![]() It’s a classic plot, and the fact that it’s a true story, as trustworthy as memoirs can be these days, makes it all the more compelling. Malika Oufkir’s story is that of the spoiled rich girl brought low by injustice and subsequently redeemed through suffering and finally freed to appreciate a new life and love. Manette, were impaired in body, mind and soul when they were finally freed from the prisons of King Hassan II. The Oufkir family were so badly treated and so cut off from the world for so very long that they, like the fictional Dr. ![]() This nonfiction account of a family kept in cruel and unusual confinement in the desert of Morocco reminded me of nothing so much as Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities. Malika Oufkir was 17 years old her brother Abdellatif was only 3.” ![]() A cousin, Achoura, and a close family friend, Halima, joined them. ![]() In retaliation for the coup, his entire family was imprisoned: Oufkir’s wife, Fatima, and his children Malika, Raouf, Soukaina, Maria, Myriam, and Abdellatif. Oufkir was reported to have committed suicide, but was found with five bullet wounds. Recommended by Laura at Musings: “In 1972, Moroccan defense minister General Mohamed Oufkir staged a failed coup d’etat against King Hassan II. ![]() Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail by Malika Oufkir and Michele Fitoussi. ![]()
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