Quote from a post by @Mohamed Mouloud Ramadan
Official Spokesperson for the Azawad Liberation Front (FLA) :
Media is the weapon of the unarmed, and the shield of those seeking justice in a time of confused narratives.
You are the soldiers in the battle for awareness, the bearers of the banner of free speech, and the honest voice that does not break in the face of distortion or falsification.
Create media worthy of Azawad, enlightening minds, uniting ranks, and planting hope in hearts. Be messengers, not mere transmitters. Every publication, every report, every photo or video of you is a building block in building the future of this beloved land.
Said Ben Bella, Ag Balah, Mohamed Mouloud Ramadan
MEDIA FOR TRUTH AND FOR PROPAGANDA
Revolutionaries and their allies, use media to educate, tell the truth, inspire, combat and denounce false propaganda and lies aimed to distort, delay and hinder the cause of Azawad.
Propaganda is everywhere, and all the time, and we need to be aware of it. For example in a report it was written (in 2024) that the Wagner Group spend around 35 000 USD just on social media, to spread propaganda and to hinder and delay and report postings
ADF MAGAZINE – Africa Defense Forum (ADF) – Matter of 2024 on the Russian media manipulation, disinformation and propaganda machine that omitted or distorted information about the ongoing atrocities against ethnic minority civilians in the Sahel, and the motives behind these atrocities. The PDFs can be read in english, french and arab.
PDF ARCHIVE The ADF articles.
Here is just one example of attempts to distort the reality of the Azawad cause.
This example of propaganda – which in a video apparently said that France had promised a state called “Azawad” to the “terrorists from Libya” who “killed Gaddafi”, “hoping to divide Mali” …
– What nonsense! The truth: it was France that created Mali, and attached it (against the will of the Azawadian people) to Mali, its new state, as an extension of French colonialism. And which categorically rejected the existence of Azawad! as for the rest … only a donkey* would believe it.
And as for division… who wouldn’t want to be free from these genocidaires?
Resisting marginalization is not by weapons alone, but by thought, knowledge and patience.
We live in a rapidly changing world. He who does not pay attention will be lost (Tinariwen)
Media is the weapon of the unarmed, but also by the otherwise armed. Whatever the battlefield is – use it! denounce the crimes and lies by the enemy, shoot the arrows of truth!
Because lies can never prevail, it´s always the truth that prevails in the end.
Khamidoune Ag Toumast: from another related posting –
“After a period of absence from Facebook I returned to find the battle raging between me and the cheerleaders of the criminals falsely called the Malian army.
This army not only commits crimes on the ground but has also opened a new front: Falsifying the truth and distorting the cause of Azawad through social media. I know that my posts and responses may have annoyed some perhaps their frequency has tired you but this is our duty.
We are not merely responding to lies, we are confronting an organized campaign aimed at manipulating public awareness and tarnishing our legitimate struggle.
We must understand that the psychological war on social media is one of the most dangerous and powerful tools of struggle in this era.
It is not fought with guns alone, but with words, images, and positions. This war does not fire bullets but it changes minds shapes awareness and shifts the balance.
Whoever controls the narrative, controls the minds. And whoever masters influence can plant defeat or hope doubt or confidence in the hearts of thousands without ever leaving their seat.
This is what we the people of Azawad must understand.
Our enemy doesn’t fight us with weapons alone they spend millions to distort our cause silence our voices falsify our history and erase our existence from collective memory.
Shall we leave the arena for them? Shall we remain silent while they flood platforms with lies and slander?
No a thousand times no!
Every post we write every image we share every video we publish every voice we raise is an arrow in the heart of the occupation and a light on the path to freedom.
We are not fighting only for land, but for identity for dignity for the future.
And if psychological warfare is fought in the digital world then our weapon must be awareness creativity and determination to speak the truth.”
ENCOURAGE AND INSPIRE!
We must not forget to encourage each other and inspire each other, because the oppression is never taking a break. Therefore we too, must never take a break!
We must also never forget that on the internet nothing is private, nothing at all. Don`t believe everything you read, verify the information that you see.
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The Touaregs wherever they are must know that AES is an alliance designed to exterminate them. And that one of the main objectives of this alliance is to fight the Tuareg separatists of AZAWAD.
There are two principal battlefields and also a combination of them, the rough one on the terrain with arms, and the more subtle but also a very powerful one, in the media with words, pictures, videos, it`s a psychological war. Whatever is your battlefield, make sure to be on the right side of justice!
Those that stand up for the truth shines like bright stars in the darkness of evil and oppression, and in due time they will be rewarded, whether in this life or the hereafter.
A revolution is not fought with weapons alone!
Azawad Support Group
13-07-25