In a commentary headlined "The right to return and the Sahara Conflict", the newspaper insisted "the humanitarian aspect of the Sahara conflict should no longer suffer any delay", arguing that the initiative of organizing family visit exchanges alone remains very limited as long as the operation is not backed by a voluntary repatriation as a means to solve the Sahara dispute.
The negotiations lately called for by the UNSG can be conclusive taking into account the human dimension of the conflict, the daily said arguing the UNO should support the voluntary repatriation option "before dealing with the other aspects of the problem".
The Algeria-backed "Polisario", claiming the separation of the Moroccan southern provinces, known as the Sahara, lured out of the territory into camps close to Tindouf, thousands of Sahrawis, who have been since then barred from returning home. It waged war on Morocco as of 1975 and even attacking foreigners working in the territory or fishing in nearby sea.
Meanwhile, the Spain-based Association for Terrorism Victims (AVT), decided through its Galicia branch, northwest, to reopen the terror dossier of “Polisario” as of the late seventies in a bid to defend the interests of all the people, who were in any form harmed by the separatists, sources in Spain said Sunday.
The AVT said it is defending all the people, who suffered directly or indirectly from the attacks, firing, sequestration, or explosions perpetrated by “Polisario” at the end of the seventies against the workers of the PhosBoucraa mines, in the Sahara.
AVT branch Vice-President, Ramiro Cervino, told "La Voz de Galicia" daily, Galician families that were affected could benefit from the compensation paid by the Spanish State to terror victims as victims of “Polisario” attacks.
In the Canary Islands, the victims of « Polisario » terrorism have decided to join the Canary Association for the Victims of Terrorism" (ACAVITE), to defend their interests.
In Vitoria, mainland Spain, hundreds of Moroccans living in the Basque region, (north of Spain), demonstrated on Sunday to denounce the violations of human rights in the camps of Tindouf and raise awareness among the public opinion on "the tragic situation" of the Sahrawis sequestrated in southwest Algeria.
Demonstrators chanted slogans against the interference of Algeria and the acts of some Spanish small groups, which use "the friendship to the Sahrawis" as a smokescreen to cover up their activities hostile to Moroccan sovereignty over the Sahara.
In the same town, several participants in a conference of friends of « Polisario » denounced the undemocratic practices of the organizers who systematically stifle any idea criticizing “Polisario”.
At any session of the "European Conference of Coordination and Support to the Sahrawis", « Polisario » protectors put censors, who silence different or dissent voices, even interrupting meetings to avoid debate and questions on the Sahara issue.