Tin Hinan, the daughter of a decimated people, living with the weight of horror. Four-year-old orphan, surviving day after day in the uncertainty of waiting for her fifth year. Since its birth, humanity has been torn apart, and everyday life has turned into a never-ending nightmare:
– Peace has become a distant dream, something we dream of when we’re done crying our faces are extinguished.
– Dreaming is like hoping that a drop of water falling from the sky can calm the burning sand.
Since her birth, entire camps are wiped out, emptied, some destroyed and others bombed inhumanely and daily. Weak people pay a heavy price for their lives. Thousands of families destroyed, souls separated, and strong bonds broken.
Tin Hinan didn’t know her mom, and only knows very few faces, some of whom have only seen them once, passing by, as the camps are emptying. She didn’t know her because her mother, Tin Ahlan, died, succumbing to her injuries after a deadly drone strike by the Malian army.
Tin Hinan, before the bombing, was breastfeeding by her mother, and was found crying with all her might, sand and blood all over her body, next to her was her dead mother and so many other carcinated bodies.
Life has become unbearable. The girl is raised by her grandparents who decided to stay, despite the danger and fear, because their attachment to the desert is strengthened by a lack of choice. The little family moves from camp to camp, hoping to escape danger.
During these trips, Tin Hinan met some children of her age, families with similar lives to hers, some of which she will never see. She played with them, and then families part, faces part, and nostalgia remains.
Every day constitutes a lifetime. Between the overwhelming fear and the bittersweet nostalgia, her days seemed endless.
Tin Hinan, watching her desperate grandparents, decided to build her dream world, reliving the beautiful memories she had with the children she met.
Tin Hinan hoping for PEACE
Tohima Ag Liblina
Aglos camp – Tinzwatine – Azwad.
They have reached, according to some reports, to more than 160,000 displaced from the Azwad region (alleged north of Mali) fled the massacres and annihilations of Wagner-Russian mercenaries, the Army of the State of Mali, its Turkish-made marches, and the bloody ISIS organization.
Tens of thousands of families, displaced in waves, some of them asylum seekers to neighboring countries, measure the estates of massacres, genocide and ethnic cleansing trom the atorementioned criminal parties.
Martyrdom and tens of thousands remain crowded in tents where the lowest standards of living are lacking, tents that does not protect from neither the heat of summer nor the cold of winter and frost. Not to mention the bombing of marching aircraft raids.
Tens of thousands of innocent human souls are being persecuted, forcibly abandoned, murdered and exterminated, denied human rights in their land, they crowd over water resources to the extent of conflict, they sleep on empty bellies, after the cold cuts their bones and hardens their intestines.
While everyone is deliberately ignoring their sufferings and tragedies in their looted land and their 132 years without freedom.
Oh Allah, grant them their state.
Lahcen Ag Touhami
To give a background to the reson why there is no peace in Azawad and Mali, even this has been explained numerous times and in many places. The root of the problem has never been adressed and the problem is first of all – the post-colonial error that was done by France, ignoring the petiton in 1958, signed by hundreds of legitimate local authorities to NOT ATTACH AZAWAD TO MALI – the new centralized state they created without regard to the populations living there and their identities, cultures and reality.
And then – the genocidal oppression performed by the same genocidal Malian state and the Russian Africa Corps murder mercenaries. Targeting only defenseless civilians under the false pretext of “fighting terrorism” (leaving the real terrorists operating in the center and the south, in peace, they can have meetings by the hundreds and not a drone in sight) and then they try to blame the victims. While they bomb entire families in Azawad in the north, with Turkish made drones.
The ethnocentric and racialized Malian state is still refusing to treat the cause of the conflict. And until the root of the cause is adressed and solved, the violence will not stop because a people who are marginalized and oppressed and under a genocide will keep defending themselves regardless if Mali call them terrorists or whatever they want to call resistance against oppression.
These are not “external manipulations.” These are atrocities committed by Malian units, acknowledged in public reports.
Resolving the root cause involves also looking into their own mirror and admit that which was done in the past, and what is still done today, is nothing but state terrorism. The refusal to recognize the past and the cause of the conflict and instead keep terrorizing the Azawadians is not the way to get peace.
A grown man who kills a baby… nobody can come and say that he was fighting terrorism. And you cannot justify a drop of a child’s blood in the name of “unity.”
Tiare
Azawad Support Group
23-12-25