Former Tunisian President Criticizes Algeria’s Treatment of Sahrawi Refugees in Tindouf Camps

During a videoconference meeting initiated by an Algerian association on the situation of freedoms and democracy in Algeria, the former Tunisian president, Moncef Marzouki, indicated that "the declining Algerian regime is selling illusions to the Sahrawis it holds hostage in the service of a fallacious political choice".

The Algerian regime has committed a crime against its own people, who have rebelled against it, against the Maghreb Union and against the Sahrawis held hostage in Tindouf for four decades, in complex situations, questioning the "illusions it is selling" reports Maroc-diplomatique, citing the former Tunisian president, according to whom the techniques experimented since independence by this regime, "which cannot be reformed and which is in political and moral decline", have become obsolete in the face of a disoriented people.

Mr. Marzouki believes that "the Polisario separatists, taken hostage by the Algerian regime, are chasing a chimeric homeland that will never exist", finding it better for them to live under Moroccan sovereignty, instead of "being under the protectorate or pressures in an Algerian Saharan region". They can live in Tunisia or work in Libya or Algeria and participate in the elections that will take place in the countries of the UMA, in an adequate space, ensuring them a dignified life among 100 million Maghrebians, he concluded.