is the end "legal" in a case which held the country spellbound since December 13.
Background: December 13, 2010, activists of human rights arise the home of the accused to report a confirmed case of slavery involving two minors. Would follow, the Commissioner, altercations with law enforcement when he served on Mr Biram Ould Dah Ould Abeid, President and member of the IRA group, a ban from entering the office of the commissioner.
Biram Ould Dah Ould Abeid is then, with his companions in prison. Their trial opened January 5, 2011 in a tense atmosphere. The defendants are on trial for "the act of unauthorized assembly, assault and battery against the officers of the court, setting up an unauthorized association, membership an unauthorized organization.
January 06, the verdict: Biram Ould Dah Ould Abeid was sentenced to six months in prison and a fine of 500,000 UM fine should serve as compensation to injured police officers considered the altercation which arose between the accused on December 13 last. His companions, Cheikh Ould Abidine and Alioune Ould M'Bareck Fall are condemned to the same penalty. His companions, Balla Touré Ould Dah Ould Mouloud Boushab and are Bouby , them, sentenced to suspended prison sentence and a fine of 100,000 MUs.
The trial and verdict were immediately condemned by organizations Defence of Human Rights and enflammme Press.
Slavery in the center of the debate:
The January 13 opening of the trial Oumelmouminine mint Bakar Vall and mothers of two minor for "minor operation". Requires the Prosecutor against the "boss", a prison sentence of one year closes. The Court will be more lenient, and January 16, is pronounced against Oumelmouminine mint Bakar Vall a prison sentence of six months firm. 6 months suspended sentence is pronounced against the mothers of two girls whose case was originally the case.
The indictment of Oumelmouminine mint Bakar Vall had raised hopes among supporters of Human Rights and could suggest a change in the law. For the first time people were found in a case of slavery.
Disappointment is a reflection of the charges against three women. The latter not being punished for slavery but for "minor operation", the debate comes back to square one.
For years activist of Human Rights and Political tear on the concept of slavery: "legacy of slavery" for some, "Slavery proved" for others, the debate divides Mauritanian society profoundly.
regular business of documented cases of slavery in the news. Complaints are filed. But justice remains silent despite the 2007 law criminalizing slavery. This law promises sanctions against those found to slavery. But until now no "master" or "mistress" has yet been found.
And this is not the verdict against Oumelmouminine mint Bakar Vall will pacify the debates.
Because the central issue is that of haratins, free by law, but maintained, many of them, status in social and economic subservience. Exploited, underpaid, despised, they are the last few years, the issue became political forces: for some, as Biram Ould Dah Ould Abeid, they are not "Moorish" but belong to the "black Mauritanians." For others they are "Arab". So participating in ideological movement that wants that Mauritania is an Arab country.
Anyway Haratines they are Haratines they remain in a society heavily influenced by sociological factors that make the perverse "task" original can not be erased.
The various economic crises have thrown tens of thousands of haratins to the slums of big cities or the "Triangle of Poverty," where they survive in difficult economic conditions.
The various attempts to "liberate" the law Haratins were not accompanied by economic measures for the emancipation effective against the old masters, meant that many stayed in the lap of former owners.
They were also the most pernicious policy issues, playing against their will, the role of "foil" of people in the South hunted after 1989. Land was offered to families haratins, especially emptied in the southern part of its population during the painful events of 1989 and 1990.
Since announcing the return of refugees from Senegal can not count the open conflict between these Haratines and former owners of the land they till now.
Explosive situation despite denials of political power.
The big question of how many people are Haratins is a taboo question: no statistics, no lists, no BOM "official". Motus official and formalized. The question
angry, annoyance to the summit of the state.
Face pressure from donor state, through the 2007 law meant to criminalize slavery, seemed to want to finally tackle the problem.
The trial of the case "Oumelmouminine mint Bakar Vall" has just broken hopes. Justice has missed an opportunity to finally practice slavery and survivals that plague the Mauritanian society at the center of political attention. Another missed appointments with history .... Mariem Mint
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