Front Polisario Khat al-Shahid
political party in Western Sahara
Front Polisario Khat al-Shahid (Khat al-Shahid, often with Spanish transliteration as Jat Chahid, is Arabic for Line of the Martyr) is a minor faction within the Front Polisario. It is based in the Sahrawi refugee camps of Tindouf, Algeria, but also claims to have supporters and members in the Sahrawi diaspora in Mauritania, Morocco, Spain, France and various European countries, as well as in the Moroccan-controlled part of Western Sahara.
Creation and relation to the Polisario Front
The organization announced its existence on 4 July 2004, issuing a communiqué named "Call to All the Sahrawi Nationalists". It accused the POLISARIO leadership of "incapacity to confront the invasor" and to "make successive concessions in the mark of the Peace Plan", also blaming the UN for the "dismal failure to implement its resolutions", and Morocco of "intransigence, systematic destruction of the Peace Plan" and "rejecting any hint of a solution out of their sovereignty over Western Sahara".
The document noted what Khat al-Shahid (until 2005 known as "Front Polisario El Uali") consider the greatest failures of the Polisario Front direction:
Use of a fatalist, defensive & negative instead of a brave, offensive & positive one.
The weakness of the UN & to the enemy by offering this one possibility to continue with its intransigence.
The lack of initiative has made us lag behind developments, while in the past, with our sacrifice and the blood of our martyrs, we were the protagonists of these initiatives.
No positive decision has been made since the cease-fire.
Lack of political will to include new people from the younger generations of scholars in favor of our national cause.
The gradual discarding of many individuals, both graduates and combat veterans leaders, protagonists of our national glories.
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