THE POLISARIO PROPAGANDA MACHINE
AND THE REALITY OF THE LATEST EVENTS
IN THE KINGDOM OF MOROCCO
BY: MOULAY AHMED MAOUELAININ
I have read the statement concerning the recent demonstrations which took place in few universities in the Kingdom of Morocco, signed by the president of the (ASVDH).
It is unfortunate that the statement, issued in EL-AYOUN, on monday10, 2007 did not explain the reasons behind these incidents. First of all the recent confrontation at the Rachidia, Agadir, and even Casablanca universities has involved sahraoui students, and amazighi students and others, they all opted to use violence against each other, to express their political differences, in fact the Moroccan police have kept low profile, until incidents in question got violent to the point that security and students life was endangered.
Your statement is seen as a purely propaganda for sahraoui separatists whether they live in the territory, or in the refugee camps in Tindouf inside Algeria. This not the first time that the polisario propaganda machine uses misinformation as a weapon to destabilize Morocco, using the “same traditional words” to seek the international community ,and international opinion public sympathy ,in this respect the most untrue statements I have ever read in my life is about some fairly small demonstrations that took place in towns such as Dakhla, Smara,organized by local polisario sympathisers, in addition to other demonstrations by sahraoui students at Moroccan universities, they hardly attracted a few hundreds people This agitation was used by polisario propaganda machine to “ denounce” the genocide and the slaughter, and moreover qualified this agitations here and there as“sahraoui intifada”.
As much as I believe in the human rights principle, as much as I know that the principle of human rights is respected in the kingdom of Morocco, much more than in the refugee camps in Tindouf inside Algeria .The way the leadership of polisario is dealing with sahraouis detained in the Tindouf refugee camps against their will. And on the top of all that the fact they are closely controlled by both the polisario military services ,and the Algerian military services so that, they remain in the camps against their will , and against the basic principles oh human rights, basically they are not allowed to leave the refugee camps in order to join their families, and go back to their homeland in the territory of Moroccan Sahara.( at least for those who have expressed their desire, and willingness to go back home where they belong)
The freedom of expression is the right not only for sahraouis but also for the whole Moroccan population whether they belong to the northern, or to the southern part of the Kingdom, provided that the law is respected being above every Moroccan citizen,and violence is not used as a mean to achieve goals, and also the national security is preserved.
The statement, which is undoubtedly part of the polisario propaganda machine is not convincing at all, having said that, let me through the sahraoui association of victims of human rights, to express my disappointment to the way sahraoui people are treated by the polisario military services. Everybody knows that our people in the refugee camps do not enjoy freedom of speech and expression, and that the polisario remains a totalitarian military, and political movement, with single party system, sole institutions structure. I would like in the same context to express my anger to the fact that our people in Tindouf refugee camps (who depend on humanitarian aid donated by numerous UN organizations, and also international NGO’s) do not get much of the humanitarian aid, instead in most cases humanitarian food supply is sold on the black market in neighbouring countries by the polisario.
Unfortunately, you deliberately ignore the fact that Moroccan sahraoui enjoy much of freedom, and they lead a dignified life, eversince the problem of the Sahara became a conflict (thanks to the direct involvement of Algeria, which is now the undisputable policy maker of the polisario front) sahraouis all over the kingdom of Morocco were taken care of, on every single aspect of their lives ,they are Moroccan citizens and therefore they have to obey the law, which regulate life in the kingdom ,those who have opted to express their views by using violence deserve to be arrested ,and judged accordingly, nobody is above the law and particularly those who do not spare any efforts to destabilize the kingdom
