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Mohamed Abdelaziz responsible for Sahara issue stalemate, ABC daily
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Madrid, Mar. 02 - Spanish chronicler, Luis Ignacio Parada on Thursday deemed Polisario head, Mohamed Abdelaziz responsible for "Sahara issue stalemate."


Under the title "Polisario internal split", published by the Spanish "ABC" daily, Luis Ignacio Parada writes that "what is certain, is that 15 years after the ceasefire signed under the auspices of the United Nations, Abdelaziz has "lost the active Algerian support and the humanitarian aids have been reduced," adding that "Polisario" chief Mohamed Abdelaziz is responsible for Sahara issue stalemate. 


Polisario is an Algeria-backed movement that claims the separation of Moroccan Southern provinces, known as the Sahara.


Face to "the recent threats of Mohamed Abdelaziz to use whatever means, including armed conflict," the new reformist political movement dubbed "Polisario - Ligne du Martyr," "has adopted negotiation principles as a unique way to find a solution" to Sahara issue, recalled Luis Ignacio.


Several Polisario executives and militants announced on Monday the creation of the new reformist political movement.


In a statement to the Spanish press agency "Europapress," Salek Mahjoub, the movement spokesperson and one of "Polisario" founders, has said his movement program is based on "democracy, freedom of expression and change in power through democratic means."


The movement spokesperson has stressed that “Sahrawi populations cannot remain forever in Tindouf camps,” in southwestern Algeria (where they were lured leaving their homes because of Polisario propaganda in the mid-seventies. 


In a press release, the new movement affirms that it represents all the Sahrawis wherever they are, assuring that it “respects dialogue, freedom of expression and assembly, and human rights,” in the frame of “the values of justice and democracy.”


“As a Sahrawi national political organization,” the movement aspires to reach the following objectives: a civilized, aware, organized and modern population living on their soil, said the press release.


They underlined that the Polisario current leadership “holds power reins without any progress over these long years,” pigmented by “the incapacity of this leadership to get adapted to the no war-no peace situation, in addition to the United Nations indifference, which forces us to accept the principle of a state on Lahmada.”


The new Sahrawi movement also denounces “the campaigns of arrests, sequestration, torture and liquidation of several innocent sahrawi militants” by the current Polisario leadership, which is responsible, according to them, for “the failure of all previous initiatives calling for reform and change, the only objectives of which were to satisfy the authorities ambitions and their personal and tribal interests.”



 


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