What happens in Tindouf “Sahrawi refugees” camps, in the Algerian South-West? The question deserves to be asked, as there are so many echoes and testimonies that talk about arrests made by the Algerian security departments, during the last weeks, of many opponents of the Polisario leader within Tindouf camps. These operations come in reprisal to the huge movement of internal dissidence, even if it is still under-structured, in the Polisario, blaming the Polisario leadership and its frozen and obstructionist policy in negotiations with Morocco.
In fact, some voices, more and more strong and daring, have started emerging, in contest and dissidence to the hard and hermetic line of the Polisario leadership which does not allow any internal discussion or critics concerning the camps’ future and to the pursuit of negotiations with Morocco.

At the time when the Sahrawi activists work openly to defend human rights in the Moroccan Sahara taking advantage of the solidarity of the wide Moroccan associative network and of the symbolic capital accumulated by the latter during the decades of militancy and also of the undeniable opening of the Moroccan society, and of the State afterwards, to everything relating to the sensitive human rights sector, the issue of the same human rights remain a major concern on the other side, that of Lahmada camps on the Algerian territory, despite the calls and the denunciations of the NGO and the international institutions, and mainly UN institutions, HCR at their head!

It is now more than three decades that Tindouf camps, where the guerilla movement of the Polisario Front is sheltered, have been set up, following a major political conflict between Morocco and Algeria about the future of the Maghreb. In fact, beyond the versions conveyed by the propaganda bureau of the Polisraio Front, it is useful to recall the orientations of this movement and to remember that it concerns an entity inspired by the Marxist-Leninist revolutionary doctrine, still in vogue in the early 70s, but henceforth almost non existing everywhere. There remains only two movements in the world resulting from this “revolutionary” matrix, the Colombian FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia), sadly known for their practices of personalities’ kidnapping, and the Polisario Front, sheltered by the Algerian regime which gives it refuge and provides it with the logistical support. Today, this situation has become inacceptable, as behind the slogans, “liberty” odes, is it useful to remind that the Polisraio front has imprisoned, for over 25 years, Moroccan citizens, and did not return them back to their homeland only after a very important pressure from the international community?. The latter, which has shown some severity, is today called by the humanitarian organizations to put an end to the quasi-incarcerating situation of the people living in Tindouf camps.