I agree with you reading this very touching testimony of a son of Colonel Mohamed Ould Abdel Kader Kader said (Allah yarehmou). Temoignange this is a reaction to my blog entitled: March 16
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I begins by the testimony of the father of the nation's fire Mokhtar Ould Daddah, in his book " Mauritania against all odds" on page 639:
"Our reunification is linked in our minds to the great sacrifices made by the Mauritanian people , from December 1975.
I am here, and before discussing this crucial period and painful, a national tribute to those earned and how many of our officers and particularly with gloriously represented our army. He is the Commander Soueidatt Ould Weddad, paratrooper officer, killed in action January 20, 1976 with his men, defending our position Ain Ben Tili, and Colonel Mohamed Ould Abdel Kader, Kader said the air force commander during the war and shot March 26, 1981 with his fellow soldiers, Colonel Ahmed Salem Ould Sidi, Lieutenants Issa Niang said Salah and Mohamed Doudou Seck, for trying to restore legitimacy. "
I have always asked myself why people like most of what are, journalists, historians and writers limit the action of 16 March 1981 to its military aspect, so that any military action often comes in part of a political vision. Therefore, It would be more appropriate to consider what could have induced a senior addition as Colonel Kader, enjoying all respects as a member of the two highest authorities of the country namely the Government to resign and CMSN and go into exile, leaving behind his family, friends and possessions?
I answer with a passage in the letter of resignation of Colonel Kader in June 1979:
" What I can add at this stage, Mr Speaker, is that on May 12, I submitted my resignation for reasons of CMSN I do not see fit to reveal.
In this regard, allow me to avail myself of your testimony and that of fellow you connaissez.Aujourd 'Today, I just require that evidence, convinced that it I will not fail to prove that it is me who is again submitted my resignation from the Committee and the government for personal reasons.
these reasons, you and all the members guess, are summarized in that a man whose the only ideal has always been to serve his country at great sacrifice, accept it difficult to endorse a system that obviously works for destruction.La its charter and bylaws of CMSN allow each member to withdraw after a certain procedure that I respected, but you take responsibility for bafouer.Je understand that the Standing Committee can not deliver to the view all these truths. I also understand that if you want to kill his dog, is accused of rage.
Anyway, I return to my country to the truth to prevail, because I trust the National Armed Forces and sense of justice of the Mauritanian people.
I am convinced that the officers deserve our great Army and our people's heroes are more likely than those who are selling out the spirit of the glorious legacy of our illustrious man, the late Ahmed o / Bousseif. I recognize myself unable to betray his memory. And if in this I committed a crime, I chose to suffer the consequences. "
As for the Sahara issue, my father was for peace, but real peace and honorable and not a capitulation and dismemberment of his country. Before the death of the late Colonel Bousseif, my father had helped develop a confidential document which indicates that peace in the Sahara could be global, accepted by all parties. This solution is now the sole in sight.
Fire Colonel Sheikh O. Beida, then president of the military court which pronounced the verdict of the death penalty in March 1981, told the family of the deceased that the award was decided at the highest level well before the end of the trial macabre. It also said that " Kader seen twenty years earlier than we .
Do you know that during the month of November 1980, Haidalla orchestrated a trial described by the international press as one of the most scandalous in the history of African justice. (Young Africa 03-12-1980)
Indeed, 21 November 1980, during the special military court convened in Rosso in total secrecy, and after a trial, without giving any form of assistance or defense, condemned in absentia to death late Colonel Mohamed Ould Abdel Kader, "forced labor in perpetuity "the former president Mokhtar Ould Daddah fire and other severe penalties were also imposed against a dozen soldiers. My father had not taken any military action.
To return to the military aspect of the March 16 1981, I am sharing some remarkable detail. First Colonel Kader refused any foreign involvement in military action. For him it was a matter between Mauritania and the Mauritanian. This course explains the modesty of the means deployed by the commando.
For example, there 's had no means of communication between members of the commando. The latter consisted of ten (10) elements with two Colonels . Here I would particularly like to confirm that neither my father nor his friends had killed a Mauritanian. All casualties were made by the brutal intervention of several military garrisons. On the other hand, I assure you that many other officers were involved in this action including the commanders of regions at the time.
There are also many civilians among other senior officials of the state that supported this intervention. We have written evidence, letters, telegrams, etc. ... The action of March 16, 1981 reflected simply the frustration of most of the Mauritanian people to make a change before the dictatorship of the mismanagement that reigned supreme. Unfortunately, the coup was the only way to make that change.
I do not know much about any facts that show the cruelty of the era Haidalla, because I am sure many others have suffered, but let me say this: The Shiites of Iraq despite their hatred and fury vis-à-vis fire Saddam finally agreed to surrender his corpse to his relatives. Imagine that the last wish of the late Colonel Ahmed Sidi Salem O, according to his lawyer, who still lives ( Master Yacoub Diallo), while he was on the firing squad, I quote the last sentence of Colonel:''I these people to give our bodies to our family after our performance so that we bury in accordance with our religion ''. The written order has received the Base Commander of "Jreida" place of execution, was to put the four executed directly, in a common grave. We learn later that the commander in question, on its own initiative, has quietly appealed to the Imam who has buried one by one, respecting all the rites of our religion. Fire Lt. Doudou Seck, who was seriously injured and was unable to attend the trial, was dragged from his hospital bed, despite the protests, to be led to the firing squad.
For those who argue that Haidalla, did not want to run but was outvoted within the CMSN, I recall that the group of defense lawyers presented him a request for presidential pardon he immediately refused. The same award has been anticipated to decline requests for pardon made by the international community. I leave you, therefore, to judge, you, the cruelty of this dictatorship, which now presents itself to you as a religious man, came to save the nation.
For the story, I remind you that Colonel Kader was the only Mauritanian army officer twice named to the Order of the nation for war. It is the only Mauritanian officer who practiced all disciplines military, it will successfully turn the Cavalry and Airborne Troops of them to the infantry and the latter to Aviation where he obtained all permits including piloting of supersonic aircraft. In short, what we wanted to kill was not Kader, but the bravery and sense of honor in the national armed forces.
Kader.
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