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Article: Morocco's Democratic Experience.
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- World Policy Journal
- Article date:
- March 22, 2000
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It was a low-key homecoming last November for the family of Morocco's best-known opposition leader, Mehdi Ben Barka, kidnapped by royal henchmen and presumably killed 35 years ago. Representatives of the new king, Mohammed VI, and the government were at the airport to greet Ben Barka's wife, daughter, three sons, and their families in what was described as a private visit. But there was no mobilization of political militants, and television cameras were excluded from the scene. There seemed to be an unspoken accord not to rock the boat of Morocco's delicately balanced political opening under the young monarch.
Before the gathering of some 200 of Ben Barka's ...
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