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Africa North
Mauritania: Militants Against Slavery Arrested
2010-12-17
Hat tip Gateway Pundit and The Religion of Peace. Slavery. Chattel slavery. In 2010. I guess the British Navy has another job to do. As does ours.
(ANSAmed) - PARIS, DECEMBER 15 - Nine militants from an organisation that fights slavery in Mauritania were beaten and arrested on Monday after demonstrating to denounce the fact that two young girls aged 9 and 13 were being held in slavery in Nouakchott.

The Foundation for Human and Humanitarian Rights (FONADH) has demanded the immediate release of the nine militants, including the director of the organisation President of the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement (IRA), Biram Ould Dah Ould Abeid.

For its part, the police have stated that the militants attacked the security forces, injuring six officers, and that they then sacked the police station, shouting racist and abusive phrases. Photos of the policemen injured "by the throwing of stones and dangerous objects used by the demonstrators" were released to the media.

FONADH has launched an appeal to the authorities for the case of the two girls held as slaves to be treated with the necessary speed. Ould Dah is used to accusing the Muslim scholars of being responsible for the continuing slavery in the country, a practice that was abolished in 1981 that persists in several parts of Mauritania.

Last month the UN special envoy on forms of modern slavery stated that ''there are still very serious cases'' in Mauritania. (ANSAmed).
Posted by:Steve White

#2  It's much the same in many Pakistani madrassahs, mom. Charles Dickens had the bad variety of the species pegged.
Posted by: trailing wife   2010-12-17 23:26  

#1  http://www.seneweb.com/news/Societe/exode-les-talibes-senegalais-envahissent-la-mauritanie_n_37072.html
"Senegalese talibe (children studying the Koran) invade Mauretania"
It took me 40 minutes to read this using a dictionary. The gist of this article is that the children sent to "talibe" schools, spend almost all of their time begging for food. They are frequently beaten if they don't bring enough food or money. Evenings they recite the Koran in Arabic. As word on their living conditions gets out in Senegal, public opinion has turned against the practices and against the marabouts that run these talibe schools. Therefore, the marabouts are moving operations into Mauretania.
Posted by: mom   2010-12-17 17:30  

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