The Polisario kidnaps another girl in the Tindouf camps after she went to see her family in Spain
This new story of holding a young woman hostage in the Tindouf camps by members of the Polisario Front began a month ago. Felah was able to contact a food delivery service company from Spain, Butincon, and through this channel she was able to ask Hammada to do everything possible to get her out of Tindouf, according to Suit Información magazine.
Hammada returned on December 10 to Malaga (Spain) where she lives and spoke with her Spanish family. They agreed that the Spanish family would pay for Felah's documentation, which means paying the commission to the Algerian Military Police in Tindouf, which is the safe-conduct at a cost of 2,500 euros that a Saharawi needs to be able to move around Algeria.
With the safe-conduct obtained, they took advantage of the fact that Felah, who had just come of age, 18 years old in Spain, was at a wedding and they took her out of the camps, secretly in a Buticon car and took her to Oran (Algeria). She is currently in Oran, in a safe house, not in the consulate. She is awaiting the arrival of a Spanish lawyer to petition Spain through an emancipation process, since in Algeria the age of majority is reached at 19, so now Felah is still considered a minor, according to Suit Information.
Repression and business in Tindouf
Meanwhile, the Polisario, its acolytes and the family, tribe of the girl, a relative of Jira Bulahi, have threatened the two partners of Buticon, Louali Salem Douh and Hammada Saleh Moulud, to kill their family in the camps in retaliation for having participated in a "multitude" of abductions of women in the camps. In reality, they have contributed to the escape of many people from the precarious situation in Tindouf, where an authoritarian regime prevails and its leaders use it as a business for their own benefit, while the inhabitants of the camps suffer very precarious living conditions.
In recent months, several reports from various institutions, including the European Parliament, have collected the complaints of the Sahrawis about their living conditions, the lack of freedom of movement, expression and assembly, as well as the shortage of food, water, medicine, gasoline, among other basic products for a dignified life.
Denouncement at the United Nations
In August, the first secretary of the Saharawi Movement for Peace (MSP), Hach Ahmed Baricalla, reported the sending of a letter to Staffan de Mistura, personal representative of the UN Secretary General for Western Sahara, denouncing the deterioration of the living conditions of the Saharawis in the Tindouf camps.
"On the occasion of World Humanitarian Day let me draw your attention as UN Special Envoy for Western Sahara to the deteriorating living conditions in the (Tindouf) camps...," writes the first secretary of the SPM in the letter published by Atalayar.
"In Tindouf the situation is increasingly worrying not only because of the extreme conditions but also because of the scarce presence and the deficient role of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) which leaves tens of thousands of people, mainly women and children, without proper protection and assistance," he adds.
"Another cause for concern," he continues, "is the lack of freedom and insecurity due to the prevailing restrictions in these camps by the Polisario and the growing activity of drug mafias and organized crime.
"In order to contribute to your personal efforts for peace, the Saharawi Movement for Peace (MSP) called for a new Saharawi dialogue in the framework of the II International Conference for Peace and Security in Western Sahara. It would be important and encouraging if you or a member of your office could attend the event", underlines Hach Ahmed Baricalla in the same letter.
