Benutzer:Shi Annan/Alliance pour une Mauritanie démocratique
Die Alliance pour une Mauritanie démocratique' (AMD, dt.: „Allianz für ein demokratisches Mauretanien“, en.: Alliance for a Democratic Mauritania) war eine geheime Oppositionsbewegung in Mauretanien.
Die AMD bildete sich im Mai 1980 um den ehemaligen President Moktar Ould Daddah, after he had gone into exile in Paris, France, following the Staatsstreich in Mauretanien 1978 that overthrew him; and former military leader Colonel Mustafa Ould Salek.
It demanded a multi-party democracy in Mauritania, although the regime countered that Ould Daddah had in fact presided over a one-party state, and Ould Salek over a junta. The movement enjoyed support from Morocco and pro-Moroccan states in the Gulf region, and at the very least, it was allowed to organize in France. The formation of the AMD took place in the context of the Western Sahara war,[1][2] which Ould Daddah (and to a lesser extent Ould Salek)[2] had fought in alliance with Morocco, but from which the present leader, Colonel Mohamed Khouna Ould Heidallah, had withdrawn.[1][2][2]
On March 18, 1981, the AMD organized a coup d'état of its own against Heidallah's CMSN junta, but the action failed. Some of the responsible in Mauritania were arrested, and subsequently executed.[3][4][2]
This prompted Heidallah to seek closer relations with the Western Saharan Polisario Front, and with its backer and Morocco's main rival in the region, Algeria.[5][6][2]
Einzelnachweise
[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]- ↑ Zekeria Ould Ahmed Salem, "Mauritania: A Saharan Frontier State", p. 499; from The Journal of North African Studies, Vol. 10, No. 3-4 (Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, Sept-Dec 2005)
- ↑ a b c d e Mauritania : a country study. In: Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Abgerufen am 13. September 2022.
- ↑ Denis Starkey: Mauritania - A Country of Persecution and Slavery. In: The White Fathers UK. Archiviert vom am 27. April 2007; abgerufen am 13. September 2022.
- ↑ Mauritania Sentences 3 in Plot In: The New York Times, 19. April 1981. Abgerufen am 13. September 2022 (amerikanisches Englisch).
- ↑ Mauritania - Relations with Other States of the Maghrib. In: www.country-data.com. Abgerufen am 13. September 2022.
- ↑ Mauritania - Relations with Other States of the Maghrib. In: Country Studies. Abgerufen am 13. September 2022.
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