Mauritania: Police Disperes Demostrations Defending the Black’s Rights
Mauritanian Soldiers attacking people, Nov 2024 Photo: EFE
November 28, 2024 Hour: 8:44 pm
The Mauritanian police forcibly dispersed two demonstrations on Thursday in defense of the rights of black Mauritanians who are victims of extrajudicial executions.
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One of them took place in the capital, Nouakchott, where the demonstrators, convened by the Association of Widows and Orphans of the Victims, went to the UN representation to present their demands, where the police prevented them from demonstrating, for which he used riot gear.
The second demonstration took place in the village of Bababe (400 kilometres south-east of Nouakchott, on the banks of the Senegal River), a security source said.
The gendarmerie also intervened to disperse the demonstrators and arrested a dozen of them.
Bababe is one of the localities to which the 28 black soldiers allegedly summarily executed on the night of 27-28 November 1990 in Inal (300 kilometres north-west of Nouakchott) belong.
November 28 is the anniversary of Mauritania’s independence, but many black Mauritanians describe it as a day of mourning for the Inal killings.
This massacre has never been publicly acknowledged by the Mauritanian governments.
Autor: OSG
Fuente: EFE-Africanews
