Urgent #Timbuktu: A drone strike by the Malian junta targeted the Tin Aicha and Zouéra areas today in the Timbuktu area.
The first drone strike targeted the area of Tin Aicha and the second strike targeted the Zouéra market at the peak of its activity. Civilians were burned. Among the victims was an entire family.
In the photos we can see the smoke of the drone bombing hitting a civil market teeming with goods and people. The place is known for being a weekly, residential market and local merchants, with no military presence.
A hangar serving as a restaurant with 4 people inside burned, including a woman (cook) and her child. A restaurant turns into a family graveyard..
Note – There were no armed groups or terrorists present at the time of the strike.
This is not a fight targeting terrorists, it´s more than clear that this is pure bombing of civilians, and this a part of the genocide against Azawadians. They don`t even hide it anymore, the genocide intention is clear to all except those who prefer to stay blind.
Azawad Freedom Voice:
🔴 This is a complete war crime, and a direct assault on civilians –
Women, children, merchants, and passers-by have fallen under the fire of a military machine that does not distinguish between a target and an enemy.🛑 A question to the universal conscience:
Where are your red lines when innocents are being bombed?
Where is justice when markets are being targeted instead of camps?
The generals in Bamako keeps bombing the civilian populations in Azawad, they bomb rural areas with villages and nomadic communities.
This is a systematic and methodical military genocide, not much different from what we see happening in Gaza, just on a different scale, but not less cruel and inhuman. The aim is to empty the Azawad area (northern Mali) of its original inhabitants. Then replace them with people from the south who are more useful to the junta and to extract all the riches out the Azawad soil.
These drone strikes will and are aimed at resulting in destroyed communities, destroyed economics causing famines and bring about forced exile and displacements. The victims are always the Arabs (moors) Tuaregs, Fulanis and some others. All civilians.
When they cannot hide their genocide agenda anymore they act like “the injured dragon” and escalate the bombings with increased fury.
Where are the arrows of justice?
This is a systematic genocide on the people of Azawad with the aim to change the demographics.
We condemn these acts of violence towards civilians in the Azawad area. It`s grave violations against human rights and we call on the International community for justice.
Here is another article written by Mohamed AG Ahmedou – Deadly strike in Zouéra: when the Bamako junta targets civilians under the cover of the fight against terrorism.
UPDATE: [#Gao]now: 1:17 AM · Jul 9, 2025. The massacres continue:
The Malian coup military bombed a gold mine in the city of Intililt using a Turkish-made drone. The bombing left many dead among the gold prospectors, their bodies charred or torn to pieces.
Azawad Support Group
08-07-25