Former Spanish soldiers expressed Thursday in Rabat, their support for the Moroccan autonomy proposal, describing as the “most applicable” the Moroccan project to settle the Sahara issue.

Polisario has a dark record in terms of human rights violations in the Tindouf camps, in the past and the present, "said the Algerian intellectual, Anwar Malik, stating that Algeria has a great responsibility morally and legally in these violations because it houses Polisario on its land.

Forty-nine Sahrawis arrived during the last two days in the area of Oued Eddahab-Lagouira, from Tindouf camps (Algerian territory) which they fled to join the motherland, Morocco.

Polisario's security forces launched a wave of arrests against the Sahrawis held against their will in Tindouf camps, south-western Algeria, Laayoune's regional TV reported on Thursday.

The stalemate in the Sahara conflict and the absence of prospects for solving it have considerably increased the vulnerability of the Polisario Front and greatly reduced the legitimacy of the leadership of the movement, the Brussels-based European Strategic Intelligence & Security Center (ESISC) said in a report released on Tuesday.