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Slavery's last stronghold
Moulkheir Mint Yarba returned from a day of tending her masters goats out on the Sahara Desert to find something unimaginable: Her baby girl, barely old enough to crawl, had been left outdoors to die.
The usually stoic mother whose jet-black eyes and cardboard hands carry decades of sadness wept when she saw her childs lifeless face, eyes open and covered in ants, resting in the orange sands of the Mauritanian desert. The master who raped Moulkheir to produce the child wanted to punish his slave. He told her she would work faster without the child on her back.
Trying to pull herself together, Moulkheir asked if she could take a break to give her daughter a proper burial. Her masters reply: Get back to work.
http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2012/03/world/mauritania.slaverys.last.stronghold/index.html?hpt=wo_c1
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Slavery's last stronghold (Original Post)
UrbScotty
Mar 2012
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Morning Dew
(6,539 posts)1. Thank you for posting this.
What an incredibly sad story with hints of hope.
Good read? Great read.
dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)2. Heart breaking
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Stuart G
(38,414 posts)3. K and R...nt
ellisonz
(27,711 posts)4. K & R
There is war in the North of neighboring Mali between the Tuaregs and the Mali government, let's hope it doesn't spillover.