Tamazgha has published a statement denouncing the murderous practices of the Malian state and its mercenary partners in the Russian group Wagner.
Faced with the unbearable situation that the civilian populations of Azawad have been facing for several months in the total indifference of the international community, Tamazgha calls on the international community to assume its responsibilities and to break its silence in the face of war crimes and real ethnic cleansing.
TUAREGS OF AZAWAD VICTIMS OF ABUSES
DECLARATION
For several months, the civilian populations of Azawad (Tuaregs, Moors and Fulani) have suffered daily extrajudicial executions, kidnappings, disappearances, torture, theft, looting of property, destruction… These cruel acts are committed by the Russian militia of the Wagner group with soldiers of the Malian Armed Forces (FAMa) as well as by jihadist groups.
Nomadic camps are bombed by the air force, face artillery or are targeted by strikes by Turkish-made drones made available to the Malian junta. FAMa soldiers and mercenaries of the Russian Wagner group kill indiscriminately, decapitating civilians and trapping their corpses. Even women and children are atrociously killed, often mutilated or decapitated.
It is worth recalling that since the beginning of the 1960s, in the aftermath of the birth of States created from scratch by colonial France, dividing the Tuareg territory between five borders, Mali has drowned the protests and the Tuareg uprising in blood by attacking civilians. Since then, the Tuaregs have never stopped acting to access their fundamental rights, sometimes by being forced to take up arms.
Tens of thousands of civilians have fled the atrocities to seek refuge in certain neighboring States. Which do not always provide them with the necessary welcome.
The Malian army and its partners from the Russian Wagner group are committing war crimes, crimes against humanity and even ethnic cleansing, given the targeting of their victims, without neighboring States or the international community reacting. A silence and an almost general indifference that must end.
The NGO Tamazgha, outraged by the dramatic situation experienced by the people of Azawad, strongly condemns the perpetrators of the atrocities, deplores the silence of neighboring states and the international community as well as the indifference of public opinion. It calls on human rights organizations to address this unbearable situation and to act to put an end to this criminal and murderous plan orchestrated by the Malian junta and its partners in the Russian group Wagner.
The world can no longer remain indifferent and silent in the face of crimes committed against unarmed civilians. We therefore appeal to independent international jurisdictions, in particular to the United Nations, to act to stop these crimes and prosecute their perpetrators who must not go unpunished.
We wish to assure our fellow Tuaregs of our full solidarity. We call for international solidarity with the people of Azawad who are subjected to horrible cruelty. We call on the Amazighs to mobilize where they are and by the means at their disposal so as not to abandon the populations of Azawad who are facing the murderous practices of the Malian army, Wagner’s Russian mercenaries and the jihadists. Azawad, an integral part of the Amazigh Country, deserves our support and our mobilization.
Tamazgha wishes to assure its support and solidarity to the Tuaregs of Azawad who are fighting to defend their territory and populations, for their sovereignty and their dignity. This fight is that of the liberation of Tenere from these criminal States whose genocidal plan envisages the eradication of the Tuaregs.
It is understood that Tamazgha stands alongside the defenders of Freedom and Timmujgha, far from any obscurantist project out of step with the values that we defend. In particular, those of the liberation of Tamazgha from macabre ideologies that have no other objective than the eradication of Amazighness by physical elimination or forced assimilation of the Amazighs.
Tamazgha,
Paris, August 15, 2024.
15-08-24
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