The delegate of the Polisario Front in Spain, Abdulah Arabi, has censured the "double standards" that, in his opinion, the Government is applying due to its "silence" after the death of three members of the Sahrawi movement in a drone attack attributed to Morocco, including a high-ranking official and son of the former Sahrawi president Mohamed Abdelaziz.
In statements to Europa Press, Arabi explained that the offensive in which Lehbib Mohamed Abdelaziz, commander of the Sahrawi Army and member of the National Secretariat of the Polisario Front, died along with two other members, "adds to the numerous ones already committed, indiscriminately, by Morocco during recent years, especially against the Sahrawi civilian population."
According to the Polisario representative, these types of military actions, mostly carried out with drones, show that "Morocco demonstrates its zero predisposition to resolve the conflict" in Western Sahara, almost fifty years after Spain's withdrawal from the territory.
Arabi has criticized that, in the face of these types of Moroccan attacks, "the Spanish Government demonstrates, if possible, even more notably, the double standards with which it currently governs its foreign policy."
"Proof of this is that it only questions, investigates, and condemns events when they are produced by one of the parties," he stated, alluding to the fact that the Executive did condemn, through a message on social media from the Embassy in Rabat, the attack launched by the Polisario on May 5 in Smara, in the area of the Sahara under Moroccan control, which left no victims.
In contrast, the delegate of the Polisario Front has lamented that "when the victims are Sahrawis, the silence becomes deafening," and took the opportunity to personally extend his condolences to the relatives of the deceased.
Arabi also stressed that the Moroccan attack, perpetrated in the vicinity of the wall separating the area from the former colony administered by the Polisario, coincides with the visit of the personal envoy of the UN Secretary-General for Western Sahara, Steffan de Mistura, who is in the Sahrawi refugee camps in Tindouf (Algeria).
In this context, he announced that the Polisario Front will reiterate to De Mistura "its determination and conviction in the defense of the legitimate rights of the people of Western Sahara to self-determination and independence, whatever the cost."