Saharan refugees, 1976

mais les Saharouis ne voulaient pas accepter une domination mauritanienne ou marocaine, se reunirent en-Algerie sous le Front Polisario et organiserent une guerilla contre les forces d'occupation) Neg1759/4 camp saharawi refugees , here in a tent of the Algerian Red Crescent, in West Sahara, may 1976, at the time of the proclamation of the SADR (Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic) by the Polisariio Front may 1976 (after Spanish troops withdrew from the Western Sahara in 1976, 300000 Moroccans staged a march into the territory. Morocco, which does have legitimate historical claims over the territory, signed a treaty with Mauretania, partitioning the territory. Yet Saharouis were not willing to accept either Mauretanian nor Moroccan rule. Refugees fled to-Algeria, from were the POLISARIO FRONT organized a guerilla war against the occupying forces)