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Ahmadou El-Katab | Friday, March 9, 2012
Corroborating sources from Tindouf confirm that the inhabitants of these camps are facing starvation due to the lack of food from humanitarian aid that the international community has made a habit of sending. The same sources indicate that this deficit is the result of two essential elements of which the first and most serious is the abuse by camp managers of this aid and its commercialization in neighboring countries, starting with hosting the camps on its territory. The second reason is the lack of economic crisis faced by European countries, including Spain, the main donor. These sources indicate that UNHCR has allocated an estimated $ 8.7 million for the benefit of people in the camps, said that the situation will be catastrophic, particularly in the areas of health and food security. This situation, deplore our sources, which is due to bad governance and greed of some leaders of the Polisario who are behind the diversion of such commodities, is the cause of sanitary deficiencies and diseases related to malnutrition that afflict children, pregnant women and women of childbearing age that are the lot of these kinds of people in the camps. The sources said hundreds of tons of food, medicines and goods are regularly sold through dies almost mafia in southern Algeria (Tindouf, Bechar, Laabadla, Oum Laassal, Adrar) and northern Mauritania (Bir Morgrein, Ain Bentili, Lehfira, Zouerat, Nouaddhibou, Choum and Atar) and even in Nouakchott. Proceeds from these sales allow the separatists to maintain their diplomatic efforts, political and military power while the personal accounts of Mohamed Abdelaziz and his family members (shopkeepers in Tindouf, Bechar, Oran, Oum Laassal), and those other leaders of the Polisario. The name of the wife of immovable impetuous Front Secretary-General, Khadija Hamdi and some of its so-called ministers have also been mentioned recently on a CD-Rom recorded and distributed in the Tindouf camps by young activists of the antenna of the League of Partisans for autonomy in the Moroccan Sahara in Tindouf. This CD has revealed, among other things, their involvement in cases of diversion of humanitarian aid and foreign donations.
The media has also listed their accounts balances and reproduces scanned photocopies of these money flows. Referring to documents published by the Mauritanian press, including the list of 16 separatists from within which the remuneration paid by the Polisario leadership should be increased, our interviewees told us that the Polisario is no longer able preserve the privacy of its decisions, protect humanitarians who visit its camps and to prevent its weapons are stolen with impunity in his own barracks. This is called the stampede. It attests to the deterioration of the situation and announced that the end of the regime approach Abdelaziz leaps and bounds.
