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| Western Sahara Separatist Splinter Group Challenges Algeria Backed Polisario |
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The channel has quoted the group as threatening, after a meeting held in the Western Sahara, to enter into direct negotiations with Morocco which controlled the territory, a subject of a decades-long dispute between Rabat and the Algerian-backed Polisario. The separatist front has its main bases in Algeria, which allowed thousands of refugees from the territory to settle in the town of Tindouf. "Our moves stem from our belief in the greatness of our people. This is why we set a deadline for the Polisario leadership in the [Tindouf] refugee camps to begin a dialogue and convene an emergency conference by 12 October 2010. That is the legal deadline for convening the conference by the front leadership. We consider ourselves to be a reformist movement within Polisario. If the front begins a dialogue and holds a democratic emergency conference where the refugee population can decide what they want, then this is fine. Otherwise, we will live up to our historic responsibility and announce that we are ready to begin UN-sponsored direct negotiations with Morocco to end the suffering that our people have endured over 35 years under a leadership. The latter does not feel the suffering of our people, women and children, who being outside their homeland only yearn for freedom and independence," says the coordinator of Khat El Chahid, Mahdjoub Ould El Salek. [Khat El Chahid announced in 2004 it was to become a reformist movement working from outside the Polisario. It accused the front leadership of being undemocratic and not caring enough for Sahrawi refugees. In a telephone interview with Al-Jazeera TV, the Polisario envoy in Paris, Omar Mansour said: "I am not aware of the existence of a significant organization called Khat El Chahid. They are our friends who live in exile in Spain. They have links with the Moroccan intelligence service, which has exploited them on several occasions to create a mix-up and weaken the national goals of the Sahrawi people." Asked whether his statement implied that Polisario did not accept the demands made by Khat El Chahid, Mansour emphasized the view that the group did not exist as a faction within Polisario and had no presence in the Western Sahara or in the Tindouf refugee camps. Mansour played down threats made by Kkat El Chahid. "It is a group of youths who may have rebelled over disagreements with the front. They seek to solve problems in exile by different means, including having links with the Moroccan intelligence service," said Mansour. The organization announced its existence in 2004, stating that it had to move outside the Polisario in order to help correct the front's faulty practices. It accused the Polisario leadership of being undemocratic, not caring enough for families of fallen soldiers and the army, and of bowing to pressure. The Polisario has refused to respond or recognize the organization, insisting that differences be solved within the established system. However, there have been no reports of police intervention against members. Its activities at this stage do not seem to go beyond publishing pamphlets against the present Polisario leadership, and while it may affect internal Sahrawi politics, it is of minimal or no significance to the conflict. Its relation to Polisario remains slightly ambiguous. Khat al-Shahid considers itself to be part of Polisario, and labels itself a reformist movement, but works outside its established system to change it. Its Tindouf-based members remain active in the Polisario administration and armed forces.
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rachid1
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Polisario should be treated as terrorist organisation What is Polisario? just a terrorist organisation which has been terrorising Morocco for decades. They should be dealt with seriously if they ever lift an arm on Morocco. These polisario was created by Algeria and Algeria should deal with them adn shouldn't allow them to attack Morocco from their terretory. I have to say that Most algerians that I know are good friend and would never wish ill to Morocco. But their government certainly that monkey bolded Bouterlika is nuts...He has a lot of oil money and instead of using it to grow their country to beneift their people, he choose to buy arms...algerians and Moroccans are brothers and that will never change...algerians should call for their government to change course and fix their mistake by ending this confict adn kick out the Polisario terrorist ot of their land. |
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Two quick questions for the author.... If Khat al Chahid is a legitimate faction either within or outside of the Polisario Front, and if they accuse the Polisario Front of bowing to pressure (which, most likely, means pressure from the UN and the international community to play by the rules and negotiate), then that would mean that they are even more adamantly opposed to Moroccan occupation than the Polisario itself. If so, 1) why would the Khat al Chahid movement make all of this information public enough for the Moroccan writers on this site to access it, and 2)why would the Morocco Board want to try to undermine the Polisario by publishing this information? That just doesn't make sense to me. |
kalid
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... charly, You don't need to look at history, otherwise the Southwest of the US should return to Mexico. The Sahara in modern administrative terms was "terra nullious".Even tough spiritually and politically, it has always been in the Cherifian sphere of influence, I don't expect you to comprehend some transcendental concepts born of 12 centuries of bond and belief. Look at the geography,Algeria,Lybia, Egypt ( because of some colonial aberration) own and control portion of the Sahara.Morocco should have its piece of that empty land. It has owned for 30 years and in 30 years there will be still a handful of freedom fighters claiming independence. "Western Sahara has never been part of Morocco", well it is now and for good! Sans rancune... |
B.Rahali
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This polisario can not even move .. What can possibly do,those handful of puppets who called themselves the polisario? Moroccan Army has become more experienced and well equipped to defend our national security.Those puppets can not move freely even in Tindouf without the permission of their Algerian masters. the bottom line is that Morocco is in control of its land whether they like it or not.That is what the brilliant strategist,King Hassan II used to say proudly.And that what counts.The Algerian generals still can not think beyond 1975.The Great Green March,orchestrated and executed to the letter drove them to nuts.They responded by expelling thousands of Moroccans without giving them a chance to take their belonogings with them.That was their only triumph they scored over Morocco! To Charly above, Which history are you talking about?Can you elaborate? |
charly
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polisario? if you look at the history i am sorry but western sahara has never been part of morocco in the past. |
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