General information

Call No.:

392-2-3:4/1

Part of series

HU OSA 392-2-3 Video Recordings of WITNESS: WITNESS Partners' Raw Footage: Institute of Human Rights and Development in Africa

Located at

DVD-ROM #4 / No. 1

Digital ver. identifier

HU OSA 392-2-3_004

Date of production

2002-11-02

Date

2002

Level

Item

Primary Type

Moving image

Language

English, French

Duration

49 min.

Content

Form/Genre

Raw material

Contents Summary

This footage is of interviews with two Mauritanian refugees presently living in New York. One woman describes the events following the assassination of her husband who was one of hundreds of soldiers killed in Mauritania in 1990 during the government's attack on Mauritanians of black and Senegalese descent. There is then discussion of the political context leading up to this event as well as the work of the organization FLAM (Forces de Liberation Africaine de Mauritanie). FLAM is working to resist the government's discriminatory and oppressive treatment of Mauritanian minorities.

Context

Associated Names

WITNESS (Copyright holder)

IHRDA (Copyright holder)