Rabat. .- The city of Dakhla, situated in the Western Sahara has been the scene this weekend of serious disturbances which the authorities accuse "pro Polisario elements," while sources indicate that Sahrawi clashes were triggered by Moroccan civilians. MAP said the Saturday night a car with five people inside, intentionally ran over two people, and one of them, Hamid Charfi, 53 years old, died.
The wali (governor) of the region of Oued Eddahab, Chabar Hamid, told the Moroccan news agency have been 10 the total number of wounded, while Sahrawi human rights associations unknown at the moment the exact figure. According to Efe said a member of the Sahrawi Association of Victims of Grave (ASVDH), the night of Friday to Saturday Moroccan civilians went to the Saharawi neighborhoods and began attacking the houses, and soon after the first clashes erupted.
The Saharan took to the streets and gathered in the neighborhood of the Mosque of Dakhla, the source said, adding that the latter clashes started late in the morning of Saturday, when a person took out a flag of the Frente Polisario, and continued until approximately 12.00 local time (12.00 GMT).
The source of the ASVDH reported that upon completion of the unrest, Moroccan civilians and policemen were reloaded into houses and gas bottles used for fires. A total of 31 houses and 85 cars were destroyed, said the ASVDH, also stressed that today a group of Saharawi reported the incident to the wali, Hamid Chabar, and are now grouped in different neighborhoods of the city, while the forces maintain security surrounded the area.
For its part, Chabad told MAP that "separatist elements tried to create trouble, at first only among young people, to undermine the climate of stability in the region." He noted that during the night from Friday to Saturday in some neighborhoods took place Dakhla vandalism perpetrated by separatist "Polisario".
The Wali said that four cars were set ablaze with gas cylinders stolen from the shops, and there were also acts of vandalism in local shops, a bank and a credit bureau. After the clashes Djala music festival was canceled for security reasons. The riots this weekend coincides with the 35th anniversary of the creation of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), founded on February 27, 1976, a day after the official withdrawal of Spanish troops from Western Sahara. 
The wali (governor) of the region of Oued Eddahab, Chabar Hamid, told the Moroccan news agency have been 10 the total number of wounded, while Sahrawi human rights associations unknown at the moment the exact figure. According to Efe said a member of the Sahrawi Association of Victims of Grave (ASVDH), the night of Friday to Saturday Moroccan civilians went to the Saharawi neighborhoods and began attacking the houses, and soon after the first clashes erupted.
The Saharan took to the streets and gathered in the neighborhood of the Mosque of Dakhla, the source said, adding that the latter clashes started late in the morning of Saturday, when a person took out a flag of the Frente Polisario, and continued until approximately 12.00 local time (12.00 GMT).
The source of the ASVDH reported that upon completion of the unrest, Moroccan civilians and policemen were reloaded into houses and gas bottles used for fires. A total of 31 houses and 85 cars were destroyed, said the ASVDH, also stressed that today a group of Saharawi reported the incident to the wali, Hamid Chabar, and are now grouped in different neighborhoods of the city, while the forces maintain security surrounded the area.
For its part, Chabad told MAP that "separatist elements tried to create trouble, at first only among young people, to undermine the climate of stability in the region." He noted that during the night from Friday to Saturday in some neighborhoods took place Dakhla vandalism perpetrated by separatist "Polisario".
The Wali said that four cars were set ablaze with gas cylinders stolen from the shops, and there were also acts of vandalism in local shops, a bank and a credit bureau. After the clashes Djala music festival was canceled for security reasons. The riots this weekend coincides with the 35th anniversary of the creation of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), founded on February 27, 1976, a day after the official withdrawal of Spanish troops from Western Sahara.
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