DEMONSTRATIONS IN DIJON TO CONDEMN CRIMES AGAINST THE POPULATION IN AZAWAD.
Demonstrations took place in Dijon on August 31 to denounce the crimes committed by the Malian junta and Wagner against the people of Azawad. The demonstration was well attended and was widely shared and discussed on social networks and in press articles in Europe. This shows that there is support for the cause of Azawad. Here is a summary of the demonstration in images and the speech of the president of the Azawad Solidarity association, Ayoub Attaher.
The speech by the President of Azawad Solidarity, Ayoub Attaher, on August 31, 2024 during the demonstration to condemn the crimes committed daily against the innocent populations of Azawad:
Today we are standing in this historic city of Dijon to declare our unwavering solidarity with the Azawadian people following the ethnic and systematic cleansing of which they are victims on the part of the Malian junta and its Russian Wagner auxiliaries with the support of the Sahelian coalition (AES) and Turkey, and this in full view of the whole world.
Silence is no longer an option!
Every minute of inaction contributes to the massacre of innocent people. For more than a year, the Tuaregs, Arabs and Fulani have been victims of an unprecedented genocide. Their property is looted or destroyed, their villages are burned and the few rare sources of water they have are poisoned with the sole aim of emptying the region of its original inhabitants and installing a new population from the south. This is the summary of what the illegitimate government of Bamako plans for peace in the Azawad region.
Today, we defend justice, human rights and peace, the foundations of which are collapsing every day because of a criminal policy and the shameful actions of the Malian junta.
This is why we call on the European Union, France in particular, to intervene and put pressure for the return of peace and especially to put an end to all support or collaboration with the putschists in Mali. We also call on the UN Secretary-General and the international community to hold an emergency meeting on the humanitarian situation in Azawad, to conduct an international investigation into the crimes committed in the region and finally to accelerate the establishment of a humanitarian corridor to rescue the refugees in Azawad.
We also call on the International Criminal Court to issue an immediate arrest warrant against the members of the Malian junta and to prosecute them for their crimes against unarmed civilians in Azawad.
Our European and non-European friends, thank you for standing with us and declaring your solidarity with the Azawadian people. We, here on behalf of the Azawad Solidarity Association, are launching a humanitarian appeal to provide assistance to the refugees, the wounded and the orphans. Azawad Solidarity aims to be the link between you (Europeans and the world in general) and the wounded and refugee populations.
Our message to the Azawadian people…
O people of Azawad, you who are unwavering in the face of the Sahelian coalition (AES) and the Russian mercenaries of Wagner, we salute you and call on you to be patient and resist. You are on the right side of history and for more than a century you have paid a lot, you have made so many sacrifices for freedom and dignity.
Your sons wrote, a few weeks ago in the immortal battle of Tin-Zawaten, the most brilliant page of history by their victory against the Russian mercenaries despite being more numerous and better equipped than you. Today, you face the countries of the Sahel Alliance and their supporters, but you will defeat them because you are the holders of the truth and the holder of the truth will always be the winner.
Message to neighboring countries…
We cannot forget to also thank our brothers in history, blood and destiny, the peoples of the Greater Maghreb, Amazighs and Arabs for the sympathy they have shown towards the Azawadian people in the resistance against the dictatorial regime.
We hope that our cry for justice will be heard and will lead to concrete political and humanitarian actions. The Azawadian people need you to block the state terrorism that the criminal junta of Mali is establishing against them.
Thank you for your presence!
Ayoub Attaher
President of the Azawad Solidarity association
As part of the youth of the Azawadian diaspora in EUROPE. We are organizing for the first time in Dijon a demonstration this Saturday, August 31 in Darcy.
On the one hand, to denounce the repression that the people of AZAWAD have been suffering for years by the Malian authorities always supported by foreign powers.
Especially the events of recent years where the people of Azawad have sacrificed for their self-determination and to learn their destiny in hand.
In 2015, peace agreements were signed in mediation by Algeria, a neighboring country, and the international community for a broad autonomy of the Azawad zone while keeping the central power for Bamako.
Except in the meantime, coups d’état have taken place and the latest is the current one of the Assimi Goita junta accompanied by Wagner’s mercenaries, a militia classified as the most dangerous in the world.
In fact, the Bamako junta is repressing its own population in the south and has been systematically massacring the population of Azawad for over 3 years now, the majority of whom are women and children, etc.
On the other hand, as conscious, awakened and committed Azawadian youth in Dijon and elsewhere, we are launching an urgent appeal for all political and humanitarian organizations to act to support the Azawadian population and its independence movements in their dignified and humane struggle.
To build lasting peace
AKASSA Collective
Azawad Support Group 31-08-24
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