Based on various field investigations, this article traces the origins of the community reparation program in Morocco, a socio-economic and cultural development program supporting regions in which economic and social marginalization are perceived as linked to “gross violations of human rights” from the 1960s to the 1990s. Drawing on the sociology of public problems, the article considers the emergence and territorial development of “transitional justice” measures. Hence, we analyze the problematization of the territorialized effects of repression by small associative actors. They qualify situations and question the presence of secret detention centers and the resulting social and economic status of their localities. They call for public responses rooted in the particular territory of South-East Morocco. Then, we show that these associative actors propose a new de-singularization of repression : violence has no longer marked individuals or militant groups, but territories. This questioning resonates with international issues (“transitional justice” seized by development) and elements of the trajectories of the commissioners of the Equity and Reconciliation Commission, the Moroccan truth commission, leading to the development of public action nationwide.