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Flood and beyond in Tindouf camps |
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Written by Abdelhak Kettani
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Tuesday, 21 October 2008 |
 Tindouf camps on Algerian territory were the theatre of serious floods which damaged old and used tents. Although no casualties were announced, the damage is very serious and the 2005 scenario is not to be excluded. To help the victims, the World Food Program (WFP) requires a precise census of the camps populations for better organizing its interventions and also stopping the humanitarian aids embezzlement. Algiers and the Polisario Front refuse the request. Algerian authorities obstinately refuse the census in the camps because they continue to use the concept of Sahraoui “people” who fled to take refuge in a friendly nearby country. |
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Former Polisario Front prisoners held a Press conference in Mauritania. |
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Written by Abdelhak Kettani
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Friday, 27 June 2008 |
 It was an exceptional event in the history of the Guerrilla “Polisario Front”. Former Mauritanians prisoners of the camps of Tindouf held an important press conference in Nouakchott. Those survivors of the camps of shame testified about the martyrdom they endured during several years. Maltreatments, tortures, humiliations, psychological pressures, such was the daily routine of these prisoners who have, for the majority, refused to take the weapons against Morocco and thus became for the Polisario Front Nomenclature the people who “betrayed” the revolution. Joined by the Belgian lawyer and priest Monsignori Jean Aboud known as having been one of discrete missi dominici in the Middle East conflict, the former prisoners of the Polisario Front delivered with big emotion the testimony of their iniquitous conditions of detention. Some of those prisoners even showed to a choked assistance the physical and still lasting souvenirs of their detention: cigarette burns, barbed wire traces ... |
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New Hope for Tindouf camps population |
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Written by Abdelhak Kettani
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Wednesday, 23 April 2008 |
 In the Tindouf camps on Algerian territory the situation is really deplorable. Sequestered population is deprived of any kind of freedom as proven by several people who manage to flee the camps as well as by NGOs and Amnesty International. The Polisario separatists had lured thousands of sahraouis into joining in the Tindouf camps where it continues to hold them against their will and claims the independence of the territory. Addressing the 15-member UN Security Council on Monday, Peter Van Walsum Personal Envoy of the UN Secretary General for Sahara stated that “an independent Western Sahara is not an attainable goal” and that the organization of a referendum was to be abandoned. Peter Van Walsum is “a man who has spent a lot of time working on this issue and presented an assessment as well as frank suggestions which are worthy of serious consideration”. these declarations are the proof that the claims of the Polisario Front for independence are not realistic and the separatist movement has no right to go on disregarding the will of the majority of the Sahara population. |
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Raid of the Polisario Front and arrest of 30 people |
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Written by Abdelhak Kettani
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Tuesday, 08 April 2008 |
 The Polisario Front gave a nasty surprise to the sequestered populations of the Tindouf camps on April 1, 2008. They operate “checks” and verifications at night after suspicions of possible escape and “preparations” to join the Moroccan territory via Mauritania. The international community has learned with sadness that massive arrests were made and 30 people were apprehended and then taken along towards an unknown destination, probably the military prison located at 15 Kilometers in the South-west of the camp of Rabouni, headquarters of the guerrilla. After a week, families are still without news from their arrested close ones. They have asked in vain, to, at least hear from their relatives, having given up the hope to see them. After this wave of arrests ordered by the executive committee of the Polisario Front, spontaneous demonstrations took place within the camps, the sahraouis claiming that fundamental freedoms to be respected. |
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