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Sahara – UNO : remarks made by the head of the MINURSO : misinterpretation or tactlessness ? |
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Written by Ali Haidar
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Monday, 26 July 2010 11:17 |
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 Has the special representative of the UNO Secretary General, in charge of the MINURSO, Hany Abdelaziz committed a diplomatic tactlessness in his declaration to the Algerian press during his last trip to Algeria ?
Hany Abdel-Aziz has expressed, according to the Algerian press, his “concern about the human rights situation in the Sahara”!! If it is the case, it would be an inappropriate gesture from an UN experienced diplomat (25 years of experience), who is supposed to remain totally neutral as regard to the disagreement opposing Morocco, on the one hand, and Algeria and its protégé the Polisario, on the other hand.
Upon his arrival on Thursday 22nd July to Morocco coming from Algiers, the UN representative has simply denied the words attributed to him by the Algeria and the Polisario media. Hany Abdel-Aziz who has also stopped over at Tindouf, has also maintained that his declaration was not faithfully translated, before explaining that the term “concern” is a vague expression and that he is unable to be acquainted with the facts of the matter. “I am not in charge, in conformity with UN Security Council resolution 1920, of these questions”, has he declared.
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Sahara- Rallying : Nothing would stop people to escape from Tindouf camps, not even the Algerian military intelligence services |
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Written by Ali Haidar
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Wednesday, 14 July 2010 10:09 |
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 Neither the armed militia of the Polisario Front nor elements from the Algerian military intelligence services ( DRS – Security and Intelligence Department) appear to be able to stop the haemorrhage of the running away from Tindouf camps. Proof can be given by the record-breaking figure of 1000 Sahrawis who have joined Morocco in six months time, but also the phenomena of groups containing an average of fifty persons including women and children.
Even the arrest at the end of last June, by an Algerian armed commando and Polisario, of a group of 50 Sahrawis who were trying to leave Tindouf camps to join Morocco via Mauritania, did not dissuade other discontented in the camps to try the adventure of escaping from there.
We have just learned from our source in Mauritania that one hundred Sahrawis who have succeeded in escaping from Tindouf camps , a prison in the open air, are about to join Morocco.
Since two weeks ago, they file off, from early in the morning, in front of Morocco consulate services located along the Maritime avenue in Nouadhibou, to accomplish the transit formalities to join the Moroccan territory where they would meet their families and relatives, after long years of separation.
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Tindouf – Algeria : Algerian authorities questioned about the destiny of detained Sahrawis |
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Written by Ali Haidar
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Wednesday, 30 June 2010 10:58 |
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 With the coming visit of the Human Rights Watch (HRW) visit to Tindouf camps, many Sahrawis detained by the Polisario have been transferred to other non identified places in Algeria. Worried, families of these detained have got in touch with some Sahrawi and international human rights organizations, calling them to intervene to shed light on the detention and life conditions of their relatives.
Just before the arrival of HRW members, authorized by Algiers to go to Tindouf, Polisario leaders relieved congestion at their prisons. Some common law prisoners have been released but most of the detained people opposing the Polisario separatist ideology and thesis have been transferred to unknown places.
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Sahara – Norway: A Norwegian NGO claims a census of the Tindouf population |
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Written by Ali Haidar
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Wednesday, 07 July 2010 09:07 |
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 The Algerian authorities have again been asked, as a hosting country, to open the doors of Tindouf camps to let the UN specialized Organisations conduct a census of the Sahrawi populations established in these camps. A Norwegian NGO has recently made an urgent call to the international community to make more pressure on the Algerian authorities so that they give their support to organizing this census in free and transparent circumstances. It was on the occasion celebrating the World Refugee Day that the Norwegian NGO "World Action for Refugees” made its call to the Algerian government to assume its responsibility as a hosting country of the Sahrawis’ camps. By the same occasion, the NGO has condemned the “inhuman” conditions in which hundreds of Sahrawis have been living in the Tindouf camps for more than three decades, entirely depending on international humanitarian aids.
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Sahara-autonomy : Brussels-Lagouira Peace Caravan about to reach its goal |
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Written by Ali Haidar
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Thursday, 24 June 2010 08:10 |
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 The peace caravan, organized in solidarity with the Moroccan project for the Sahara autonomy, and gathering 350 persons : those operating in associations, Moroccans living in Europe and journalists, namely from Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Switzerland, Spain, Tunisia and Algeria, has arrived to Laayoune, on June 17th, after having left Brussels and gone through many European capitals and Moroccan cities.
The Peace Caravan has started its journey from Brussels, more exactly from the European Council headquarters, an opportunity to hand over to European executives letters supporting the Sahara autonomy initiative. Letters denouncing also the living conditions of Sahrawis sequestrated in Tindouf camps, in the Algerian territory. The Peace Caravan has, thus, gone through many European capitals and big cities among which Strasbourg, capital of the European Parliament, Paris, Lyon, Barcelona and Madrid in order to make the European public opinion aware about the importance and credibility of the Sahara autonomy project and about the historical, political and cultural legitimacy of the Moroccan provinces in the South.
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