I rise In support of House Concurrent Resolution 176. which calls attention to the egregious condition of human rights In the west African nation of Mauritania. The Government of Mauritania. controlled by Moors of Arab/Berber descent. systematically persecutes the majority population made up of nonArab. black Mauritanians. The list of violations committed against black Mauritanians Is horrifying: from forced deportations and extrajudicial killings. to reports of actual slavery. In April 1989. a border dispute with Senegal led the Government of Mauritania to forcibly deport 80.000 black Mauritanians. As many as 55.000 of these nonArab Mauritanlans remain encamped across the border and are not permitted to return to their homes.
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