Qualla: Inal, Mauritania https://qualla.com/inal-mauritania en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:09 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Inal, Mauritania https://qualla.com/inal-mauritania Inal, Mauritania: Introduction https://qualla.com/inal-mauritania/ Inal is a small place, a village and rural commune strung along the railway that carries iron ore across the Mauritanian desert from Nouadhibou to Zouerate. Few maps would mark it for any other reason. But Inal carries a weight far heavier than its size, because on one terrible night its name was joined forever to a crime. On the night of 27 to 28 November 1990, the eve of Mauritania's independence day, at least 28 Black Mauritanian soldiers were hanged at the military base here. Inal remembers what the nation has tried not to.

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/e/v/2/inal-mauritania-wp/eev2-inal-mauritania-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Inal, Mauritania: The Men https://qualla.com/inal-mauritania/ They were soldiers of their own country, Black Mauritanians of the Halpulaar community, arrested in the weeks before during a wave of detentions. Accused of plotting against the government, they were taken to the base at Inal, and there, in the dark, they were tortured and hanged...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/e/v/2/inal-mauritania-wp/eev2-inal-mauritania-the-men.mp3 0:06 2 full Inal, Mauritania: A Wider Campaign https://qualla.com/inal-mauritania/ Inal was not an isolated horror but the sharpest edge of a larger one. Between late 1990 and early 1991, Mauritanian authorities arrested roughly 3,000 Black soldiers on accusations of plotting a coup, and by credible estimates between 500 and 600 of them were summarily executed ...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/e/v/2/inal-mauritania-wp/eev2-inal-mauritania-a-wider-campaign.mp3 0:06 3 full Inal, Mauritania: The Amnesty and the Silence https://qualla.com/inal-mauritania/ Justice never came. In June 1993 the government passed an amnesty law, Act No. 93-23, that shielded the members of the security forces from prosecution for the crimes of those years. It granted, in effect, immunity for torture, enforced disappearance, and extrajudicial killing, a...

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