New York , Oct 6, 2011 – “What the polisario is hiding” ( Lo Que Esconde el Polisario) by Jose Maria Gil Garre and a “willingness stronger than sand” (Une volonté plus forte que les Sables) by Dr Henri-Louis Vedie, are two new books on the Sahara issue that were presented, on Wednesday in New York, on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly’s 4th Committee.
Following an objective approach after years of treating issues relating to the Sahara dispute, Spanish journalist Gil Garre highlighted in his book the close ties between the polisario, Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and Latin American drug traffickers.
He shed light on the plight of the Sahrawis detained by the polisario and drew attention to the Spanish victims of polisario’s terrorism in a way that has nothing to do with the spanish media campaigns that tend to depict the Tindouf-based separatists as progressive movement.
The Second book treats sustainable development in the southern provinces. Dr Vedie, who paid a visit to the southern provinces, recalled that before 1976, the southern provinces were nothing but desert and sand. Since then, he added, infrastructure had been constructed enabling the region to achieve a sustainable development higher than the national average.
