Fadel Ould Ali Salem, who recently returned to the homeland, Morocco, told the BBC TV channel on Monday  that the autonomy project launched by HM King Mohammed VI has spurred an in-depth debate among Sahrawis in the camps, as a serious political project likely to preserve the dignity of all and resolve this artificial  conflict.

    He insisted that this project has deepened the trust crisis between the population and the leadership of polisario, which, he went on, finds it now harder to convince the Sahrawis.

    In this regard, he stressed that "I believe in the viability of wide-ranging autonomy after I found about the polisario's reality, ideas and the secret aims of its creation.”

    Fadel Ould Ali Salem unveiled the involvement of Algeria in the blockade on the Sahrawis inside the camps, the supervision by Algerian officers of the training of polisario security elements and their participation in torture, kidnappings and assassinations.

    He said Algeria has always taken part in the decisions taken by polisario, and is not a host country as it makes out to be.

    Fadel Ould Ali Salem underlined that the number of the Tindouf population does not exceed 46,000, but the Polisario leadership has always inflated the number to receive more international aid, which is later sold by smugglers who have links to the separatists.