Former members of Polisario

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Since the end of the 1980's, several members of Polisario have decided to discontinue their military or political activities for the Polisario Front. Most of them returned from Algeria to Morocco, among them top leaders, founder members, and senior officials. Some of them are now actively promoting Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara, which Morocco considers its Southern Provinces. Their individual reasons to stop working for Polisario, as reported in the media, vary, but include allegations of human rights violations, monopolization and abuse of power, blackmailing and sequestering the refugee population in Tindouf, and squandering foreign aid. They also claim Polisario is controlled by the government of Algeria and as one former member of Polisario put it, "[was] a group of Moroccan students who were urging the Spanish colonizer to leave and who had never claimed independence or the separation from motherland Morocco."[1]

The following is a list of some former, most senior, members of Polisario. It is not exhaustive.

  • Omar Hadrami Mohamed Ali - responsible of the military security of Polisario[2], a relative of the late Ma al-'Aynayn
  • Lebnaha Attaya - Close to Prime Minister of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, Mahfoud Ali Beiba [3]
  • Ghaoutah Mohamed Ahmed Baba - census official [4]
  • Mustapha El Barazani – founder member and representative at the Organisation of African Unity [5]
  • Mustapha Bouh - Political Commissar for Sahrawi Popular Army of Liberation. [6]
  • Bachir Dkhill - Founding member of the Polisario, representative of the organization in several countries and organizations.[7]
  • Guajmoula Bent Ebbi - member of the Politburo, and today Moroccan MP.[8]
  • Sidati Mohamed Abdellahi alias Sidati El Ghallaoui - representative of the Polisario in Italy and Malta. [9]
  • Omar Hadrami –founding member of the Front and member of the Politburo. [10]
  • Mohamed Abdelkader Ould Mohamed Oul Habiboullah Ould Haibelti - Held several top positions before heading the Sahrawi Republic-radio [11][12]
  • Brahim Hakim - Former foreign minister of the RASD and representative of the Polisario in North America.[13] [14]
  • Maâlainine Mohamed Khaled - Polisario observer at MINURSO in Mauritania (5-7-2005) [15]
  • Boullahi El Khalifa - Director of Polisario radio broadcasting [16]
  • Mohamed Salem Khatri [17]
  • Keltoum Khayati - Formerly in charge of the organization of women. [18]
  • Ayoub Lahbib - Founder member of the Polisario and member of the Executive Committee [19].
  • Abderrahmane Leibek – Polisario member[20]
  • Mohamed Ahmed ben Omar Ouled M'Brirek - Polisario representative for the identification of Sahrawis[21]
  • Ahmed Moulay M’Hamed - Head of the Security Services[22]
  • Lfdal Malainine – director at the Education Ministry [23]
  • Ghoulam Najem Mouichane - representative in Germany [24]
  • Ahmed Ould Mohamed Abderrahman Cheikh Abdelaziz Rabani[25]
  • Hametti Rabani - Minister for Justice and Cults [26]
  • Mohamed Abdellahi Ould Mohamed El Mostapha Rabani - Lawyer[27]
  • El Haj Abdellah Ould Abdelkader Ould Rabani – Journalist [28]
  • Merrebih Rebbou[29]
  • Ahmed Ould Saleh - personal secretary of Ayoub Lahbib [30]
  • Baba Mustapha Sayed - Representative of the Polisario in Canada. Brother of El-Ouali Mustapha Sayed, founder and the Polisario[31]
  • Bachir Mustapha Sayed - foreign minister and coordinator with the MINURSO. A brother of El-Ouali Mustapha Sayed.[32]
  • Bouchaâb Yahdih - reprenstative of Polisario in France[33]
  • Cheikh Ali El Bouhali Hnini[34]
  • Daifallah Yahdih - former census official[35]
  • Cheikh El Mahjoub Ould M'Hamed Salem Ould Erraha - former census official[36]

The reports of the experiences of the former members of Polisario have generally been published in Moroccan newspapers supporting the government position on Western Sahara. The possibility to freely report on the problem of Western Sahara is limited in Morocco. (see: International Press Institute, World Press Freedom Review, 2005 Morocco)[37]

US Senator Donald M. Payne, from New Jersey has recently referred to some former members of Polisario during a hearing before the subcommittee on Africa: "Also several people who were in a position of authority in the Polisario camps, when serious human rights abuses including torture were widespread, particularly during the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, now occupy positions of authority in the Moroccan civil administration. This is based on information Amnesty International has been privy to." [38] This statement reflects badly on both Polisario and the Moroccan government. Neither has given any comment on it, as yet. It is not unlikely that mr. Payne's intention was to especially target the Moroccon government as he did not refer to the Amnesty International findings concerning the continuing impunity of present Polisario leaders guilty of these crimes [39]. Contrary to mr. Payne's statement none of the aforementioned former members of Polisario have been accused by Amnesty International of personal involvement in human rights abuses. If they were in any other way responsible for, or accessory to these facts can only be established by a comprehensive investigation of the whole Polisario leadership of that period. [40]



[edit] References

  1. ^ *[ http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/031025/2003102518.html ](Mustapha Barazani) The polisario was born in Rabat, not in the Sahara (d.d. 25 October, 2003)
  2. ^ [ http://www.aujourdhui.ma/couverture-details37379.html ] Polisario : Camouflets en série (5-7-2005)
  3. ^ [ http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/990730/1999073031.html ]Outpouring of grief in Tindouf compels Polisario to circulate release hailing late Hassan II's qualities (7-30-1999)
  4. ^ [ http://www.mincom.gov.ma/french/reg_vil/regions/sahara/d%C3%A9tournement_des_aides_humanitai.htm ] Détournement des aides humanitaires par le Polisario] 2000
  5. ^ [ http://www.albayane.ma/Detail.asp?article_id=58950&categorie=National ] Gajmoula Ebbi raconte son aventure avec le Polisario, ses rêves, son calvaire et ses attentes (13 november 2006)
  6. ^ [ http://www.albayane.ma/Detail.asp?article_id=58550 ] Mustapha Bouh, ex-membre du Bureau politique : «L¹histoire du «Polisario» est jalonnée de purges impitoyables» 13 november 2006
  7. ^ [ http://www.un.org/News/fr-press/docs/1996/19961010.CPSD108.html ]QUATRIEME COMMISSION: LE MAROC RESTE ATTACHE AU PLAN DE REGLEMENT ET A LA TENUE D'UN REFERENDUM TRANSPARENT AU SAHARA OCCIDENTAL 10 October 1996
  8. ^ [ http://www.albayane.ma/Detail.asp?article_id=58803 ] Gajmoula Ebbi raconte son aventure avec le Polisario, ses rêves, son calvaire et ses attentes (10-16-2006)
  9. ^ [ http://www.saharamarocain.net/modules/wfsection/article.php?articleid=2 ] Chronologie des Principaux Faits (5 november 2005)
  10. ^ [ http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/050330/2005033023.html ] Deportation of Sahrawi children to Cuba by 'Polisario' denounced (3-30-2005)
  11. ^ [ http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/991105/1999110536.html ] Report: Clan wars and unavoidable scission in Tindouf, defectors (11-5-99)
  12. ^ [ http://www.mincom.gov.ma/french/reg_vil/regions/sahara/actualite/archive/1999/akhbarNouakchott.htm] Un des plus grands magistrats du Polisario regagne le Maroc, affirme un hebdomadaire mauritanien (24 November 1999)
  13. ^ [ http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/990730/1999073031.html ] Outpouring of grief in Tindouf compels Polisario to circulate release hailing late Hassan II's qualities (7-30-1999)
  14. ^ [ http://www.aujourdhui.ma/couverture-details37379.html ] Polisario : Camouflets en série
  15. ^ [ http://www.mincom.gov.ma/french/reg_vil/regions/sahara/actualite/archive/observ-maurit.html ] Maâlainine Mohamed Khaled, observateur du polisario en Mauritanie: j'ai manipulé la Minurso- Abdelaziz nous a fait jurer sur le Coran pour bloquer le processus d'identification (27-11-1998)
  16. ^ [ http://www.aujourdhui.ma/contributions-details41079.html ] Octobre 1988 : l’implosion du Polisario (1-11-2005)
  17. ^ [ http://www.mincom.gov.ma/french/reg_vil/regions/sahara/d%C3%A9tournement_des_aides_humanitai.htm ]Détournement des aides humanitaires par le Polisario (MAP, 2000)
  18. ^ [ http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/050330/2005033023.html ] Deportation of Sahrawi children to Cuba by 'Polisario' denounced (3-30-2005)
  19. ^ [ http://www.albayane.ma/Detail.asp?article_id=58890 ] Gajmoula Ebbi raconte son aventure avec le Polisario, ses rêves, son calvaire et ses attentes (10-19-2006)
  20. ^ [ http://www.maroc-hebdo.press.ma/MHinternet/Archives_626/html_626/lecoup.html ] Le coup de maître (22-10-2004)
  21. ^ [ http://www.lereporter.ma/article.php3?id_article=1228 ] Mohamed Ahmed Ben Omar Ouled M’Brirek : « Les gens en ont assez d’attendre jusqu’à l’éternité »
  22. ^ [ http://www.mincom.gov.ma/french/reg_vil/regions/sahara/d%C3%A9tournement_des_aides_humanitai.htm ]Détournement des aides humanitaires par le Polisario
  23. ^ [ http://www.mincom.gov.ma/french/reg_vil/regions/sahara/actualite/archive/1999/Guerredeclans.htm ]Guerre de clans et scission inévitable à Tindouf, selon trois ex-responsables du Polisario ayant regagné le Maroc
  24. ^ [ http://www.mincom.gov.ma/french/reg_vil/regions/sahara/d%C3%A9tournement_des_aides_humanitai.htm ]Détournement des aides humanitaires par le Polisario
  25. ^ [ http://www.casafree.com/modules/news/print.php?storyid=2736 ]Trois cadres du Polisario regagnent le Maroc
  26. ^ [ http://www.aujourdhui.ma/nation-depeche46580.html ] Un représentant du Polisario à l'opération d'identification regagne le Maroc
  27. ^ [ http://www.casafree.com/modules/news/print.php?storyid=2736 ]Trois cadres du Polisario regagnent le Maroc
  28. ^ [ http://www.casafree.com/modules/news/print.php?storyid=2736 ] Trois cadres du Polisario regagnent le Maroc
  29. ^ [ http://www.saharamarocain.net/modules/wfsection/article.php?articleid=28 ]Interview avec Merrebih Rebbou
  30. ^ [ http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/991105/1999110536.html ] Report: Clan wars and unavoidable scission in Tindouf, defectors
  31. ^ [ http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/991206/1999120626.html ] Top Polisario figure defects separatists, joins Mauritania, daily
  32. ^ [ http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/991206/1999120626.html ]Top Polisario figure defects separatists, joins Mauritania, daily
  33. ^ [ http://www.maroc-hebdo.press.ma/MHinternet/Archives_584/html_584/geoliers.html ] Les geôliers de Tindouf mis à nu
  34. ^ [ http://www.map.ma/mapfr/discours/allegeance_cheikh_bouhali.htm ]S.M. le Roi Mohammed VI Mohjamed VI reçoit Cheikh Ali El Bouhali Hnini ayant regagné récemment la mère-patrie
  35. ^ [ http://www.moroccotimes.com/News/article.asp?id=15779 ] Polisario leadership lives in wealth to detriment of camps' populations, Polisario member
  36. ^ [ http://www.map.ma/fr/sections/boite3/onze_marocains_parmi/view ] Onze Marocains parmi les séquestrés des camps de Tindouf regagnent la Mère-patrie
  37. ^ http://www.freemedia.at :International Press Institute, World Press Freedom Review, 2005 Morocco[ http://www.freemedia.at/cms/ipi/freedom_detail.html?country=/KW0001/KW0004/KW0099/ ]
  38. ^ HEARING BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON AFRICA, GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS AND INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS OF THE COMMITTEE ON INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ONE HUNDRED NINTH CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION, NOVEMBER 17, 2005, p. 15 ( http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/intlrel/hfa24601.000/hfa24601_0f.htm )
  39. ^ http://web.amnesty.org/report2006/mar-summary-eng#8 (see Polisario camps)
  40. ^ Mohamed Abdelaziz has been both Secretary General of the Polisario Front and the President of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic since 1976.

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