Former 'Polisario' leader calls on humanitarian organizations to monitor their aid to Tindouf camps
Morocco-Algeria, Politics, 7/9/2005

Former "Polisario" leader, Hammati Rabbani, who lately returned to the homeland Morocco, called on humanitarian organisations to closely monitor the aid they send to the camps in Tindouf, South-West Algeria, for the aid is sold in other markets such as Zouirat in Mauritania and Tombouctou in Mali.

Hammati Rabbani Tuesday told 2M TV channel he faults humanitarian organisations for not checking where their aid go, for they are misappropriated by organised and non organised mafias, namely "Polisario" leaders, to enrich themselves causing several forms of injustice and corruption.

The Algeria-backed "Polisario" movement is sequestrating thousands of Sahrawis it has lured into Tindouf camps in 1975 after Morocco retrieved its Southern provinces, known as the Sahara. The movement, which claims the separation of the provinces from Morocco, uses the sequestered people to get international aid and sell it for its own profit.

The situation threatens the security and stability of the whole region, Rabbani stressed, adding "some of the aid is openly sent to Mauritania and Mali." He also said the people in the Tindouf camps, to whom the aid is destined are angry at the theft of the aid by the "Polisario," saying he was sure the upheaval that took place lately in several Polisario-controlled camps will be followed by other Intifadas.

Rabbani, a former top "Polisario" official, who had held twice the position of Minister of Justice and Religious Affairs in the self-proclaimed Sahrawi Republic (SDAR), as well as high positions in the security services of this phantom entity, fled on June 30 the Tindouf camps, in the Algerian territory, to return to Morocco.

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