction of rights of the Sahrawi being overridden in the dealings of the state and its foundations with this man.

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