[1] Many young people could not forgive the state for the killings, particularly with the absence of any investigation or questioning, as well as with the permanence of those responsible in their respective positions.
Among these was General Mohamed Oufkir, the second most powerful figure in the country behind King Hassan II, who on March 23, 1965 allegedly fired on the crowds from a helicopter.
It believed that a revolution—led by a party representing the interests of the proletariat, in order to shift power into the hands of the people—was necessary, particularly as conditions were prime for a revolution.
In 1972, Sahrawi student activists involved in Ila al-Amam and Harakat 23 Mars led by el-Wali Mustapha es-Sayed, inspired by Che Guevara and Fidel Castro and what they had achieved in the Sierra Maestra, published in the radical Moroccan literary magazine Anfas their desire to transform the liberation of the Sahara from Spanish into a mobile revolutionary hotbed from which would liberate the Moroccan people from the "regressive comprador system.
The revolutionary group decided to move toward work within a legal framework, creating the Organization of Popular Democratic Action in 1983.