The Manifesto of the Oppressed Black Mauritanian (French: Le Manifeste du Négro-Mauritanien Opprimé) was published in April 1986, by the African Liberation Forces of Mauritania (ex-FLAM) a paramilitary group which promoted the rights of the oppressed Black African alleged "majority" by Arabo-Berber alleged "minority" in Mauritania.
It encouraged the black people of Mauritania to overthrow the military junta installed by Colonel Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidallah and establish an egalitarian regime.
[3] In September 1986, the Arab military regime of Mauritania arrested thirty-six Mauritanians of Black African origin for the publication and the distribution of the forbidden manifesto.
[2] As a consequence the Arab military junta introduced and established the Islamic law, and increased the discrimination against the Black African community.
[5] In October 1987, fifty-one Black African officers were arrested on charges of insurrection and plotting a coup, three of which were executed after a military trial.