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Alassane Diago, the 1989 massacres, Mauritania and Senegal
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Alassane Diago, Senegalese director of the documentary "The river is not a border". © Siegfried Forster / RFI
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With his documentary Le fleuve n'est pas une frontière, presented at the Cinéma du réel festival, director Alassane Diago breaks the silence around the massacres and deportations that took place in 1989 between Mauritania and Senegal. Under a palaver tree, he brings together survivors and protagonists to "fabricate a memory" of the persistent injustice of this escalation of racist violence.
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