Shaheed El Hafed (Refugee camps), October 28, 2011 (SPS) – The Sahrawi Council of Ministers decided to take a series of security measures to protect people in solidarity with the Sahrawi people in the Sahrawi refugee camps and liberated areas, said a statement released following an emergency meeting held late Tuesday under the chairmanship of Mohamed Abdelaziz President of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) and Secretary General of the Polisario Front.
The Saharawi president declared that "the struggle of the Saharawi people is still going on until independence," underlined the statement received Thursday by the Sahrawi news agency SPS.
"Many security measures have been taken in the liberated territories and Saharawi refugee camps, particularly in regard to the protection of people in solidarity with the Saharawi people," said the Saharawi president.
He specified that such measures require more vigilance adding that the "fight against terrorism has been imposed on Sahrawis as the liberation struggle against the enemy was imposed in 1975."
The meeting also focused on the situation created by the abduction in the night from Saturday to Sunday of three members of European NGOs in the Sahrawi refugee camps.
From its part, the Saharawi Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Mohamed Salem Ould Salek asserted in a statement to the Spanish news agency that his government blamed "the abduction of three members of European NGOs in the Sahrawi refugee camps on the terrorist organization Al Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQMI)."
"The information and data available to the Saharawi authorities indicate that AQMI was responsible of the terrorist attack and the kidnapping of the three European partners," he added.
The three hostages were Aino Fernandez Corner, a Spanish citizen, a member of the Friends of the Saharawi people of Extremadura (Spain), Enrico Gonyalons, a Spanish citizen, member of the Spanish NGO MUNDUBAT and Rossella Urru, an Italian, member of the Italian NGO CCISPP. (SPS)
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