{"id":10065,"date":"2026-01-11T20:47:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T20:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freeazawad.com\/?p=10065"},"modified":"2026-01-11T20:47:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T20:47:38","slug":"are-these-the-terrorists-that-the-malian-army-claims-to-be-fighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeazawad.com\/en_gb\/are-these-the-terrorists-that-the-malian-army-claims-to-be-fighting\/","title":{"rendered":"ARE THESE THE “TERRORISTS” THAT THE MALIAN ARMY CLAIMS TO BE FIGHTING?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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They came to burn down their village.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Khamidune Ag Toumast
04-01-25<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Are these the \u201cterrorists\u201d that the Malian army claims to be fighting\u2026?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They are children of Azawad<\/strong> who have never carried weapons, only frail bodies and innocent dreams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They are women of Azawad<\/strong> seeking shelter under their tents and on their land, which the Malian army has turned to ashes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They are defenseless elders and poor shepherds<\/strong>, who knew nothing but grazing, water, and the sky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even camels, cattle, and horses<\/strong> did not escape the killing machine, as they are the lifeblood of a people whom they seek to starve to extinction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are the \u201ctargets\u201d that the Malian army is eliminating under the pretext of \u201cfighting terrorism.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The naked truth: the Malian army is terrorism.
The Malian army does not fight terrorism; it practices it, legitimizes it, and enforces it by force on a defenseless people. What is happening in Azawad is not a security operation, nor a war against armed groups, but a policy of systematic, organized, and repeated extermination of civilians, especially children and women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Documented massacres\u2026 names engraved in blood.
In the Moura massacre, the Malian army committed one of the most atrocious crimes in the region\u2019s history:
civilians were gathered, hands were tied, mass executions were carried out, victims were buried in mass graves or left exposed to the elements, and survivors were hunted or forcibly disappeared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Gao, civilian gatherings were indiscriminately bombed. In Gossi, entire villages were burned after their residents were killed. In Hombori and Tessalit, dawn raids were conducted:<\/p>\n\n\n\n