Othello

Mauritania's Democratic Transition: A Regional Model for Political Reform?

“…The military council's initial statement noted that 'the armed forces have unanimously decided to put an end to the totalitarian practices of the deposed regime under which our people have suffered'. 6 There were subsequent reports of enthusiastic crowds of Mauritanians who took to the streets of the capital, Nouakchott, celebrating the former regime's removal. The CMJD announced that it intended to hold power for no more than two years, and that this interim period would be dedicated to organising free and fair elections in which council members would not stand as candidates.…”

“…The US expressed early reservations of the CMJD's takeover, noting that it objected to any attempt to change governments through violence. 9 Although Washington was in contact with the coup's leaders, it did not rush to officially recognise the new government. It did, however, quickly discard its demand to restore President Taya, perhaps after realising that Taya had become a spent political force, whose absence had little affect on most Mauritanians.…”

Overkill

“…Others claim that any eroticization of domination supports the status quo. orchestrated by Europeans and European-Americans against Native Americans (Smith 2005). Paula Gunn Allen (1986: 3) points out that the 'physical and culture genocide of American Indian tribes is and was mostly about patriarchal fear of gynocracy (egalitarian and womancentered cultures), which was misnamed as "savagery" '.…”