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Inal, Mauritania

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Commune and village in Mauritania
Inal إنال
Commune and village
Country Mauritania
Government
 • MayorCheikh Ely Baba
Time zoneUTC±00:00 (GMT)

Inal is a village and rural commune in Mauritania, situated on the Mauritania Railway line from Nouadhibou to Zouerate.

On the night of November 27, 1990, 28 black soldiers arrested in the previous weeks were allegedly tortured, hung and buried in a "mass grave" at Inal, in a celebratory act of the nation's Independence Day. Similar acts of ethnic cleansing were sanctioned by the Mauritanian government, as part of a larger campaign of terror and human rights abuses against black Mauritanians, from the late 1980s to the early 1990s.

Many survivors of such violence who live in the area and other affected communities still demand justice.

References

  1. Bah, Abdoulaye (2018-12-04). "Ces 28 militaires mauritaniens pendus le 28 novembre 1990". Global Voices (in French). Retrieved 2018-12-15.
  2. Amnesty International Report 1990, London, Amnesty International Publications, 1990
  3. Duteil, Mireille (1989). "Chronique mauritanienne". Annuaire de l'Afrique du Nord (in French). Vol. XXVIII (du CNRS ed.).
  4. Press release, Amnesty International, 5 April 1991, 3,000 were arrested
  5. Ahmed, Gedo (2012-12-05). "Mauritania: Commemorating Inal's Massacre against Black Soldiers". Global Voices. Global Voices. Retrieved 2018-12-15.
  6. Sidya, Cheikh (2016-11-28). "Mauritanie-indépendance: entre célébration de la fête nationale et souvenirs douloureux". Le360 Afrique (in French). Retrieved 2018-12-15.

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Communes of Mauritania
Urban Industrial
Urban Agricultural
Rural Agricultural

21°15′N 14°57′W / 21.250°N 14.950°W / 21.250; -14.950


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