SPS POLISARIO
FRONT/ANNVERSARY
The President of the Republic put the first brick in the new building
of the Saharawi Parliament
22.05.05
Tifariti, 22/05/2005 (SPS) The
President of the Saharawi Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz, put on Saturday
the first brick in the new building of Saharawi Parliament in the city
of Tifariti (liberated territory of SADR), in addition to some 150
houses built for a group of Saharawi citizens by associations of
solidarity of Seville (Andalusia).
The ceremony took place in the margin of the celebrations that marked
the 32nd anniversary of the creation of Polisario Front (20 May 1973)
with the presence of many Spanish and Algerian delegations, as well as
deputies, members of the Government and hundreds of Saharawi citizens
who came from the different refuges camps and the neighbouring counties
to participate to the celebrations.
Tifariti town that receives the meetings of the XI congress of
Polisario, from the 12th to the 14th October 2003, is considered by
Saharawis as a symbol of resistance against the Moroccan colonisers who
invaded and militarily occupied the territory since October 1975
Two months after the invasion of the territory, the citizens who run
out of their cities because of Moroccan troops, would have to live a
different life from then on. Tifariti would experience that 1st January
1976 a first contact with intense Moroccan air forces’ attacks.
Hundreds of women and children were mutilated for the rest of their
lives, while tens others died.
The same year, in February, Moroccan tanks surrounded the city from the
east and west while it was defended only by a unit of Saharawi
combatant. Moroccan troops (FAR) then occupied the region for two
months before been withdrawn by Saharawi Popular Liberation Army (ALPS).
FAR would strongly return during the summer of 1977 to settle in the
region for less than two years. The decisive battle of Tifariti would
take place in Mars 1979, FAR would loose hundreds of deads soldiers and
other hundreds injured and would evacuate hastily abandoning the
biggest part of their weapons and military engines to Saharawi fighters.
Even before Moroccan invasion, Tifariti seems to be vouched for
resistance. In Mars 1912, the French expedition, that attempted to
establish the links with its troops in Morocco, under the commandment
of Captain Gerard, was exterminated in ‘’Gleib Akhchah’’, renamed for
the circumstances ‘’Gleib Chouhada’’ (Martyrs Mountain).
It should be noted that with the construction of the seat of the
Saharawi Parliament besides a hospital and a school, already built, as
well as the reception by the President of the Republic of South African
letters of credits as a new Ambassador to SADR, Polisario Front affirms
thus its presence on its homeland of which he liberated the third
before the enforcement of the cease-fire. (SPS)
SAHARA
PRESS SERVICE