“All Sahrawi detainees in Tindouf aspire to return to Morocco” won over

All Sahrawi Moroccans detained in the Tindouf camps aspire to the liberation day when they can return to the Motherland, said Ahmed Ould Mohamed Ould Mbarek Hsina, a Moroccan Sahrawi who joined the Kingdom last Sunday.
The people sequestered in Tindouf camps in south-west Algeria, live daily suffering because of difficult living conditions under systematic abuse by the separatists of the aid provided by humanitarian organizations and foreign associations, revealed Tuesday M. Ould Mbarek Ould Hsina in a statement to the MAP.
These conditions are also due to abuses committed by Polisario leaders against the detainees, particularly those coming from the Moroccan southern provinces, he added. According to Ould Mbarek Ould Hsina, detainees no longer feel safe and are convinced that they can not remain indefinitely in Lahmada camps. The majority of detainees is convinced that the proposal of large autonomy for the Sahara region in the framework of Moroccan sovereignty is the only solution to the Sahara conflict.
Born in 1974 in Assa, at the Rguibates Sidi Allal tribe, Mohamed Ould Ahmed Ould Mbarek Hsina, describes as a crime his abduction along with his mother and sister by Polisario in 1979. Back to the Tindouf camps in 1996, after studying in Algeria and Cuba, he was recruited by the separatists army and carried out training under the guidance of Algerian officers in the Bashar region.
Source: MAP -News on Western Sahara/Corcas-

A Mauritanian party calls for an investigation on the fate people missing in Polisario camps

The Mauritanian Democratic Socialist Party called on Tuesday the international community and regional and international humanitarian organizations to carry out an investigation to clarify the fate of 150 Mauritanian nationals missing in the Tindouf camps in southern Algeria.
"The Party and the Mauritanian people refuse to remain silent about this matter and demand an international inquiry on these abducted and tortured people, some of which were even killed in Polisario jails," said the President Isselkou Ould Rabbani, at a press conference, attended by several family members of the missing people.
He said that his party "does not accept that Mauritania recognizes a puppet entity which commits acts of abduction, torture and murder against its citizens, threatens its northern borders and stands as an obstacle in front of its socio- economic relations with its brothers in the north".
Mr. Ould Rabbani also called for "supporting the efforts made by Morocco to grant autonomy to the people of the Sahara".
Emphasizing the commitment of his party for the integration of the Maghreb, he called to support the Moroccan initiative, open borders between the Kingdom and Algeria and put an end to the artificial tension in the region.
The head of the Mauritanian Socialist Democratic Party has attracted the attention of the authorities of his country and the locally and internationally public opinion on the barbaric acts against Mauritanian nationals in Polisario jails, describing these acts as contrary to the Islamic religion and international law.
At this conference, relatives of Polisario victims have provided touching testimonies on acts of abduction and torture against several members of their families.
In one of these testimonies, Al Houcine Ould Abderrahmane, has revealed that a Polisario patrol had abducted his three sons for more than two decades.
Ould Abderrahmane called national and international community to exert pressure on Polisario to release its three sons and all the missing people in Polisario jails.
Source: MAP -News on Western Sahara issue/ Corcas-

Corcas Members join a delegation from southern provinces visiting the Canaries

A delegation from the southern provinces of the Kingdom began Monday, a visit to the Canary Islands, to discuss ways to further strengthen cooperative relations between the Spanish archipelago and this region of southern Morocco.
The delegation is composed of Mr. Dahi Ahmed, member of the Central Committee of the Istiqlal Party (PI), Fala Bossoula, MP from the Socialist Union of Popular Forces (USFP) in Laayoune, Sidi Ahmed Mahmoud Terrouzi, president of the provincial council and member of the Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs (CORCAS), and Ramdam Messoaud Larbi, CORCAS member and president of the Sahrawi Association for the Defence of Human Rights (ASADEDH).
The delegation members met with the chairman of the Port Authority of Santa Cruz, M. Pedro J. Rodriguez Zaragoza, focused on ways to strengthen cooperative relations between the two neighbouring regions.
This meeting was an opportunity for members of the Moroccan delegation to highlight the importance of the autonomy project proposed by Morocco to solve the Sahara conflict, a project which received support from the international community and which is likely to set up stability in the region, said to the MAP M. Ahmed Dahi. In this regard, the Moroccan delegation also mentioned the recent positive statements made before the security council by the Personal Envoy of the UN Secretary General for the Sahara, Mr. Van Walsum.
According to members of the Moroccan delegation, the chairman of the Port Authority of Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Canary Coalition), said he was intending to pay visit to the southern provinces to establish contacts with local officials and examine opportunities for cooperation and partnership between the port of Santa Cruz and this region of southern Morocco.
Members of the delegation have, similarly, held a meeting with representatives of the local press in Tenerife, during which they highlighted the efforts made by Morocco, under the leadership of His Majesty King Mohammed VI, for the consolidation of the democratic edifice.
The delegation will meet, Tuesday, members of the Socialist parliamentary group and will be received by the chairman of the regional parliament, Mr. Antonio Castro Cordobez, from the governing Canary Coalition.
A meeting will be held Wednesday with the head of the autonomous government of the Canary Islands, M. Paulino Rivero Baute, and the mayor of Santa Cruz, M. Miguel Zerolo, both members of the Canary Coalition.
The members of the Moroccan delegation will travel thereafter to Las Palmas for talks with local officials from the island of Gran Canaria.
Source: MAP -News on Western Sahara issue/ Corcas-