Here is an article from Sky news Arabia which in a report sourced from Kal Akal talks about the genocide and the atrocities that the malian governement with the help of the Russian mercenairies Wagner are doing to the civilian and defensless people of Azawad. The original article is only in arabic and there is no translator option on the page and therefore parts of the article is translated and somewhat rephrased in the interest of the fact that it´s of utmost importance that the world who largely are english speaking, can read and see what is happening in Azawad.
CALLS FOR INTERNATIONAL INVESTIGATION INTO HORRIFIC CRIMES IN AZAWAD
The Observatory for the Defense of Human Rights of the Azawad People (Kal Akal) addressed in a report the monthly violations against the people of the Azawad region committed by the Malian army and Wagner forces.
It described July as a “bloody and destructive month”, as widespread cases of human rights violations were recorded throughout the Azawad region, with increasing pressure in the Kidal region, through targeting civilians, infrastructure and the local economy.
DOCUMENTING KILLING AND RAPE
“Kal Akal”, which means “people of the land”, said in a statement obtained by Sky News Arabia, that units of the Malian army and the Wagner Group carry out incursions into camps and pastoral water points to commit random executions, often ending in beheadings and rape.
He added: “Animals are also killed randomly in the pastures, and sometimes taken for use as food or for resale, and even women’s scarves, household utensils and other items are seized,” according to the statement issued on Thursday evening.
The organization also reported that it had seen documents attributed to the Wagner Group, alleging that the Malian military junta gave the group the freedom to cleanse Azawad of its indigenous population in exchange for access to natural resources.
By intervening to investigate crimes and violations that the Malian army and Wagner forces were accused of committing in the Azawad region in the north of the country. The organizations announced documenting the killing of dozens of civilians during the month of July, and dozens of women being raped by those forces, their belongings stolen, and their homes destroyed.
During July, the organization recorded 116 deaths, all of them unarmed civilians who were arrested from their homes or met by Wagner and the Malian army on the road, or around water points to water their animals, and were executed en masse or individually. Cases of beheadings and burned bodies were also documented, in addition to mass graves.
The statement also revealed that dozens of girls had been raped, including a woman being raped and her elderly husband being killed, a Malian soldier raping a married woman in a camp for displaced persons in Lelehoui-Afod (Ansongo), and other incidents.
The organization called on the international community, especially human rights organizations, to assume their responsibilities in the context of the targeted genocide, which is taking place openly with confirmed support from Wagner, and to ensure that those who participate and contribute to the extrajudicial executions of civilians do not escape punishment.
He also called on humanitarian organizations and charitable organizations to provide assistance to refugees and displaced persons, who have already been suffering for a year.
GOLD MINE MASSACRE
In turn, the International Organization for Justice and Transparency (IMOHAUGH) condemned the bombing of the “In Tayar” area, which is home to a group of gold mines and which houses large groups of African workers whose livelihood depends mainly on what they extract from these mines, by a drone strike that killed dozens of workers in the area and displaced thousands of them towards the Algerian border.
A statement issued by the organization on Wednesday, a copy of which was obtained by Sky News Arabia, said that the site was subjected to a humanitarian disaster as a result of the airstrikes in which a drone was used to target gatherings of African workers, leaving at least 100 dead and dozens injured, most of whom were of Nigerian, Chadian and Burkinabe nationality.
The statement added: “This bombing caused great panic and the migration of thousands of Africans to Algerian territory, which could herald a serious humanitarian disaster.”
The organization described this act as “criminal and a war crime punishable by international law,” and called on the international community to assume its legal and moral responsibilities related to protecting defenseless civilians, holding those responsible for this crime accountable, and banning the sale of weapons.”
WARNING OF A TRAP
The Niger-based human rights organization MID also called on the country’s authorities not to get involved in what is happening in Mali and to create a link between all the rebellions in the Sahara Desert in the north.
They called on the international community and Algeria, which understands and always follows the situation of the Tuaregs in the region, to intervene with the international and Russian federal authorities to resolve the Tuaregs’ situation in the sub-region – once and for all – to avoid sliding into an endless war.
A statement issued by the organization on Thursday said: “We offer our unwavering support and solidarity to the innocent people of Azawad, who have been marginalized and isolated for a long time since 1963 in their ancestral lands.
It is absolutely unacceptable for Wagner to help the illegal putschists carry out ethnic cleansing in the Sahel region in disregard of international law.”
INTERNATIONAL INVESTIGATION
In turn, the head of the “Kal Akal” organization, Daoud Ak Badi, says that “his organization has been working for some time to document the violations committed by the Malian army and Wagner forces, and we prepare monthly reports on the violations and have a wide range of correspondents in various Azawad regions, documenting most of the violations that occur in the region.”
Ak Badi added to the “Sky News Arabia” website that “the Malian army and Wagner rely on a strategy of intimidation, committing atrocities, brutal killing, beheading, emptying bodies, looting money, and destroying shops, and they do not leave anything to terrorize the poor people to emigrate or flee with their skins.”
He revealed that “the organization documented these violations in the belief that the day will come when those responsible will be brought to trial for these crimes.”
https://www.skynewsarabia.com/world/1733231
02-08-24
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