For the nth time, a demonstration was organized by human rights militants to denounce all kinds of abuses in Tindouf camps. It happened in the headquarters of the UNO representation in Rabat, and gathered on Tuesday 10th August, some hundred militants from humanitarian NGOs.
Making the most of this sit-in, the demonstrators have submitted to the executives of the UNO Office, a letter addressed to the UNO Secretary General, Ban Ki-Moon, urging him to work for the raising of the siege imposed to Moroccan Sahrawis sequestrated in Tindouf camps, in the South-West of Algeria. The letter was signed by some twenty associations representing the civil society and supervised by the “Association pour le renouveau de la femme sahraouie marocaine”, an association for the boosting of the Moroccan Sahrawi woman which headquarters are in Guelmim, in the South of the Kingdom.

Non-governmental organizations move regularly to the south of Morocco in order to assess the situation of human rights in the region, which has been a matter of dispute between Morocco and the Polisario Front since 1975. Even if the Kingdom of Morocco has still to make huge efforts before the situation of human rights in these areas be in line with international standards, the fact remains that these efforts strike the observer, and the freedom of expression enjoyed by the inhabitants of the Sahara has a big influence on the public opinion. Indeed, the Sahrawis living in Western Sahara feel free to criticize the local and national authorities without being sanctioned. Even more surprising, since the beginning of the year, there has been a flow of unprecedented arrival of Sahrawis, leaving the "Moukhayamates" (camps) of Tindouf managed by the Polisario Front, to join Morocco.

An African NGO has denounced the atrocities, committed  by the Polisario military junta, in places where Sahrawis are living in Tindouf, in the South-West of Algeria. It is in front of the UN Human Rights Council (CDH) in Geneva, that the international Committee for the respect and application of the African Charter on human and Peoples’ rights has talked about its concern following observations included in  international recent reports stating the serious violations of human rights in Tindouf camps.
Taking the floor during the 14th session of the CDH, Franz Mekyna has declared that the CIRAC was alarmed by atrocities committed by the Polisario Front in the camps where thousands of persons are sequestrated, without defence and resources. Deploring the impunity from which benefit the persons responsible for theses violations, the CIRAC representative wished to draw the Council’s attention to the precarious and delicate situation in which the Sahrawi people are compelled to live under the Polisario dictate.
The CIRAC referred to the report prepared in 2010 by Amnesty International, which confirms that the Polisario Front has recognized to have committed human rights violations in the past.

The calls made by NGO Moroccan and international organizations to the Polisario leadership and Algerian authorities to shed light on the destiny of some Sahrawis who disappeared in tindouf camps, remain hopelessly without any feedback.
An nth attempt to clarify these cases of forced  disappearance , has been undertaken on Friday 2nd July by the association of those reported to be missing (APDP), which has just transmitted  to International Amnesty Section in Rabat, some requests regarding cases of Sahrawis who have disappeared or been kidnapped in Tindouf camps. The APDP attributes such acts to Polisario armed militias with the complicity of Algerian services from the famous Intelligence and Security Department).
Not later than last June, an official from the Polisario leadership, Ahmed Berrih who was in charge of security services in Tindouf camps, has been kidnapped by the Security and Intelligence Services while he was about to secretly join Morocco. He should be at present detained by the SIS, in a secret place in Algiers suburbs. Inquiries reports, that the APDP has just submitted to Amnesty International, concern the cases of Armouch Brahim, Aslma Bighiden , both of them have disappeared in 1975), Azman Moulud Derbal (kidnapped on 11th March, 1976) and Hamdi Ben Ali Salem Ben Mohammed Yahdih, whose presence in one of the Polisario prison was notified in 1980.

After vain attempts to obtain the Algerian government’s authorisation to visit Tindouf to enquire about the life conditions of Sahrawis living in Lahmada camps, a Moroccan NGO calls the UN to save the life of three sequestrated Sahrawis. The OMDH has recently sent a letter to the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, asking him to intercede with Algiers’ authorities to release the Sahrawis, unjustly imprisoned in the Polisario jails.
These people have been sentenced for the only reason of having criticized the precarious life conditions in the camps and the misappropriation of international humanitarian aids by some Polisario leaders.