On 20 May, the new organization attacked El-Khanga, where there was a Spanish post manned by a team of Tropas Nomadas ( Sahrawi-staffed auxiliary forces), which was overrun and rifles seized. Its first Secretary General was Brahim Gali. the Polisario abducted two more civilians in October. On May 1st 1977, the Polisario raided the city of Zouerate, Mauritania, kidnapping six French iron mining technicians and killing 2 civilians. They called themselves the Constituent Congress of the Polisario Front. The Polisario Front was formally constituted on at Ain Bentili by several Sahrawi university students, survivors of the 1968 massacres at Zouerate and some Sahrawi men who had served in the Spanish Army. ДЄfter attempting in vain to gain backing from several Arab governments, including both Algeria and Morocco, but only drawing faint notices of support from Libya and Mauritania, the movement eventually relocated to Spanish-controlled Spanish Sahara to start an armed rebellion. In 1971 a group of young Moroccan students in the universities of Morocco began organizing what came to be known as The Embryonic Movement for the Liberation of Saguia el-Hamra and Rio de Oro. It is a consultative member of the Socialist International. The Polisario Front is outlawed in the parts of Western Sahara under Moroccan control, and it is illegal to raise its party flag (often called the Sahrawi flag) there. The United Nations considers the Polisario Front to be the legitimate representative of the Sahrawi people and maintains that the Sahrawis have a right to self-determination.

In 2020 the Polisario Front declared the ceasefire over and resumed armed conflict. It forced Mauritania to relinquish its claim over Western Sahara in 1979 and continued its military campaign against Morocco until the 1991 ceasefire, pending the holding of a UN-backed referendum which has been consistently postponed ever since. The Polisario Front waged a war to drive out the two armies. Tracing its origin to a Sahrawi nationalist organization known as the Movement for the Liberation of Saguia el Hamra and Wadi el Dhahab, the Polisario Front was formally constituted in 1973 with the intention of launching an armed struggle against the Spanish occupation which lasted until 1975, when the Spanish decided to allow Mauritania and Morocco to partition and occupy the territory. The Polisario Front, Frente Polisario, FRELISARIO or simply POLISARIO, from the Spanish abbreviation of Frente Popular de LiberaciГіn de SaguГa el Hamra y RГo de Oro ( Popular Front for the Liberation of Saguia el-Hamra and RГo de Oro), (in Arabic: Ш§Щ„Ш¬ШЁЩ‡Ш© Ш§Щ„ШґШ№ШЁЩЉШ© Щ„ШЄШШ±ЩЉШ± Ш§Щ„ШіШ§Щ‚ЩЉШ© Ш§Щ„ШЩ…Ш±Ш§ШЎ Щ€Щ€Ш§ШЇЩЉ Ш§Щ„Ш°Щ‡ШЁ, romanized: al-Jabhah al-ShaКїbiyah Li-TaбёҐrД«r as-SДЃqiyah al-бё¤amrДЃКѕ wa WДЃdД« al-Dhahab), is a rebel Sahrawi nationalist liberation movement claiming Western Sahara.

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