Tindouf camps’ populations are getting more angry. The reasons of such an agitation are due to the arrest of a group of fifty fugitives who have lately tried to join Morocco through Mauritania, led by the son of one of the Polisario leaders.
At the same time, a demonstration was being prepared to protest against the forced enlistment of Sahrawi students who came back from Cuba, which made the Polisario leadership decree a state of maximum alert, especially that a delegation representing Human Rights Watch was expected to pay a visit to Tindouf camps.
For this purpose, the Polisario militias have received the precious help of the Algerian military intelligence services (DRS), who immediately sent a commission to the camps in order to ease the young students’ rage.

Why not a Maghreb investigation committee about the serious violations and the inhuman treatments undergone everyday by thousands of Sahrawis living in Tindouf?
Such a committee would be more credible, with the advantage of representing the Maghreb countries and will thus conduct an internal enquiry to reveal the untold in an issue opposing Morocco and Algeria, two neighbouring countries.
This is a proposal from the Moroccan League of Human Rights (LMDDH), whose announcement coincides with the celebration, on 26 June, of the International Day against Torture. Taking this opportunity, the League reiterates its rejection and condemnation of torture perpetrated against civilians in Tindouf, only because they have expressed their opinion. Also, the League has called the NGOs defending human rights to intercede with Algeria in order to put an end to this kind of abuses and conduct international penal prosecutions against those who committed these crimes. 
The same grievances and recriminations have been expressed in Italy, especially in the regions of Toscana and Lombardy. A delegation of Sahrawis, including former Polisario leaders, has denounced atrocious living conditions inflicted for more than thirty years to thousands of Sahrawis in Tindouf.

Amnesty International has accused Polisario to be responsible for the impunity from which have benefitted the perpetrators of human rights violations committed, during the 70s and 80s, in Tindouf camps, in the South-West of Algeria.
The International Organization for Human Rights which has presented its 2010 annual report, on Tuesday, in Rabat, has also pointed the Algerian executives refusing access for NGO to investigate about repeated human rights abuses and violations in Tindouf camps.
Thus, the NGO based in London has requested that « the Algerian authorities show more collaboration by allowing Amnesty International to investigate about abuses committed by Polisario during the 70s and 80s ».
This call addressed to Algeria is the last one of a series of procedures, undertaken in vain by international NGO, to have access to Sahrawi camps located on the Algerian territory.
Already in 2009, HRW had claimed its « preoccupation about the human rights situation in Tindouf camps », an area qualified by the American Organization of being « isolated and subject to a strict control ».

Morocco has again asked the UN Agency for Refugee to insist that Algeria authorizes the census of Sahrawis living in Tindouf camps, a request which is well founded at a time when the Sahrawi people continue escaping, in groups, these camps to join Morocco.
The call has been launched by the Foreign Affairs Moroccan Minister at a time when another group of 49 Sahrawis has arrived to the South of Morocco. These Sahrawis joined hundreds of other compatriots who have reached Morocco these last months. According to the Minister, a census led by the UN Agency for Refugees would also allow these populations to express freely themselves about their right of remaining in the camps or joining their homeland.
By opening these camps, the UN Agency for Refugee would shed light on what is really happing and, thus, contribute to put an end to abuses and human rights violations committed there.