The Polisario, which has been under great pressure for several days, has put its militia on alert to abort opponents’ protest attempts against the leadership of the separatist Front, according to informed sources in Tindouf.
The anger of Sahrawis who are opposed to Mohamed Abdelaziz’s policy was amplified by the latest maneuvers of Algeria and the Polisario seeking to exploit the issue of human rights in Western Sahara in a bid to cover up the serious human rights violations suffered by the Sahrawis in Tindouf.
In these camps, that are isolated from the outside world and constantly held under the ruthless control of the Algerian military intelligence services (DRS), there is no room for dissenting voices.
No freedom of expression or free press and even less freedom of movement. The Sahrawis’ trips between the camps in Tindouf are closely monitored, while any request to leave the camps is subject to stringent conditions.

Algerian leaders stubbornly refuse to admit that their country is directly involved in the Western Sahara conflict. Nonetheless, increasing numbers of voices are being raised to assert that there can be no solution to this territorial dispute without the involvement of Algeria which had been, along with Muammar Gaddafi’s Libya, at the origin of the creation of the Polisario and later on of the Algeria-based Saharawi Republic (SADR). The Foreign Minister of Panama, Fernando Nunez Fabrega, has been the latest person to publicly bring up these facts again. He actually said that the Western Sahara conflict is not a conflict between Morocco and the Polisario, but rather a political dispute between Algeria and Morocco. Nunez Fabrega was quoted by the Panamanian newspaper "La Estrella" as saying: "it is in the interest of the concerned countries (Morocco, Algeria, Mauritania) that peace prevails in this volatile region and that negotiations be held" to settle the dispute over the Sahara. The Panamanian Foreign Minister also announced that his country was considering the possibility of setting up a troika, made up of Panama, Colombia and Costa Rica, that will have a unified stand on this issue.

The Malian crisis should speed up the settlement process of the Western Sahara conflict which has been dragging for nearly four decades at the United Nations.
The UN mediator for the Western Sahara, Christopher Ross, who is currently touring the region, reiterated in Nouakchott on Thursday his call for a "quick settlement" of the Western Sahara issue in view of the seriousness of the situation in the Sahel, where French-African troops have intervened to drive out terrorist groups from northern Mali.
The UN envoy seems to have finally become aware of the high risk posed by the presence of al Qaeda franchises in the Sahel and by their probable activities in neighboring countries.

The UN mediator for the Western Sahara, Christopher Ross, who is currently touring North Africa, listened to overwhelming statements on the serious human rights violations in the Tindouf camps when he received delegates of civil society associations in Laayoune and Dakhla.
Leaders and activists of local human rights associations and organizations denounced, while being received by Ross, the serious human rights abuses and violations committed against the populations sequestered in the Tindouf camps in south-western Algeria.
In Laayoune, the chairman of the association of missing people victim of the Polisario, Dahi Agay, who had himself been detained in the Polisario jails in Tindouf, and the chairman of the "Alouahda" association militating for the sequestered populations’ right to return to their Motherland, Ahmed Khar, informed the UN envoy that the Polisario torturers continue to inflict all kinds of persecutions to the sequestered populations, forcing them to live in humiliation and oppression.