WE ARE HERE TO TELL THE WORLD WHAT IS HAPPENING IN AZAWAD
AZAWAD …. Names are not just words… but history and identity and peoples.
Azawad is not just a region, it is a symbol of struggle, resistance and dignity for a people seeking recognition and self-determination.
The Malian authorities has since the 60s been implementing an ethnic cleansing replacement policy aimed to erase the Tuaregs, Arabs (moors) Peuhls and some others from Azawad. The so called “rebellions” are neither rebellions nor terrorism, they are the resistance of a people forced to fight an existenstial war.
Do they not have the right to live on their ancestral land like any other people?
The Azawad Army does not wage expansionist wars or target innocents.
Rather, they defend their land and people against an occupying army that has committed documented massacres, and against hired foreign militias that practice genocide and displacement under official cover.
The Touaregs wherever they are must know that AES is an alliance designed to exterminate them.
Azawad is at war, not out of a desire for conflict, but out of a refusal to disappear. Every bullet fired is a response to years of oppression. Our revolution is not a cry for vengeance; it is a call for dignity. We do not seek domination, only justice. The forgotten voice of Azawad needs to be heard. People of Azawad deserve justice and dignity.
They fight neither for money nor for glory, they fight for the right to exist on the land where they and their generations before them since millennia were born, and left the tifinagh on the rocks as proof of their existence.
The solution to all the problems is simple… independence of Azawad. it`s long due. People come and go…but the Azawad cause stays. The fight for freedom continues until Azawad is free.
THIS WEBPAGE IS A PEACEFUL SUPPORT TO THE CAUSE OF THE PEOPLE OF AZAWAD.
“The Tuareg people have long been marginalized, isolated, crushed, trampled and one day they said enough is enough. They rebelled to say that they exist and that they must have the same rights as other peoples” Mano Dayak, Interview, 1994
When you realize the full scale of the oppression by Mali on Azawad. It`s like you almost have to sit down and take a deep breath… It`s like a full book of genocide tactics.
“My friends across Africa, I have a question,
A question that keeps haunting me… Is revolution like certain trees whose branches will only grow if they are watered?”
Tinariwen
A revolution is not fought with weapons alone… there are fighters of diplomacy, the media, musical, authors, poets of resistance, teachers, all activists, because the fronts have become diverse.
Imouhagh International for Justice and Transparency is a human rights organization that has been documenting the situation of Tuareg communities in Sahel countries, particularly in Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso, for several years.
BY AZAWAD SUPPORT GROUP, AZAWAD FREEDOM VOICE, TOUMAST INFO & OTHER CONTRIBUTORS
Here we share news about what is happening in Azawad, from 2022 and onwards.
However, it must be remembered that this struggle for freedom has been going on since the 1960s! The people of Azawad have suffered a lot!
We display the headlines of eight news articles on this frontpage, but there is a lot more in the drop-down menus of “Previous posts” – where you can search for months or cathegories.
DOUBLE STANDARDS: WHY IS THE UNITED NATIONS TURNING A BLIND EYE TO THE MASSACRES OF CIVILIANS IN AZAWAD?
Many observers are asking the same question:
Why is the United Nations turning a blind eye to the massacres and bombings against civilians and miners in Azawad, done by the very same criminal junta and the Afrika Korps (Wagner) mercenaries – that they so quickly issued a statement claiming that an investigation is called for regarding the killing of Malian soldiers – who, ordered by this same junta kill innocent civilians daily on Azawad territory ?
At the same time, they ignored the documented massacres committed against civilians (Arabs (Moors), Tuaregs, Fulani, and others) in northern Mali, Azawad, for many years, despite repeated calls for an independent investigation into these massacres.
There are tons of reports, witnessing and solid media evidence, which also are held by some of these organizations. And still nothing happens, not until Malian soldiers (who massacre civilians daily), are killed.
Isn`t this selectivity the highest form of hypocrisy?
Of course, if it turns out that there was a war crime done, it should be investigated, absolutely. That is not the issue here.
But shouldn´t also massacres and atrocities on civilians including small babies which has been going on for so many years, also be equally reacted on and investigated?
It is this double standard that is the issue. And which raises questions among observers regarding the credibility of the United Nations, Amnesty and others.
How shall people in the world be able to trust the “United Nations” ? or other humanitarian organizations?
Yes, questions are asked – what is their mission really? why are they selective with who can have human rights, while at the same time their very statutes says everyone has the right to human rights?
Doesn`t all human beings have the same right to live, the same value? why do they see the crime of only one side but not the other?
Obviously hypocrisy rules.
Azawad Support Group.
HUMANITY HAS BEEN REDUCED TO ANIMALS
The text on the picture translated: The populations of Azawad are driven from their homeland every day by Russian and Malian airstrikes. History will not forget those who remain silent in the face of this tragedy.
HUMANITY HAS BEEN REDUCED TO ANIMALS
The world is meticulously watching the people of Azawad being decimated alive. Faced with horrific massacres, ethnic cleansing, relentless aerial bombardments, and the demographic replacement of Azawad’s civilian population by others from elsewhere—even from very far away—it has become clear that the rights of indigenous peoples remain a dead letter. It has become clear that international law is nothing but a pretty lie, acting only out of self-interest.
When civilians are massacred in full view of everyone by known actors; when civilians are burned alive; When they amuse themselves by tearing out the tongues of living people and beating them to death; when they amuse themselves by dismembering human bodies and drawing whatever they want with their organs.… in the face of all this, international law does nothing!
For 64 years, neither international law nor the international community has ever acted in Azawad, not even with a simple declaration. Isn’t this complicity?
It seems that the international community and the African Union are not there to restore JUSTICE and impose PEACE, but only to enrich themselves.
Tohima Ag Liblina
WHEREVER THEY ARE, TUAREG PEOPLE FACE PERSECUTION
Civilian Azawadian refugees at the Algerian border, fleeing the persecutions by the Russian Afrika Korps mercenaries and the Malian junta.
Freedom of expression is a right guaranteed by Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948.
“Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.”
So allow me to speak frankly and without any filter today.
Wherever they are, the Tuareg people face persecution: in Niger, in Libya, where they are even denied citizenship, in Algeria, and even more tragically in Mali, where their legitimate aspiration for independence is growing.
In Algeria, despite a professed sense of pride, it is our brothers who are being slaughtered in these gold mines located on the very land of their ancestors. It is they who are being murdered, or imprisoned at best, for the sole crime of having tried to deliver food and essential supplies to their grieving families across the border, families bereaved by the daily realities of Mali and now by the junta.
Today, the Tinzawatène wall erects an artificial barrier at the very heart of homes: it fractures families, tears mothers apart, isolates a wife from her husband, a mother from her son.
Yet, this human tragedy has never elicited the slightest compassion from Algerian diplomacy. Algeria has sided with the Malian government, openly displaying its desire to obstruct the emancipation of Azawad, pushing cynicism to the point of denying displaced persons even basic refugee status.
Certainly, it is the only nation to refuse, before the Security Council, to label its people as terrorists, but that is not enough.
What a peculiar paradox! Algeria presents itself as the defender of Western Sahara, lavishes support on the Malian and Nigerien juntas, and deploys aid across the continent, all while completely neglecting the people of Azawad. Even more painful, this complacency has never provoked outrage from our brothers in Algeria. The government in Algiers brutally represses any demonstration by Azawadians on its soil, even as it publicly encourages and funds rallies in support of the Palestinian people or the Sahrawi cause.
Some will argue that Palestine is a holy land. Certainly! But access to life is a universal and inalienable right that takes precedence over everything else, regardless of the faith or affiliation of those who suffer.
I will also address those who will tell me that we consume Algerian products.
If we consume Algerian products, it is not a privilege granted to us: we pay dearly for it, with our blood and, all too often, with our lives.
To the youth of Azawad: it is now up to them to grasp the immensity of the responsibility that rests upon them. They must demand, starting today, the unconditional respect due to our people and our mothers.
As for the leaders and the Tuareg community of Algeria, it is up to them to demand that their state grant them the very rights it claims to defend for other nations!
I will stop here for this evening.
Rhissa Ag
Residents on Tin Zaouatine’s Algerian border strip witnessed on the night of July 30, from 2 to 3 a.m, the arrival of three (03) suicide drones belonging to the Malian army and Wagner mercenaries targeting border areas to Algeria in the Azawad region. The Azawad Liberation Front [FLA] repelled them with anti-aircraft defenses until their downing.
The print-screen is from a video that was filmed from Algerian Tin Zaouatine.
And few days ago in the morning, the same type of “Shahed” suicide drones belonging to the Malian military and the Russian African Corps targeted and destroyed a medical clinic and a commercial area in the two border towns of Talhandak and Tinzaouaten with Algeria. The airstrikes resulted in loss of civilian lives and a destroyed medical clinic.
The Association for the Defense of Human Rights in Azawad, the Kal Akal Association is a member organization of civil society whose headquarters are located in the Kidal region.
Why is the United Nations turning a blind eye to the massacres and bombings against civilians and miners in Azawad? Doesn`t all human beings have the same right to live, the same value? why do they see the crime of only one side but not the other?
The historic Battle of Tinzawaten – took place two years ago, to the day. A battle that went into history with the defeat on Wagner’s Russian mercenaries. it was their biggest defeat ever on African soil. This victory remains a symbol of courage, sacrifice, and determination in the struggle for Azawad.
THE UN`s SILENCE ON THE AZAWAD TRAGEDY: WHEN HUMANITY IGNORES VICTIMES AND MOBILIZES FOR WEAPONS The worst trial an overlook people can face is not merely geographical cruelty or scarce resources, but “methodical international silence” that silently legitimizes injustice. When… Read more: THE UN`s SILENCE ON THE AZAWAD TRAGEDY
Once again another manifestation took place in the middle of the Republic Square in the French city of Rennes to protest against the massacres committed by the Malian army and the Afrika Korps on the Arabs (moors) Tuaregs and Fulanis, and the cooperation of the United Nations with the criminal, abandoning the principle of protection.
No one is asking the UN to turn a blind eye to Malian soldiers executed after surrendering, if that is indeed what happened. The question is one of consistency. If this renewed interest in human rights in the Sahel now extends, with the same rigor and speed, to all violations, whether committed by armed groups, the Malian army, or its Russian backers, then this is to be welcomed, and the UN should demonstrate this by applying the same pressure to the ongoing investigations into Moura and the dozens of other documented atrocities against unarmed civilians.
For decades, Azawad and its inhabitants have faced all sorts of atrocities and bombings targeting innocent civilians: women, babies, children, the elderly, Fulani, Arabs (Maures), and Tuaregs. Despite all this, there has been no outrage or condemnation, not even once, from Malian civil society, religious scholars, politicians, or intellectuals, whether pro-junta or staunch opponents in exile.
A Message to Azawad Officials and Activists Defending the Azawad Cause: By: تيم تار ان مرهانين The disinformation campaigns have reached a point where silence is no longer an option. Therefore, the responsibility does not fall solely on political leaders,… Read more: A MESSAGE TO AZAWAD OFFICIALS AND ACTIVISTS DEFENDING THE AZAWAD CAUSE
EVERYTHING IS TARGETED IN AZAWAD, CIVILIANS, ANIMALS, EVEN NATURE, THE SITUATION IS ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE.
France is responsable for the Azawad situation. They should never have colonized and then attached Azawad to Mali. Two different countries. In conflict since then, especially due to the neglect and oppression by Mali.
The Azawadians did never agree to be attached to Mali, a country they had nothing in common with, and Mali did from the very beginning neglect and oppress Azawad – followed by the start of a genocide, but since they were never able to kill off the Azawadian people they called for help from external forces. Like Wagner, now Africa Corps and who, like the authorities of Mali, admittedly have no interest in human rights. And they use Turkish drones killing entire families. Only a fraction of all the suffering is brought to the attention of the media.
The people of Azawad have been forced to fight for decades, not by choice, but by necessity – to defend their land and identity, to defend their dignity. To survive – it`s an existential struggle, not just with weapons, but also culturally, and there is a cultural and mental and environmental genocide going on as well as an ethnic genocide.
BREAK THE SILENCE ON AZAWAD
The Azawadians did never ask for or agree to be attached to Mali! but they were force-attached.
And THIS is the ROOT of the PROBLEM!
Since independence, there has been no peace because it was not one country, but two – with distinct identities, one oppressing the other. Recognize this and peace will follow. #Azawad
In #Azawad there are no basic necessities like running water, schools, hospitals or roads due to state neglect. And when people ask for their rights they are labeled as terrorists by the junta and their supporters.. That is a common tactic by oppressive regimes and has also happened in other parts of the world when people are fighting for freedom against oppression, they label them terrorists.
When injustice is the law rebellion is a duty.
SELF-INTEREST IS THE ENEMY OF LIBERATION!
Betrayal is not only in actions, but in silence too!
IN AZAWAD !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LET US NOT CLOSE OUR EYES LET US KNOW: THEY ARE MASSACRING THE INNOCENTS LET US REACT AGAINST THE BARBARIANS!
Can you, members of the international community, imagine what it must be like to live under these attacks and oppression from Fama and Africa Corps (ex Wagner)? For example, living in the desert, where you hear the noise from far away in the silence, and suddenly… you hear the noise of engines in the middle of the night? Someone is approaching and you know it is death.
So what can we do?
We can always do something, if there´s a will, there´s a way like Bob Marley used to say. For example, the least we can do is react. We can stop being silent! we can at least try to let the world know what is happening in Azawad. Silence kills.
We can also help with donations when Azawad Solidarity and local organizations has campaigns. Any donations helps, no matter how small. They recently had a very successful campaign and they posted a lot of pictures and information on the social media as well as made a video of the deliverance of medecines to refugees in Tinzawatine, you can read about it here.
A Z A W A D
Fama and Africa Corps (ex Wagner), they come to a village… and then they leave that village with a scar that takes generations to heal. And justice is still absent, but silence is not!!
Sunset on October 7 from the strip separating Tinzawatine in Algeria and Azawad. Photo: Lahcen Ag Touhami.
“BUT NOTHING AND NO ONE CAN DEFEAT THOSE WHO DEFEND A JUST CAUSE” Mano Dayak
Where are the human rights organizations regarding the suffering of the Azawadian people? Are you just decorations or are these people not human beings to you? #A-Voice-in-Azawad …
The unheard of atrocities against the civilians of Azawad continue in all their barbaric brutality by the Malian army and the terrorist Wagner militia, slaughtering Azawadian civilians in the name of fighting “terrorism” in their attempt to exterminate every living being in Azawad, using the burnt earth policy, and cheering themselves on in a barbaric act of genocide that continues while the world remains silent. it`s always the children who are the most vulnerable victims.
The nomadic population, forgotten by the world. It is confronted with the repression of terrorists on the one hand and regular and mercenary armies on the other, who do not differentiate between a terrorist and an innocent and targeting children is part of their agenda. In the picture is an injured child by the drone attack in Tinzawaten 2024 killing several children.
In the 70s, the Malian government took advantage of the drought to starve the inhabitants of Azawad, it is proven. Today, international humanitarian organizations were prohibited by the Malian authorities to help in the epidemic of malaria and dysentery and they are strongly suspected of adding chemicals in the drones causing an unknown disease as well as causing the animals to get deformed offspring. It is the same genocide that has been repeated since the 60s. Only the methods have become more sophisticated.
The daily life of the people of Azawad has become a nightmare, marked by violence and terror. The repeated incursions of the Africa Corps (ex Wagner) forces and the FAMA have plunged entire communities into indescribable suffering.
Entire villages are reduced to ashes, their homes burned, their property plundered without mercy. The meager pastures, source of life for the herders, are also ravaged by the flames, destroying all hope of subsistence.
Forced into exile, men, women and children find themselves surviving under modest sunshades, without shelter or resources, exposed to extreme precariousness. This blind violence destroys not only lives, but also entire generations, threatening the future of Azawad and the dignity of its inhabitants.
Please, if you are willing and able, support the suffering people and the fight for a free Azawad. The blood of the Azawadians is wasted while their just cause remain forgotten! What a shame! A sad reality! Their lives are worth as much as those of others, but they are considered useless in the eyes of the exploiters! Who can do anything about this situation?
AZAWAD IS BLEEDING…. THEY NEED OUR HELP AND SUPPORT!
You don’t compare the one who fights for money to the one who fights for his dignity. One sells his soul, the other defends his freedom.
IT IS UNACCEPTABLE FOR THE AFRICA CORPS (ex WAGNER) TO HELP THE ILLEGAL PUTSCHISTS CARRY OUT ETHNIC CLEANSING IN THE SAHEL REGION IN DISREGARD OF INTERNATIONAL LAW.
History will witness your silence 🤐 !!!! @ToumastInfo
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