Word: mauritania
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...previous involvement with radical Islam, according to Moroccan authorities. The operatives were radicalized and trained for their suicide mission in a mere four months. Some had been sent abroad for instruction ahead of the strike - possibly to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates or the Islamic Republic of Mauritania. Moroccan officials also tell TIME there's evidence some bombers may have visited Afghanistan, to receive guidance from al-Qaeda officials. The result of that planning was a spree of five tightly synchronized bombings in Casablanca, killing 42 - including 12 of the bombers - and wounding over 100. One investigative find...
Tragically, most of these slaughters are only visible in retrospect due to the opacity and isolation of these regimes during their rule. Thus, we should be watchful for contemporary states that are masking dangerous usurpations of political power, such as in Venezuela, Zimbabwe, China, Turkmenistan, Sudan and Mauritania, to name a few. Recent regimes in Uganda, Burundi and Indonesia have murdered hundreds of thousands of their own citizens...
...situation in the Sudan is not unique. For instance, in another African country, Mauritania, blacks are born into slave-holding Arab families and treated as non-human property to be bought, sold, traded or inherited...
...both of these countries, the vast majority of US citizens are ignorant of this problem. American children learn of slavery only in history class, where they are taught that slavery was abolished in 1865. There is very little media coverage dealing with the atrocities occurring in the Sudan and Mauritania, or with the many other forms of slavery that take place all over the globe. Due to this lack of information there is a lack of desire among Americans to fight against slavery in the modern world...
...against slavery today. You are probably familiar with Frederick Douglass, an abolitionist of the 1800s, but how much do you know about some other former slaves who speak out as abolitionists in Massachusetts right now—people such as Francis Bok of the Sudan and Ahmeimidi Khaliva of Mauritania? I’m guessing that both names are new to you, so why not take a few minutes to learn their stories...