O CARRASCO DE POLÍCIAS PORTUGUESES, E SENEGALÊS, O MAMADOU BA DO BLOCO DE ESQUERDA, NÃO PRECISAVA DE NOS VIR COLONIZAR PORQUE TINHA A MAURITÂNIA LOGO AO LADO DA SUA CASINHA...

The African nation living under the shadow of slavery
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Barkam Tusakim in Mauritania
Barkam Tusakim's daughter was taken from her, just as she was taken from her enslaved mother when she was just five years old CREDIT: PAUL NUKI

Joe Wallen
14 OCTOBER 2018 • 7:15PM
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“I have been hit, tortured, humiliated – I’m always the first to wake up and the last to go to sleep,” explains Habi Mutraba, breaking into tears.

Miss Mutraba is from the West African state of Mauritania, and, like an estimated 600,000 of her fellow citizens, was enslaved from birth.

Her mother was impregnated by her “master” and when Habi was born she was given to a member of his extended family.

Like most other Mauritanian slaves, Habi would tend to her master’s livestock or work in the household, fetching water and preparing food.

She says she was regularly raped by the head of her household after he threatened her with a knife and later on became pregnant by his son following another rape.

“None of us ever went to school,” she said in an interview with the Telegraph, “none of us had identity or civil papers.

“I received no support, no one could help me. I was totally at the mercy of my masters.”

Video still of police beating protesters in Mauritania
Video still of police beating protesters in Mauritania CREDIT: TELEGRAPH
Habi’s experiences are not unique. Officially, Mauritania made human slavery illegal in 1981 – the last country in the world to do so.

However, it did not introduce criminal laws enforcing the ruling until 2007 and the anti-slavery NGO SOS-Esclaves estimates the number of those enslaved in the country is still as high as 600,000 or 18 per cent of the nation’s population - more than any other country in the world.

The culture of slavery in Mauritania dates back hundreds of years and is passed along family lines, with slaves like Miss Mutraba born into servitude.

E DEPOIS TEMOS RESMAS DE INTERNACIONALISTAS E IDIOTAS ÚTEIS PRONTOS A FAZER AJOELHAR O ZÉ POVINHO, A VERGASTÁ-LO E FAZER DAR-LHE A OUTRA FACE AGORA PARA CONSENTIR SER COLONIZADO POR AFRICANOS QUE OS LIMPARAM DE ÁFRICA E SEM BENS.E NENHUM SOCIÓLOGO IRÁ NUNCA FAZER O LEVANTAMENTO DE QUANTO ISSO CUSTA EM IMPOSTOS AO ZÉ POVINHO BRANCO...COM TANTO PLANETA QUE SALVAM!