Tag: French_Colonialism
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IT WAS IN 1958 THAT THE LEADERS OF AZAWAD DEMANDED FRANCE TO NOT LINK THEIR LANDS TO SOUTHERN MALI
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It was in 1958 that the at the time tribal chiefs of Azawad demanded that their lands not be linked to Southern Mali. Unfortunately France ignored it and unjustly attached it to Mali, which by the way, they created in 1960. And by doing that, they started a 65 year…
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STATEMENT ON THE QUESTION OF AZAWAD AND CALL FOR INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION
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Statement on the Question of Azawad and Call for International Recognition.
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THE FALSIFICATION OF TUAREG HISTORY PAVES THE WAY FOR POLITICAL AND CULTURAL MARGINALIZATION
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Danger alert: Urgent – The Tuareg, a millennia-old people of the Sahara, are today seeing their history and identity jeopardized by an insidious falsification that threatens their collective memory. This distortion, whether intentional or unrecognized, is gradually erasing the truth about their origins, the richness of their culture, and the…
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WHILE THE TANKERS ARE BURNING… AND MORE AZAWADIAN CIVILIANS ARE MURDERED…
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Pictures from the national highway connecting Bamako to Kayes. Tanks are burning and billions of CFA francs are lost as well lives, drivers executed or held captive by armed groups. And NO, the Azawad Liberation Front are not involved in this. But Bamako still call them “terrorists”, them, and all…
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THE ETHNOCIDE OF THE AZAWADIANS
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Propaganda dehumanizes to legitimize the unacceptable. A case study by Rania Hadjer In the case of Azawad, the problem lies not only in the violence perpetrated, but also in its acceptability in the eyes of the public. As other tragedies throughout history have shown, ethnocide or genocide becomes possible when…