Its activities at this stage do not seem to go beyond publishing pamphlets against the present Polisario Front leadership, and while it may affect internal Sahrawi politics, it is of minimal or no significance to the Western Sahara conflict.

The Khat al-Shahid uses the slogan "No hero but the people, no leader but the martyr", referring to El-Ouali Mustapha Sayed, the first Secretary-General of Polisario, who was killed in action in Mauritania in 1976.

A typical statement is its communiqué of 20 May 2005 (the 32nd anniversary of Polisario's first strikes against Spanish colonization), where the group demanded the "end to an occupation, and the raising of the flag of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic over the totality of its national territory".

The Muhammad Abdelaziz leadership is accused of: Furthermore, the Khat Al-Shahid movement has called on the Polisario Front to spare the budget allocated for celebrations of the 31st anniversary of the Sahrawi republic, and to use it for the benefit of the refugee population.

It accuses the Polisario leadership of "defeatist reasoning" and of caving into pressures (especially in accepting the Baker Plan), claiming that it benefits from the political stagnation caused by the cease fire.

[4] In 2006, at an interview with the Moroccan weekly TelQuel, the supposed Khat al-Shahid leader, Mahjoub Salek, declared that negotiations were the only way to resolve the conflict, and that all it needed was a signal from King Mohamed VI.

Mahjoub Salek (who resides outside of Algeria, mainly between Mauritania and Spain) continues to act as the spokesperson of the movement in different interviews, mostly on Moroccan media, reiterating his declarations in favor of the dialogue with Morocco and against the POLISARIO.