40 people were arrested in Nouakchott at a demonstration by widows and relatives of victims of historic civil unrest. Police have arrested 42 people in Mauritania, rights groups and police said Sunday, after a protest demanding justice for victims of civil unrest between 1989 and 1991.Tensions between the West African state's black population and lighter-skinned Berber-Arab Moors plagued the 1984-2005 regime of Maaouiya Ould Taya.A surge in violence included an infamous episode on November 28, 1990, when 28 black Mauritanian soldiers were hanged without charge after being accused of plotting a coup. No one has ever been tried for the crimes owing to a 1993 amnesty law, although the families
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