Through his life, one can make a story of the ongoing conflict. Mohamed Eluali Akei (Aaiun, Western Sahara, 1950) has been the Prime Minister of the Democratic Saharawi Arab Republic (RSD) since February last year, when this historic leader participated in the creation of the liberation movement at the time of secret and clandestine cells, when Western Sahara was the 53 Spanish province. He was a military leader in the war with Morocco, and from the ceasefire he is in the political direction of the nation. He says he's just a militant. On the eve of the congress that the Polisario Front is going to hold in December, Berlusconi has had a long conversation with Berria.

In the last communiqué, the Polisario Front has spoken more forcefully than ever before. You have announced that you are prepared to break the ceasefire.

We have been waiting for peace for years, but it never comes. We have made great sacrifices and the suffering is enormous. If the world does not take into account the efforts we have made for peace under these conditions, we will have to take another course pending a solution that does not arrive. We don't love war, we know what it is, but we won't let our people be desolate that way. Patience has been exhausted. Therefore, all possibilities are now on the table, including a return to armed struggle.

Will you decide in Congress?

The Sahrawi people are represented in the congress and the decision will be taken there. The Sahrawi people no longer believe in the explanations of our political leadership. Young people will ask us what we think, who we are to choose peace in the face of the silence of the international community. What are they learning to live in the desert with no future? They accuse the Polisario Front of waiting, they accuse us and they have every right to do so.

We cannot tell them to wait another year. We cannot allow ourselves to see how our people are dying while the international community is anesthetized by the conflict. We have reached the border. Either the international community is once and for all implementing a peace plan and taking a firm step towards a referendum, doing what its resolutions say, or we are going to break the peace agreement. Sometimes it is better to die under a bomb than to allow the Sahrawi people to humiliate us. We will take our cause to the end, we will not let the cause die.

Has the latest UN resolution been disappointing?

This resolution shows that the international community is not committed to finding a solution: Minurso [United Nations Mission for the Referendum Organization in Western Sahara] has been limited to extending a further year.

It was set up to organize the Minurso, but it has not fulfilled its role.

Minurgo does nothing but protect the Moroccan occupation, letting this terrible situation slip and run out of content. What is it for? I don't know why the war ended, because we weren't defeated. Morocco agreed to hold a referendum with three options: to be Moroccan annexing the territory, to give it autonomy or to accept independence. This was taken up by the pact, which it does not currently approve.

The resignation of Horst Kohler, the last UN President for Western Sahara, took place in May. The position has not been fulfilled since then.

That's right. All the leaders have failed, from James Baker to Kohler. They have been major politicians and have made honest efforts. Morocco, for its part, is hampering and the international organization is being subjected to it. That is enough. France will continue to veto its seats on the [UN] Security Council. Spain’s responsibility is also there. We must go to the source: this is an unfinished decolonization, and we will not accept any solution that does not recognise the right to decide.

In Spain, PSOE and the United Nations We are on the way to forming a coalition of government. The support of the independence parties will be decisive. Do you expect a different attitude from a multi-coloured legislature?

All the governments that have been in power have maintained the same attitude, so it is clear that this is a strategic state and not a party state. All citizens must agree with the cause, all citizens must feel that responsibility and demand a questionnaire. Morocco cannot be a red line. Spain must correct a historical error.

Yesterday [21 November], he met with the Spanish Government delegate to the CAV, Jesús Loza, who showed him his support for international legislation. Isn't hypocrisy?

No. He has long been a friend of the Sahrawi people and I know that he is honest. It is true that it represents a government here, but it has its own view.

Is it not inconsistent?

[It calms].

Why don't you want to cross the red line?

Morocco brings forward a thesis: that stability is guaranteed while Western Sahara is theirs. This excuse is used. If the monarchy is dissolved in Morocco and a republic is formed, it is over! To press it, it uses three things: immigration, terrorism and drug trafficking. Every two weeks, or kicks are sent, or the fence is leaped, or a terrorist cell that doesn't exist is destroyed. Spain does not want problems.

There is also a question of natural resources.

Economic interests are above human and human rights.

He has been a minister of occupied territories for years. What is your situation?

There is the most violent repression imaginable. The Sahrawi people live in a military siege; cities, neighborhoods, streets, homes... Everything is monitored, so are the movements and the looks. They look at it all with a microscope or magnifying glass.

Human rights activists, however, go out to the streets to protest peacefully. What does this civil movement bring?

They have made a great contribution. They are trying to break the blockade and they have achieved international impact, they have achieved visibility and that has also influenced the diplomatic route, but things are going on and there have been no changes in the policy area.

There are also those who claim non-violent resistance.

They are only a few compared to those who claim war.

You seem to be part of the war yourself. Are you going to support it in Congress?

The one who knows war does not love war, but when there is no other way out... We live in a war that is not the only one that kills. Death must also be given meaning, and dying to defend what is yours is to die of joy. If necessary, then we will die men and women, young and old, exiled, in occupied territories and in diaspora. I believe in the Sahrawi people, in their courage, in their courage and in their commitment ... So we died slowly. At least it makes sense to die.

Is the Polisario Front ready for war?

The question is whether the Sahrawi people are prepared. When you take away something that is yours, you defend it with the word; but when you cannot with the word, you do it with what you have at hand: a stick, a knife, a sword, a rifle or an airplane.

We are prepared and we have the means. We fought with a pair of camels and three or four rifles in a war that lasted sixteen years. We have a lot of experience, we know the field and most importantly: we have convictions. And an account ... When war breaks out, you don't know how far it's going to go. Wars don't understand borders. You know where they start, but not how far the bombs are going to go.