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2005 on exactly 21st May, its the first day of the intifada in all the Western Sahara and southern Morocco. I was with my friends in El Aaiún city, we were involved in the intifada. I was caught two times by the government of Morocco during 2005 and spent three days in the police station. During 2006 the Moroccans caught three of my friends and so I had to leave El Aaiún because they were looking for me. I went to the desert with my father and stayed there for three months. After that I went back to El Aaiún city.
On the 14th October 2006 I took part in a big demonstration in El Aaiun with my friends. During this time the Moroccans [filmed] me because I had a big flag. So in the night the Moroccans enter my house searching for me, my mother she tell them she don't know anything about me. So after that my father he come and tell me Hamdi you must do something because the government he will catch you. I found one friend who had a lot of information about the wall and he told me if I wanted to go to the Polisario he could help me.
We drove to the desert and after one hundred and fifty or two hundred kilometres my friend told me that now we must walk. We walked and after ten or fifteen kilometres I remember he said to me, 'Hamdi I can't go with you now.' He told me the wall was thirty kilometres away and I was not to smoke or talk and that I must not think about the Moroccan soldiers or the mines. I walked on alone and after four or five hours I found myself in the wall, I think it was three o'clock in the night. There were lights coming from small rooms and I could hear some talk not far away from me. I crossed the wall and started running. I lived in the desert for two days and after that I found one man who took me to his small family living in the desert and after one day they took me the Saharawi camps in Algeria.
El Aaiún means 'eyes' in English. El Aaiún is my eyes. What do you think now? All my family is there, all my friends are there, all my past is there. You come here and in the night you can't sleep because you remember everything from your past. El Aaiún now is my dream. I want to see El Aaiún for just one day but I can't.
From 1991 to now the Saharawi people are waiting for the United Nations to do something. Saharawi people are sure the UN can't do anything. The government Morocco he don't care about anything because the war is stopped, and the Spanish and French governments and the American government are with them. I think if the Saharawi people want to take their independence they must go back to the war. I am sure in just maybe three or four or five years if the UN are not doing anything we will go back to the war. This is not peace and it is not war, it is peace just for the Moroccan government not for the Saharawi people.
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