Celebration of the 66th Anniversary of Morocco’s Independence Day
Thursday marks the 66th anniversary of the independence of the Kingdom of Morocco from the French and Spanish colonies.
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Every year on November 18, the Kingdom of Morocco commemorates its independence, during which the struggles of the Moroccan people, led by Sultan Mohammed V, drove out the French and Spanish colonists in 1956.
It is a shining memory in the history of the Kingdom of Morocco, added to several stations, which embody the victories of the people and the throne, to build a modern State, on the basis of institutions, in full respect for the right and the law.
It was a long battle in which the people of the country stood side by side with their wise leadership, which refused to submit to the occupation authorities and struggled alongside the people of the country until independence and unity prevailed throughout the country.
Morocco’s independence did not come out of a vacuum, but after a series of militant stations, from the people as well as from Sultan Mohammed V.
On April 9, 1947, Mohammed V traveled to the then under international guardianship in the city of Tangier, from where he gave his historic speech in which he affirmed the attachment of Morocco, the King and the people, to the freedom of the nation and its territorial integrity, and to its identity and identity.
Sultan Muhammad V’s support for the sons of the resistance, and his defiance of the colonial authorities, put him in direct tension with the French authorities at the time, which reached the point of exile and his family outside the country, and the appointment of a formal sultan under their authority.
The French move was the trigger for the revolution of the King and the people, which was the actual beginning of the end of colonialism.
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After two years of exile, the strong will of the Moroccan nation triumphed, and the colonialist schemes collapsed, bringing the royal family back from exile in 1955. The dawn of freedom and independence dawned, as the late King Mohammed V, upon his return from exile, heralded the end of the French guardianship and protection system.