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| Chief of W. Sahara Polisario Independence Group Dead |
| 2016-06-01 |
| [An Nahar] The Polisario Front which demands the Western Sahara's independence from Morocco said its secretary general Mohammed Abdelaziz died on Tuesday "after a long illness," Algeria's APS news agency reported. Abdelaziz, who was in his late 60s, had led the Algeria-backed Polisario since 1976 after the group was founded three years previously to struggle for independence for the former Spanish colony. APS said he had been suffering from lung cancer, but the Polisario gave no further details on the circumstances of his death. "This is a great loss for the Sahrawi people," Polisario official Mohammed Keddad told AFP. "He sacrificed his life for the liberation of Western Sahara. He embodied the wisdom and a sincere and firm commitment to its liberation," he added. |
| Posted by:Fred |