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No democracy while refugees are still abroad and no justice unless their rights are fully reinstated - 19/04/2006

Our country opened, seventeen years ago, the darkest pages of its history. At that time, public authority was used to organize massive and bloody deportations within the ethnic-African populations. At the same time, a racist and murderous cleansing took place within the military institution. The magnitude of these facts is such that their minimization or denial could compromise the existence of our country and the unity of our people.

The CMJD who committed itself to laying down the foundation of true Democracy and Justice in the country, must know that Democracy is meaningless unless it involves all the citizens, and that Justice will last only if they all recover their rights in full. Bringing our wrongfully expelled refugees in Senegal and Mali, back with respect and dignity, is a condition for the success of the democratic project. The promised Justice would require them re-established in their rights.

The path of national reconciliation, starts from the organized return of deportees in dignity, through their rehabilitation in their public offices, through the recovering of their rights, and should be concluded by an official demand for forgiveness.

The CMJD would be well inspired to think along the above lines and to act upon them in order to recess the national harmony and to rebuild the bonds of fraternity among our people. To think or act otherwise, to deny proven history or to minimize our refugee's suffering, is a recipe for disaster, and would do nothing but worsen the situation and weaken the country.