The Saharawi Movement for Peace asks De Mistura for protection after the death of three members of the Polisario Front
The three young men belonged to the Polisario Front militias and died after the Moroccan army responded to their attacks
The Sahrawi Movement for Peace has issued a statement asking for protection from the personal envoy of the United Nations Secretary General to Western Sahara, Staffan de Mistura, after the death of three members of the Polisario Front.
The information available so far suggests that the three members of the Polisario Front initiated hostilities in the area of Guelta Zemmour, close to the fortified line established by the Moroccan army.
The latter responded with a drone operation, firing on the vehicle occupied by the Polisario members and killing the three occupants.
In the letter, addressed to Staffan De Mistura and signed by the first secretary of the Movement Saharawi for Peace, Hajj Ahmed Bericalla, the results of the attack by the Moroccan Armed Forces are reported and the young men who died (one of them Saharawi) are identified as ‘members of one of the Polisario units’.
According to the letter, the identities of the deceased are: Abdul Rahman Ashbal; Mohamed Lamine and Mahfouz Mohammed Saleh.
In Bericalla's words, ‘there are other families, Saharawi women and children, who have been crying all this week, after the continuous processions of death in a war that can only produce these results’.
The leader of the Saharawi Movement for Peace asks De Mistura that he ‘hope and pray that you do everything in your power to stop this madness’, and concludes his letter by pointing out that ‘there is no reason, no matter how just or holy, that justifies all this pain in families, especially knowing that these are useless deaths’.