The frustration of young Sahrawis living in Tindouf camps, under the Polisario implacable control, pushes more and more young people to rush up to the terrorist groups and the criminal networks scouring the Sahelo-Saharan zone.
The statement was made by the UN Secretary General Personal envoy for the Sahara, Christopher Ross, himself. This observation stands as a warning, especially that it comes just before the new round of informal negotiations about the future of the Western Sahara. A region over which the Polisario, an armed movement financed by Algeria, disputes with Morocco. This meeting expected during the month of February in Manhasset, near New York, should gather, like the 8 previous meetings, the delegations of Morocco, Polisario, Algeria and Mauritania. The warning of Christopher Ross seems to be addressed to all the protagonists because, for him, “the absence of a solution has introduced increasing risks for the concerned parties, the region of the Maghreb and for the (whole) international community”.

In prospect of the shortly resuming in Manhasset of the informal negotiations on the future of the Sahara, under the UN aegis, the UN HCR has organized the second meeting for the evaluation of the trust measures.
The two-days meeting has regrouped, under the HCR aegis, on the 24th and 25th January, in Geneva, the delegations of Morocco, Algeria, Mauritania and the Polisario. The aim was to deepen the thinking on trust measures among the Sahrawi populations in the Southern provinces of the Kingdom and their families in Tindouf camps in Algeria. The Chief of the Moroccan delegation, Nasser Bourita, Secretary General of the Foreign Affairs Ministry was accompanied by Omar Hilale, Ambassador, permanent representative of the Kingdom in Geneva and El Arbi Mrabet, Governor, in charge of the MIINURSO coordination bureau. Besides the High Delegate for the refugees, Antonio Gutteres, were also present at this meeting, Christopher Ross and Hani Abdelaziz, respectively personal envoy of the UN Secretary General for the Sahara and his special representative.

The Polisario does not lose its bad habits. Any protest whatever its objectives and motivations are, is fiercely suppressed and nipped in the bud. Since the re-election during the 13th Congress in the ghost locality of Tifariti (90 km at the West of Tindouf), for his 11th consecutive mandate, the Polisario leadership in the person of Mohamed Abdelaziz is highly opposed inside and outside Tindouf camps.
For the young indignated Sahrawis, all the means are good to denounce the legitimacy of those leading them. Regrouped inside the movement of the young people of the Sahrawi revolution, hundreds of young idle people observed since many days a sit-in barricading the main entry of the Hassi Raboni camp hosting the Polisario HQ. In a temporary camp built on the way, the young protesters have written in great letters and along the tarred pavement the slogan “clear off”, addressed to the Polisario chief.

The opposition to the Polisario chief, Mohamed Abdelaziz, is getting stronger in Tindouf camps in Algeria, in parallel with the fear of reprisals against the young militants of the Sahrawi revolution. The audacious actions led by the latter, have particularly irritated the Polisario leader who was elected at the head of the Front for the 11th successive mandate without interruption since 35 years. A wave of arrests and intimidations has been launched against many opponents after the writing down, in big characters on the whole width of the road leading to the Polisario general secretariat’s headquarters, of the word “irhal” meaning clear off in Arabic.

The precarious life conditions of thousands of Sahrawi refugees in the Algerian desert leave no indifference. Fortunately, there are some associations and NGOs dedicated to human rights defense, to remind the international community of a population representing thousands of people and living in deprivation, suffering and atrocities in all its forms under the leadership of torturers and the armed militia who do not know any pity or human rights respect. This Monday, a feminine Sahrawi association based in Spain has taken the initiative to denounce the inhuman conditions imposed by the Polisario leadership  to the sequestrated populations in Tindouf camps (South-West of Algeria). In a release broadcasted on Monday, “the Association of Sahrawi women for democracy and human rights” condemns these injustices and inhuman practices.