The U.N. Security Council has rejected a plea to investigate the Moroccan government’s recent crackdown on the pro-independence movement in Western Sahara. Moroccan security forces last week raided a camp where some 20,000 Sahrawis had been staging a massive protest against the Moroccan occupation. Dozens of protesters were wounded. Representatives of Western Sahara’s Polisario Front had asked the United Nations to send a fact-finding mission to investigate. But on Tuesday, the Security Council denied the request, instead releasing a statement “deploring” the recent violence without saying who was to blame.