It is a situation which the world seems to have forgotten, that of the 90 000 Sahrawis living in the Tindouf camps, closely controlled by the Polisario Front and the Algerian army. Deprived of the freedom to move, to hold association meetings, being under strict daily control, the Sahrawis sequestered in Tindouf are threatened by a new insidious evil: oblivion. While their country of origin, Morocco, is only some kilometres away, the Sahrawis living in the camps managed by the Polisario Front Guerrilla can not think about enjoying their right of returning back, a right which is guaranteed by the International Human Rights Charter. What is the reason of this ubuesque situation? Some power stakes and a will of dominating the Maghreb by Algeria which is polluting the political situation of North Africa since almost 34 years.

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.

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.