Following the Moroccan process of political reconciliation, launched at the end of the 1990s, more and more victims testify to the violence they experienced during the Years of lead. Likewise, the Equity and Reconciliation Commission (IER) collected a large number of testimonies, notably during the Public Hearings it organized in several regions of the Kingdom. By invoking the testimony of certain women victims and survivors, this article aims, on the one hand, to shed light on several gray areas of this violent past – notably the violent practices of the State and its apparatuses, the ordeals these women have endured and their resilience – and to elucidate, on the other hand, the importance of these testimonies as an archival source for studying and writing the history of political violence in Morocco. In this perspective, against any gendered conception which reduces these minorized feminine voices to a domestic orality or to a hypermnesia without any politico-historical significance, their testimonies are considered as “minor archive” capable of deterritorializing the very notions of archive and of history, emancipating them from both scientific and political establishment.
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