Comments on: Arabeyes: Mauritanian President Ousted in Military Coup d'état

By: Global Voices Online » Mauritania: A New Era?

Global Voices Online » Mauritania: A New Era? — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 07:59:14 +0000

[...] a coup d'état a year ago, the election of the coup's leader, General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, to the [...]

By: Mauritania: Views Combined & Democracy | Strangely Perfect

Mauritania: Views Combined & Democracy | Strangely Perfect — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 10:12:46 +0000

[...] post, http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/08/06/arabeyes-mauritanian-president-ousted-in-military-coup-deta... ,and it’s associated comments provide a lot of extra information on the recent coup [...]

By: ahmad

ahmad — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:12:11 +0000

06.08.2008
Arabeyes: Mauritanian President Ousted in Military Coup d’état The democratically elected Governemnt of Mauritania has been alarming the arabic Dictators and their foreign sponsors very well. So the militarily led coup d’etat must have been blessed by arabic Kings and authoritarian Regimes, who would love to end every glimmer of Hope for Democracy in the arabic World .
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http://ahmadannan.webs.com/antiglobalization.htm

By: حبيب

حبيب — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:15:51 +0000

Quote: “This way, Mauritania, which was just about to reap the fruit of democracy in a pioneering move which the entire region was eyeing with excitement, things return to what they were originally, and the military intervened and the coup happened.”

It’s never too late for Mauritania to become a little more democratic. Patience! Patience!

By: rachel

rachel — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:49:10 +0000

thanks for the links, jillian!

not much info on this (esp in english)

thought you might be interested in this:

http://theelephantschild.blogspot.com/2008/08/mauritainian-youth-say-whhhhhhaaatt.html

By: alle

alle — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:26:45 +0000

Kowri, the Arab press never writes much of anything about Mauritania… but you’re right. Of course, the language means that most people writing about Mauritania in Arab newspapers are, well, Arabs.

I noticed the FLAM, a radical southern/Black Mauritanian group in exile in Senegal, has denounced the coup. They seemed to be close to making peace with Sidioca before…

http://www.flamnet.net/actualit_/view/1761/nouvelobs_com_

By: Kowri Soh

Kowri Soh — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:52:29 +0000

I just tumbled onto this blog, while I was browsing the Internet for the latest information about the recent military coup in Mauritania, an African country that a has an inferiority complex of wanting to be Arab, at all cost.

I was born in Mauritania, educated in Mauritania, and worked in Mauritania as civil servant for many years, in many parts of the country.

I would not say Africa is a cursed continent, but I am in a position to say that Mauritania is a cursed country for the following reasons:

a) Mauritania is a cursed country because it practices slavery on the Haratins, a large segment of its muslim population.

b) Mauritania is cursed country because it is a racist country. Its blatant racism is sponsored by the different Arab-berber regimes of the country, since its independence from France on November 28, 1960.

Although the Black population (all muslim)constitutes 80 % (of the total population), they continue to be marginalized economically, socially, and politically. They are presented only to 5% in all aspects of government.

c) Mauritania is a cursed country because a genocide has been committed against the Black population (1989-1991) by Maouya Ould SIDA Ahmed, a military racist criminal dictator who was in power (from December 12, 1984 to August 5, 2005). Hundreds of these citizens were arrested, tortured, and executed in cold blood, while thousands other were deported to Senegal and Mali, because they refuse to adhere to Mauritanian policies of arabization.

These are facts about Mauritania.

Why the Arab press never denounce Mauritania?

I really would like to know.