Bir Lehlue(liberated territories) December29,2011(SPS) - The Polisario Front denied Wednesday in a communiqué the allegations published from Bamako involving it in cases relating to terrorism and drug trafficking in the region, pointing out that these allegations are part of "slanderous" campaign.
The office of the French Press Agency (AFP) in Bamako has recently argued that the Sahrawis are involved in the kidnapping of two French nationals in Hambori (northern Mali) and the agency continues for,sometime, through a series of dispatches, "without any evidence, that the Polisario Front engages now in drug trafficking, sometimes being connecting with AQIM or some Sahrawis, Polisario members, have formed a dissident of the terrorist organization "lamented the statement.
These information are part of a "slanderous," campaign sometimes claim that eight Sahrawis were arrested at the border between Mali and Niger and the next day, two Sahrawis who are involved in the kidnapping of two French in Mali, said the Saharawi coordinator with MINURSO, Mhamed Khadad, who signed the statement, received at SPS.
Also, he said that “the Government of Mali has confirmed to the Saharawi authorities through appropriate diplomatic channels, that it has not made any statements to the AFP in Bamako about Western Sahara, the Polisario Front and the Sahrawi people in general ".
The Polisario Front has denounced this information and "lack of physical evidence," distilled from office of AFP in Bamako, for some months and "more insistently in recent weeks," saying that "everything that has been peddled by AFP in Bamako on the relations between Mali, the SADR and Polisario Front is without foundation.”
He noted that to construct and support its "grotesque lies", these "canards" are often attributed to "anonymous sources" or to "document of Malian security services."
For the Polisario Front, the "media campaign" based on "fabricated assemblies (...) is an expansionist policy of a country that is illegally occupying Western Sahara for more than three decades."
The Polisario Front, finally, "protests vigorously against the actions of the AFP office in Bamako and calls for an end to this campaign of slander and vilification that does not honor a renowned agency like AFP, one of which primary goal is information, not the malicious propaganda”(SPS)
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