The debated election of Mohamed Abdelaziz for the 11th successive time at the head of the Polisario, did not bring him luck. The held for life leader whose struggle, with the support of Algeria, for the independence of the Western Sahara region, is severely shaken up at present with the rebel of young Sahrawis in Tindouf camps.
The young people, regrouped in the movement of the Sahrawi revolution youth , have manifested their opposition to the Polisario leadership with uninterrupted sit-in in front of the Polisairo headquarters.  At the end, the high spirits of slogans hoisted by the protesters, like the famous “clear off”, have put an end to the Polisario chief’s patience. The latter did not hesitate to use the great means to drive out the protesters. More than 50 militiamen have been sent in the night against the young protesters whose camps they have destroyed with a rare violence.

Many young people have been injured and at least three have been arrested. The Polisario militiamen have afterwards gathered in a hurry the posters stuck to cars, such posters which are hostile to Mohamed Abdelaziz. A task clearly not so hard as that of their colleagues, who had to erase the slogan “clear off” written along the pavement leading to the Polisario Secretary General headquarters. But despite of the suppression, the young Sahrawis of Tindouf did not declare to be overcome and say to be determined to continue their movement of peaceful protest.
The opposition to Mohamed Abdelaziz mediated since a long time already in Tindouf camps. A great part of the population accuses him of a disastrous management of the Western Sahara file and of having led the Sahrawi cause to deadlock.