The polisario's senior officials are the only people in the Tindouf camps (Algeria's south-east) who do not talk to their relatives in Morocco, Miniter noted in a report on the camps published in the U.S. magazine Foreign Policy, entitled "The World's Most Pointless War."

    The journalist cited the examples of a polisario's "representative" in Washington DC, who sadly told him that he did not talk to his father for decades and now he never will, knowing that his father died in a state-of-the-art Moroccan hospital, adding that this separatist official "knows a visit to Morocco would have cost him his job."

    Miniter, who recently spent a week in the Tindouf camps, described an anarchist environment, where the separatists' leaders fail to provide a semblance of order, a situation exacerbated by the lack of infrastructure and legitimate power.

    He also pointed out that a simple visit to the Tindouf camps debunks the separatists' demands for a "national self-determination", explaining that the polisario's leadership, including its leader Mohamed Abdelaziz, "has a financial interest in maintaining the status quo," even at the expense of the camps' population.

    If the war ends in regional autonomy, as Morocco offers, the flow of money siphoned off from international aid will stop, the article's author explained, underlining that Algeria also has an interest in maintaining this conflict as it quests for "a kind of leadership role in the Maghreb."

Source: MAP
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