Polisario members attack relatives of the secretary general of the MSP, Hach Ahmed

The Secretary General of the Saharawi Movement for Peace (MSP), Hach Ahmed Bericalla, denounced on Thursday before the Special Representative for Western Sahara, Alexander Ivanko, the aggression suffered at the hands of Polisario Front militants against his relatives in the Saharawi refugee camp of Ain El Beda, in Dakhla, located 160 kilometres east of Tindouf. 

"This is undoubtedly an unjustified aggression which shows the use of force in repressive acts of reprisal or revenge for political reasons in a civilian refugee camp inhabited mainly by women and children", underlines Hach Ahmed. The secretary general of the MSP asserts in the letter that "this is not the first time that this type of aggression has taken place".  

"In September last year, my relatives in the same camp were victims of harassment by a mob manipulated by the discourse of hatred and intolerance propagated by the Polisario", adds the former distinguished member of this organisation, who denounced and attached visual documents of the attack on his niece, Hassina Salem Ahmed, and asked to confirm the veracity of what happened.  

The MSP, founded by Hach Ahmed, advocates a third way to resolve the protracted dispute over Western Sahara. It advocates a broad autonomy comparable to that of the associated free states, federal states or, more specifically, to that of the autonomies in Spain. In this case under Moroccan sovereignty, which is the reason for the Polisario's reprisals.

On Friday night, a series of violent acts took place in the same camp in Dakhla in response to the campaign of repression launched by the Polisario forces. The security post was set on fire and Gendarmerie vehicles were destroyed.