Left to Die

Morocco Said to Abandon Hundreds of Migrants in Desert - New York Times

ALGIERS, Oct 14 (AFP) - The separatist Polisario Front movement said Friday it has located hundreds of African migrants abandoned in the Western Sahara desert by Moroccan security forces driving them out of the country.

"Since Wednesday, we have located four groups of clandestine emigrants cast into the desert on orders from the Moroccan government in several parts of the liberated zones of the Sahrawi Republic," the movement's leadership stated.

The UN refugee agency and a UN peacekeeping mission in the Western Sahara on Thursday said they were worried and seeking west Africans left to fend without water and food in the territory, disputed between Morocco and Polisario, at the start of the week.

The source may be dubious, but the story is horrific.