Our fathers were not just names or photos. They were men of honor—fathers, sons, husbands, and brothers—stolen from us by the Mauritanian government solely because of the color of their skin and their ethnicity.

For over 34 years, their bodies have remained in mass graves in Inal, Jereida, Sori-Male, Azalat, Oualata, and beyond. Their lives were cut short, and their stories silenced, while their killers walk free under the protection of Amnesty Law 93.23, which has shielded these criminals from accountability for decades.

We demand answers:

• If the government disagrees with these accusations, where is the proof? Why don’t they show evidence of what our fathers were accused of?
• Why were they detained incommunicado? What crime justifies the brutal torture, the beatings, the starvation, and the executions?
• Why were 28 men hanged in Inal on November 28, 1990, in the name of celebrating Mauritania’s Independence Day?
• Where is the law? Where is the justice? Why has this racist violence been excused and allowed to persist for so long?
• Why is the government still protecting those responsible for these heinous crimes with an unjust amnesty law?

We, the children of these victims, have lived as orphans for decades, carrying the unbearable weight of their absence and the silence of the state. Where are our fathers? When will we get justice?

Their blood cries out from the mass graves. Their lives mattered. Their stories mattered. We will not rest until the truth is uncovered, the criminals face justice, and the world remembers the atrocities Mauritania has tried to erase. No more impunity. No more silence. Justice must prevail.