OULD SIDI Posted 2008-10-06

The members of the military junta that illegally took power need to be removed and then tried before a court without exception. The military has been in power in Mauritania since 1978; our democratic transition was only a giant deception in reality. After having been the right arm of the dictator Ould Taya, Ely Ould Mohamed Vall wanted to save what he was able to pilfer from a half a century’s worth of other soldiers and security agents. By organising this travesty of a democratic transition, Ely hope to quickly return to the command of this wretched country as soon as the coffers were replenished by international aid, which he knew was going to happen after the presidential election. In the meantime, he gave true power to his cousin, Ould Abdelaziz. Ould Abdellahi was only a shell of a president in their eyes. Ely and his cousin, Mohamed, are nothing more than bandits. While the population is dying of hunger and the country lacks everything, the rotten military have some nicely primed accounts thanks to the general pilfering they initiated and organised since 1978. Indeed, Ould Sheikh Abdellahi committed some mistakes, but dismissing these bandits was not one of them. And, to this regard, his mistake was not having dismissed all of the soldiers who were already implicated in the military coup d’état. –From France, Dr Ould Sidi