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.

Since several weeks, the direction of the Polisario Front who runs the camps located at the South-west of Algeria, would have decided to restrict the population displacements fearing that some sahraouis would join Morocco.
According to several concordant testimonies, a rebellion would have taken place in the sequestered-camps called “27 Febrero” following a quarrel with the management of the Polisario Front concerning the “passes” to Tindouf.
The revolutionary movement fears hemorrhage which would be likely to put it in weakness position before the resumption of negotiations with Morocco to be held next March in the suburbs of New York.
In this tremendous game of billiards with three bands including Algeria, Morocco and the Polisario Frente,the big losers remain unfortunately the sahraouies populations sequestered in the camps of Lahmada whom free will have been confiscated by the revolutionary movement. 

Since the publication of the «Release of Slave” document by Spanish newspaper “Canarias 7 ”, the slavery in the camps of Tindouf is making headlines.
The document was obtained from a Tindouf court which officialized the release by the Polisario Front of two slaves. The black slave trade in the Polisario camps has became intolerable for the Sahraoui populations who cannot ignore any more the discrimination exerted against some black people. According to several concordant sources, the slaves will organize a pacific march to assert their right to freedom.
Mauritania has adopted a moratorium prohibiting slavery and the Polisario Frente is not taking any measures out of fear of the “directing” families who take advantage of this system and who represent the conservative branch of the inhabitants’ camps.
Indeed, if one can find all kinds of historical and cultural reasons to this established fact, it is intolerable, that in 2008, discrimination by the skin color which determines fate of a human being until the end of its days, still exist.