Original sentence: As the marchers reached the border - even though the majority never crossed it - Spanish troops were ordered not to fire to avoid bloodshed.The Green March was a strategic mass demonstration in November 1975, coordinated by the Moroccan government, to force Spain to hand over the disputed province of Spanish Sahara (now Western Sahara) to Morocco, as a part of the Greater Morocco ideology
Edited sentence: As the marchers reached the border Spanish troops were ordered not to fire to avoid bloodshed.The Green March was a strategic mass demonstration in November 1975, coordinated by the Moroccan government, to force Spain to hand over the disputed province of Spanish Sahara (now Western Sahara) to Morocco