Sahrawis in Tindouf Break the Silence: “It’s Time to Return to Morocco, Our True Homeland”
The propaganda carefully maintained for decades by Algeria’s military regime and its creation, the Polisario militias, is beginning to crumble. Last June, a courageous group of Sahrawis based in Mauritania, Europe, and even within the Tindouf camps announced the creation of the movement Peace and Return with Dignity. Their message is unequivocal: “It’s time to return to Morocco, our true homeland.”
In a statement, the movement denounced the inhumane and degrading conditions endured by thousands of Sahrawis in Tindouf, who remain hostages of a conflict artificially sustained by Algiers. Stripped of their freedom and silenced, they suffer under harsh repression, forced ideological indoctrination, and chronic misery imposed by Algeria’s military dictatorship.
Badi Abdelaziz, a former Polisario military officer and president of the founding committee, said the initiative responds to the call of families torn apart, separated from their loved ones for decades. He stressed that repatriation must take place in line with the 1974 agreement with the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), which requires the official registration of the Sahrawi populations held in Tindouf. Algiers has persistently blocked this process, fearing the truth: that a large majority of Sahrawis want to return to Morocco.
“Our name is our program: peace and return with dignity,” Abdelaziz affirmed, voicing support for Morocco’s autonomy plan as the only credible and realistic solution to the conflict.
The initiative exposes the hypocrisy of Algeria’s regime, which claims to defend Sahrawi rights while keeping them confined in squalid camps, deprived of their most basic freedoms. Behind its ideological rhetoric lies a cynical geopolitical calculation: exploiting human suffering to undermine Morocco.
As more and more countries acknowledge the legitimacy of Morocco’s autonomy initiative, Sahrawi voices are rising louder to say enough. Enough manipulation, enough captivity, enough of this human tragedy orchestrated from Algiers.
The message is crystal clear: the Sahrawis want to return to their homeland, Morocco, and put an end to half a century of lies.
Translated from Abderrazzak Boussaid’s French article – le7tv
