Original sentence: It was used as a stopping place for Sahrawi refugees en route to Tindouf, Algeria.Now mostly in ruins, Tifariti never had many fixed structures, due to the nomadic lifestyle of the Sahrawis, an Arabic-speaking bedouin people controlling the area since medieval times.Primarily a nomadic encampent, it was always a kind of seasonal city to the Sahrawis, and abandoned as a permanent place of residence during the 1970s.Tifariti is a small town or village located in Western sahara, in what the Polisario Front calls the Free Zone
Edited sentence: It was used as a stopping place for Sahrawi refugees en route to Tindouf, Algeriaduring the invasion phase.Now mostly in ruins, Tifariti never had many fixed structures, due to the nomadic lifestyle of the Sahrawis, an Arabic-speaking Bedouin people controlling the area since medieval times.Primarily a nomadic encampment, it was always a kind of seasonal city to the Sahrawis, and abandoned as a permanent place of residence during the 1970s.Refugee columns were bombed here by the Moroccan Air Force in 1975, with tens or hundreds of casualties depending on the source.These facilities were bombed and almost completely destroyed by Moroccan Air Force in 1991, in the last major attack of the war.Tifariti is a small town or village located in Western Sahara, in what the Free Zone, east of the Moroccan Berm