Inal is a village and
rural commune in
Mauritania
Mauritania, officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, is a sovereign country in Maghreb, Northwest Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Western Sahara to Mauritania–Western Sahara border, the north and northwest, ...
, 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
External links
"Black Memories" (Documentary, Ousmane Diagana) - YouTube
Communes of Mauritania
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