Human Rights Watch just released a report condemning Morocco's human rights record. The watchdog says Morocco suppresses the activities of human rights activists in the occupied Western Sahara. The report also criticizes the Polisario.
In August 2007 I spoke to Polisario leader Baba Sayed while visiting the refugee camps. His brother co-founded the Polisario movement.
The Polisario were planning their upcoming XII General Popular Congress in December. Sayed said that the congress needed to address the shortcomings of the Polisario. ” This congress must be a renaissance for us or it's over for Polisario,” he told me.
Apparently Sayed's often critical take on the Polisario had led him into hot water. He once asked for political asylum in a North American country after resigning from his post in Canada. Though this was in 1998. Things settled since.
I saw him at the EUCOCO conference in Spain having a right laugh with top Polisario officials including President Mohamed Abdelaziz.
