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PUSL.- From 13 to 17 January the 16th Congress of the Polisario Front will take place in the Wilaya of Dakhla in the Saharawi refugee camps.
The congress is named after Shaheed Mohamed Khaddad, and has the slogan “Escalate the struggle to expel the occupation and achieve complete sovereignty”.
The message is clear “escalate the struggle”. One can interpret it as one wishes: the struggle in war, the struggle in the diplomatic, political and legal arena, or all actions simultaneously.
Few people believed that Polisario would take up arms again in 2020. Morocco’s thoughtless and arrogant action in violating the ceasefire was enough to reignite the conflict. However, it is worth remembering the multiple appeals and warnings from the Polisario Front to the Secretary General and the Security Council before it reached that point.
If one thing has been clear since the military invasion of Morocco in 1975 it is that the Polisario has always tried to reach a solution which would lead to the legitimate self-determination of the Saharawi people and the end of the occupation within the framework of legality and avoiding further armed confrontations.
The international community did not want to act, probably because it is guided by “realpolitik” which has little or nothing real about it and only reflects the wishes of those who think they own the world.
Look at the arrogance of Henry Kissinger at the beginning of the conflict when he said “I have no interest in another country in that region”.
The effrontery of thinking that his will could impose itself on the will of the Saharawi people, a legitimate will moreover.
This year has passed with many twists and turns in the international chessboard, but the game is far from over, the pieces are realigned according to the movements of one or the other.
Some see the Saharawis as a pawn, not as a rook, knight or bishop and even less as a queen or king, but remember the African saying: “If you think you are too small to make a difference, you have not yet spent the night with a mosquito”.
The lack of a realistic assessment of the will of the Saharawi people, despite the disadvantages in numbers and strength, will be the death of the enemy.
Some people expect much from the investigations underway in Belgium concerning Marrocogate, but the truth is that the scope of this corruption is so serious and far-reaching that it will have to be suppressed or it will endanger the very institution of the European Union.
Can it be covered up? Will justice prevail? We shall see.
The past year has not given any hope for a political solution to the conflict. Morocco remains unyielding and arrogant with its back protected by powerful friends in the UN Security Council, by the corrupt in the European Parliament and by a few sell-outs in the African Union even though the terrain there is not so favourable.
We wish the delegates of the congress, who are at an historic moment, every success and we hope that the powerful of the world will see that the only solution is self-determination for the Saharawi people and the immediate withdrawal of Morocco from the occupied territories.
Any other option will bring imbalance and instability to the region which will not be favourable to anyone in the world.
