Exposing what he called 'the evils of his country',
anti-slavery activist and candidate for the Mauritanian presidential
election, Biram Ould Ould Dah Abeid, said he possessed the solutions to
the myriad of problems if elected president.
Dah Abeid, the leader of the Initiative of the Resurgence of the
Abolitionist Movement (IRA), said Mauritania was a country of coups by
army generals, the most recent perpetrated against the first
democratically-elected president in the country’s history. He
said Mauritania was a 'land of slavery, racism, rights violations,
manipulation of justice, generalization and normalization of corruption
and the collapse of public education'. He said, if elected
president, he would launch a programme to establish the rule of law,
revive the economy, ensure a more equitable distribution of national
wealth, promote freedom, put an end to oppression, provide relief to
victims of oppression, combat injustice and take into account the
aspirations of all segments of the Mauritanian society in his
administration.
The anti-slavery activist called the incumbent
president, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, as 'the symbol of exclusion and
forfeiture of civil rights' of a section of the Mauritanian society. He alleged that the incumbent president manages the country like a small family business. President
Aziz, also running in the polls, came to power 6 August, 2008,
following a coup. He was elected President 18 July 2009. Mauritania's
presidential election, slated for 21 June, is boycotted by the
opposition parties, National Forum for Democracy and Unity (FNDU0 and
the Progressive People's Alliance (PPA). Winner of the United
Nations Human Rights Prize in 2013, Biram Ould Ould Dah Abeid believes
that both the ruling party and the FNDU support 'slavery and
inequality'.
Source: Africa News & Information
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