"Those who killed continue to work and walk as if nothing had happened '.
These are the words of Mr. Brahim Ould Ebetty which reacted on the role of civil society in improving human rights and humanitarian final salary liabilities. The occasion was a symposium on the fiftieth anniversary, organized by the FONADH, 03 and 04 December 2010.
"Men were coldly killed in 1989. "
"The events of April 1989 were acts of power and not facts populations. I reject any attempt to take these events to a particular community.
When the power attempted to recur in 2000, you saw women who invaded the garage, brought meals and refused that there is a further recurrence. If the momentum of major general was everywhere in garages and on all roads in the country during the events of 1989, the tragedy would not have taken the known proportions.
Following these events, several officers and NCOs, soldiers were arrested in various army barracks. Poisoning, attempted murder, while a scenario, no one spoke, no information is filtered. But one day someone who lived all that had happened to Jreida left the country.
He told RFI and explained what happened. That men were killed in cold blood. Subsequently, we started talking about the trial. We had tents in Wad Naga to ask lawyers to plead. Lawyers gathered to say they are not there to justify a trial whose results are known in advance.
Even if one or two lawyers tried to get to Jreida. They were rejected by the prisoners afterwards, so the lawyers have refused to cover a show trial. It later that the trial was adjourned sine die.
"The amnesty law was passed by MPs who were in the party of power".
"Three weeks later rained, the late Cheikh Ould Boyd gets a call from the Presidency to demand the release of all detainees. Cheikh Ould Boyd, in turn calls Ahmed Ould Bekrine, former Chief of Staff of the Gendarmerie, which is currently the Secretary General of the Defence Minister and tell him that the president has ordered to release all those arrested. And it has freed all prisoners in anonymity.
And they began to make a disclosure to say that this person was killed Jreida at Azlat to Inal. That was in 1991-92. It later that lawyers have taken the matter in hand. It is in honor of the National Bar Association. They wore complaint, following the report was done by "Acting Together" for human rights.
I will not forget this petition that many people have signed to appeal ruling against "Acting Together". Yet the Patriots Mauritanian were standing to denounce what happened and describe the reality of all the atrocities. When a complaint was filed, the attorney general has denied saying it can not be seized.
"Because you do not have permission from the Chief of Staff to initiate proceedings against the senior officers? "Curious as we are, we went digging through the archives of the Supreme Court and we ran into a stop advisory issued by the Supreme Court at the request of Defense Minister to answer the following question: Is that in case of committing a crime or a crime committed by an officer, the proceedings may be commenced or necessarily must have authorization from the Chief of Staff?
This ruling was advisory issued July 15, 1991 against the advice of the Supreme Court. The reason why the attorney general had dismissed the prosecution fell into the water because of the ruling by the Supreme Court and requested the Department of Defense.
Again, we take the attorney general asking that "we put a stop to it by the Supreme Court and we ask him to grasp and we pursue prosecutions against soldiers who have committed heinous crimes. Faced with this situation, the attorney general is slow to respond. And suddenly the order was given to some members to initiate the famous amnesty which was an initiative of some members to grant amnesty to all those facts. The only member
independent of the time, Mr. Sid Ahmed Ould Habott, had contacted us to ask what he can do. We told him he could intervene by proposing an amendment to the amnesty law to at least give it a human character.
And the member proposed an amendment to this Act which comprises two main components: a disciplinary penalty, and other compensation paid out of the operating budget of the State. The member Habott who voted for his amendment. The amnesty law was passed by MPs who were in the ruling party (Editor's note: PRDS). Therefore, "Acting Together" had said at the time "crime confessed in Mauritania."
"The famous letter dated 04/04/1993 addressed to Maaouya.
"So far we have not given up. We wrote to the Minister of Defence, Justice, the President of the Republic to say that crimes are not resolved by amnesties. What we seek is peace of heart and as long as that peace is not found, the amnesty does not solve the problems. "Intervene Please, Mr. President (Taya) to solve this problem. We wrote
the famous letter 04.04.1993, to "ask the President (Taya) do everything possible to intervene before prosecution at the international level is called. Even if there 's amnesty in Mauritania, crimes of torture are unforgivable. Crime scenes can not be amnesty.
Therefore, we have taken the President, but instead listen to us, it's more action against the lawyers and NGOs in human rights. But despite all this, we continued. This problem was posed by a group of NGOs at the African Commission on Human Rights Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR) which, in its sale of Algiers, made recommendations very famous.
They asked the Mauritanian government to solve this problem. When even these recommendations have been made, we have officially entered the Mauritanian authorities inviting them to address this problem. In 2005, the issue was again raised, but the transition authorities have denied that the issue of liability is integrated into the humanitarian issues for discussion during the transition. "
"The children killed in 1989 have become major .
"In fact in 2007, that there 's been a debate on the issue. The first public debate organized by the Mauritanian authorities. We talked about issues of deportees, liabilities humanitarian. And since 2007, speaks of the liability without signing a humanitarian approach. We continue to drag this up because this is offensive issues that have been neglected, such as moral rights, then we are talking about compensation and pension.
liabilities is not a humanitarian issue of African negro, is a question of all Mauritanians. It's our problem. This is not a political problem, but it is a human problem that we all manage. A problem that requires a final and consensual, which will store the memory right, justice, reparation.
is very serious that people who were killed continue to work and walk as if nothing had happened. Children killed in 1989 became major. They can not continue to grow resentment and frustration that are the real causes of all tensions instability. We must guarantee a right to memory, justice and compensation.
Compensation will last. If these issues are taken into account, I think we can evolve. We want our children to understand that we all work and all parts of the country so that this problem is resolved. That those who currently govern realize the seriousness. "
Proceedings of Dialtabé
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