While Moroccan and Polisario negotiators were meeting in Manhasset for the 9th round of informal negotiations and the youth in the Tindouf camps were suffering the terror of the Polisario militias, the city of Laâyoune was experiencing an unprecedented diplomatic ballet. Never had the Parador Hotel received so many foreign visitors in such a short time. Indeed, emissaries from the American, British, and French diplomatic representations in Rabat followed one another to Laâyoune.

One of these emissaries, whom we met by chance, indicated to us that he and his peers were there to see for themselves the situation of the inhabitants of this beautiful city and the degree of respect for human rights by the authorities.

The Western emissaries, who met several people belonging to different categories of local society, confirmed to us, our interlocutor said, that they had recorded no hindrance to freedoms. People go about their business in complete tranquillity.

It should be noted that the Western diplomats met with local representatives, members of the National Human Rights Council, and several heads of associations who expressed their concerns regarding the deplorable human rights situation in the Tindouf camps.

The associative actors indicated to their local interlocutors that since the last Polisario congress held in December, this situation has continued to deteriorate due to the reappointment of the same team at the head of the separatist movement. But this deterioration reached its paroxysm since the appointment of Khattri Addouh to the head of the pseudo-parliament, who had been acting president since the disappearance of Mahfoud Ali Beiba. The young people who are multiplying protest marches denounce the irregularity of this appointment which, they say, is in contradiction with the law which stipulates that the head of this entity must be one of the elected officials, therefore belonging to the institution. However, this is not the case for Khattri, who was parachuted in by Abdelaziz and imposed by the DRS, the revolted youth claim.

Among the representatives of civil society who met the Western emissaries, some warned against the support provided by the Polisario to the Al-Qaeda nebula, through the sale of arms, while highlighting the danger represented by the trafficking of all kinds practised or facilitated by the leaders of the Polisario and their henchmen.

Citing human trafficking, one of the speakers asked the emissaries to visit certain neighbourhoods of the city to see for themselves the presence, in large numbers, of sub-Saharan Africans. Indeed, the various cities of the Saharan provinces have for some time been experiencing a massive influx of nationals from African countries, Senegalese for the most part. These populations from the south live, essentially, from small trade and begging. Apparently, at least, because some local circles accuse them of drug trafficking and charlatanism. This is the case of this Senegalese who relieved several inhabitants in Tan Tan of more than 1,400,000 DH that they had allegedly given him on the pretext that he was able to detect hidden treasures. It was a bad move for them, since this charlatan packed his bags and vanished into thin air.

According to this speaker, these sub-Saharan Africans entered Morocco with the complicity of traffickers in the pay of the Polisario.