The following opinion piece by Kamal Fadel, the Polisario Representative to Australia, is a response to Moroccos proposal for limited autonomy for Western Sahaha, which would include a regional government with some control over local affairs, cabinet ministries and a local judiciary. This piece was first published in <http://www.onlineopinion.com.au>.
Kamal Fadel
On August 18, Richard Lugar, chairperson of the US Senate foreign relations committee, and acting as a special envoy of US President George Bush, oversaw the release by the Polisario Front of Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara of the last remaining Moroccan prisoners of war.
Western Sahara is a decolonisation issue that has been on the United Nations' agenda for almost 40 years.