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Rabat - Several Moroccan social activists and YouTube celebrities released a video on Tuesday calling upon the Moroccan government to declare three days of national mourning in the aftermath of the recent floods that claimed the lives of 47 people.
On Tuesday, a group of Moroccan YouTube celebrities, artists, columnists, and human rights activists released a video entitled “We are Moroccans, not Garbage”, in which they called for the national mourning of the floods-victims.
In the video, activists denounce what they call “the negligence’’ and “the shortcoming” of Moroccan officials, who “did not intervene in a timely manner in order to provide assistance to the flood-affected people.”
For them, it is "inconceivable that those officials did not take measures to aid these Moroccan citizens who have been treated with contempt."
One activist in the video says that the officials call us “citizens”, but treat us as “garbage.”
“It’s time to call for our rights and the rights of those who were killed due to in the flash floods. It’s time to call for the accountable officials held responsible and call for three days of national mourning to honor the people who died,” he concluded.
Reporting from Rabat by Aziz Allilou. Editing by Timothy Filla
