History of Mayotte

The Chatouilleuses (English: 'Ticklers'), nicknamed the sorodas wa Maore (English:Soldiers of Mayotte) were a group of Mahoran women who used tickle torture on Comorian political leaders in the 1960s and 1970s, in order to reduce the influence of the other islands in the Comorian archipelago on Mayotte, and to keep Mayotte within the French Republic.