Polisario Front Worries About Morocco’s Army Alert
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Morocco’s military deployment raises the Polisario Front’s fears of possible “Moroccan aggression” on Western Sahara.
Following the unprecedented deployment of Moroccan Army units in vital and strategic locations across the country, including Western Sahara, Polisario officials have sent an open letter to the United Nations, expressing theirfears ofa possible Moroccan attack.
Polisario’s leaders see Morocco’s army alert as an unprecedented mobilization of the Moroccan army, the largest since the signing of the ceasefire between the Sahrawi and Moroccan armies on 6 September 1991.
Mohamed Abdelaziz, Polisario’s leader, said that Morocco deployed its army in the Western Sahara last week, backed by land and air forces, which have been put on high alert.
Mohamed Abdelaziz goes sofar as to claim that Morocco may launch a dangerous aggression on the so-called “Sahrawi people”, along with the United Nations and the entire international community based in Western Sahara.
Polisario said that such action would be a “violation of the ceasefire in effect between the two sides to the conflict”.
‘‘It would have serious consequences on the efforts of the United Nations and on peace, security, and stability in the region,” Mohamed Abdelaziz said.
According to Hespress, Polisario officials called upon the United Nations’ Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to “immediately intervene and take all necessary measures to prevent Morocco from perpetrating such action.”
Morocco’s military raised the alert status after Western intelligence warned Morocco,Algeria, and Tunisia from possible terrorist attacks using the 20 million weapons(including 20,000 portable air-defense systems) that have fallen into the hands of the Libyan Islamists during the recent fighting.
