Tunisian president warns of country being ‘overrun by blacks’

Jul 15, 2023 10:00 am By Hugh Fitzgerald

Though officially slavery is outlawed everywhere, in Africa hundreds of thousands of blacks are still enslaved by Arab masters. In Mali, there are up to 800,000, in Niger there are 45,000, and in Mauritania, which in 1981 became the last country to abolish slavery, there are over 100,000. No one raises the matter at the UN General Assembly, no Special Rapporteur has been appointed to study the “situation of black African slaves in Muslim lands.”

In Tunisia, black Africans — both those who have arrived in order to then try to make it to Europe by boat, and those whose families have been in Tunisia for generations (15% of Tunisians are black) – find themselves the object of racist attacks by individual Tunisian Arabs and by the Tunisian government. The Tunisian President has deplored the presence of so many black Africans who, he claims, are “overrunning” the country; sub-Saharan migrants have been arrested for the “crime of being black,” and now the police have been taking black Africans to desert areas, near the borders inhospitable with Algeria and Libya. There they are left without food and water, to fend for themselves. The local................How do the Tunisians escape condemnation? They have the political protection afforded them by the other 21 members of the Arab League, and by the 56 other members of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation. Neither at the UN Human Rights Council, nor at the General Assembly, have the matter of Arab enslavement of blacks, or of Arab anti-black racism, ever been raised, nor will they ever be..................To Read More...