Exposing the Truth That Some Are Trying to Obscure Behind False Slogans. The Azawad issue is not just a claim, but rather the suffering of a people who have been subjected to oppression and marginalization for decades and who have continued their legitimate struggle for self-determination and basic rights. The Azawad Army does not wage expansionist wars or target innocents. Rather, it defends its land and people against an occupying army that has committed documented massacres, and against hired militias that practice genocide and displacement under official cover.
When the legitimate resistance of an oppressed people is classified as terrorism, while daily violations by the Malian army and its affiliated militias are ignored, the real question is not about justifying Azawad’s position, but rather about the double standards used to describe who is a terrorist and who is a defender of their cause. Is the term “terrorist” applied to those fighting on their own land in defense of their people, or to those who kill civilians, burn villages, and displace families?
Discussions about terrorism must be balanced and fair. Those who support the machine of oppression and ethnic cleansing cannot lecture on terrorism. Forces claiming to be fighting terrorism have done nothing but target civilians, carry out summary executions, and create chaos to justify their continued occupation. In contrast, the Azawad Army is committed to the principles of fair combat, respects prisoners, and protects the indigenous people who are part of this land and are not victims of political agendas or media disinformation campaigns.
History will not be written by the whims of oppressive regimes, but by the blood of free people who defend their dignity. Those who insist on turning a blind eye to the real crimes while attacking the Azawad resistance are revealing their true position: not a rejection of terrorism, but rather support for occupation and injustice.
Here, the prisoners of war who fell into the hands of the #Azawad forces during the #Battle_of_Achberech eight months ago are living testimony to the vast difference between those who defend their land with honor and those who send their soldiers to fight in a land that is not theirs without a just cause. Colonel Ibrahim Sidibé, known as Ibrahim Touré, and other prisoners live in better conditions than they did in their army barracks, not because they enjoyed privileges, but because the ethics of the Azawad fighters dictate that prisoners be treated humanely, unlike what the Malian army does to innocent people, with killing, torture, and forced displacement.
The Battle of Achberech was a watershed moment that revealed the fragility of the Malian army on the ground in Azawad, as its barracks fell one after the other, leaving behind defeated soldiers and prisoners treated with more dignity than they had been given under the leadership of a government that did not even care about their fate.
This is a paradox. This alone is enough to expose who the real terrorists are and who the champions of the just cause are. Azawad forces have proven that they treat prisoners according to humanitarian principles, while FAMA forces practice field executions, torture, and the cold-blooded burning of villages.
As for those who mock the fate of their army’s prisoners, they should ask themselves why their forces have become unable to withstand the Azawad resistance? Why are defeats and captures repeated in every confrontation? And why doesn’t the Bamako government dare to seriously demand its prisoners? Simply because, to them, these prisoners are just numbers, while for the Azawad people, they are further evidence of the failure of the military occupation and the triumph of the liberation cause.
History is being written now and will tell future generations how the people of Azawad resisted honorably while the occupier fell into the trap of its arrogance. It will tell how peoples struggling for their freedom are invincible, no matter how hard the occupier tries to impose a false reality with weapons and force. Occupation and tyranny do not last, and those who commit these atrocities will be held accountable, if not today, then tomorrow, because justice may be delayed, but it never dies.
The real issue here is not whether or not prisoner Ibrahim Touré is cooking, but rather what this case reveals about the nature of this conflict. Ibrahim Touré, like other prisoners, is treated humanely and in accordance with the laws of war, unlike the thousands of Azawad civilians who were subjected to massacres, torture, and displacement at the hands of the Malian army.
If he appears miserable, it is not because he is cooking, but perhaps because he realizes that his government has abandoned him, that his army is collapsing, and that the war he was thrown into was merely an illusion built on oppression. And persecution against a people demanding only their legitimate rights.
He is still alive and well, not thanks to the mercy of the Malian regime, but because of the morality of the Azawad fighters, who even respect their enemies when they become prisoners. It is a lesson in honor that must be learned by those who commit murder and torture against innocent civilians. In this conflict, the real misery lies not in the status of a prisoner who is treated with dignity, but in a regime that knows nothing but rule through terror and injustice.
Khamidoune_Ag_Tomast
17-03-25
Free✊#Azawad✌
The Azawad Army does not wage expansionist wars or target innocents.
Rather, it defends its land and people against an occupying army that has committed documented massacres, and against hired militias that practice genocide and displacement under official cover.
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