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 ...

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.

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.

In 2008, the Tindouf camps managed by the Polisario Front with Algeria’s support still resist international legality. What are the reasons for this denial of justice to civil populations -whom neither have, for the majority, never witnessed the cold war nor are concerned with the conflict opposing Morocco to the revolutionary organization of Marxist-Leninist inspiration?
In fact, the Polisario Front is experiencing a destiny similar to the FARCS in Colombia. Organization created by a group of revolutionists of extreme left… the revolution left room to pragmatism and the “fight” moved from ideological inspirations towards more prosaic revolutionary capitalism.