{"id":3150,"date":"2025-02-10T16:32:06","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T16:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freeazawad.com\/?p=3150"},"modified":"2025-02-19T00:13:41","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T00:13:41","slug":"imagine-a-people-who-were-once-free-now-reduced-to-a-shadow-of-their-former-selves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeazawad.com\/en_gb\/imagine-a-people-who-were-once-free-now-reduced-to-a-shadow-of-their-former-selves\/","title":{"rendered":"IMAGINE A PEOPLE WHO WERE ONCE FREE, NOW REDUCED TO A SHADOW OF THEMSELVES"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Imagine a people who were once free, now reduced to a shadow of their former selves. Their land, once fertile and nourishing, has become a field of ruins under the assaults of a racist army and merciless mercenaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each village bears the scars of the passage of these executioners: burned tents, ravaged crops, poisoned wells, rivers soiled by the blood of the innocent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The cries of broken women echo in the accomplice of the world. They are hunted, reduced to prey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The children grow up in terror, their laughter replaced by tears of hunger and fear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The old people, witnesses of a past they no longer recognize, slowly die, deprived of everything, even a last look of tenderness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The massacres follow one another, methodical, implacable. It is not just about killing, but about erasing the last vestige of a people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ethnic cleansing is the rule, the scorched earth policy an irrevocable sentence.
Those who flee are hunted down, those who resist are crushed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And yet, in the midst of this nightmare, a glimmer persists.
In the eyes of a starving child,
in the hand of a mother clutching her last-born, in the fist of an old man shaking with rage.
Because a people can be wounded, but never erased as long as they carry memory and hope within them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The people are decimated alive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The images above bear witness to the presence of the Fama-Wagner couple somewhere in Azawad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They illustrate the daily lives of wounded peoples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tohima Ag Liblina 10-02-25<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Imagine a people who were once free, now reduced to a shadow of their former selves. Their land, once fertile and nourishing, has become a field of ruins under the assaults of a racist army and merciless mercenaries. Each village bears the scars of the passage of these executioners: burned tents, ravaged crops, poisoned wells, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113],"tags":[118,107,264,115,263,119,121,122,138,114,193,120,116,117],"class_list":["post-3150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-azawad-mali-fama-wagner-atrocities-terrorism-genocide-racism-human-rights-violations-humanitarian-crisis-civilian-victims","tag-atrocities","tag-azawad","tag-dignity","tag-fama","tag-fight_for_freedom","tag-genocide","tag-human-rights-violations","tag-humanitarian-crisis","tag-independence","tag-mali","tag-oppression","tag-racism","tag-terrorism","tag-wagner"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeazawad.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeazawad.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeazawad.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeazawad.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeazawad.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3150"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/freeazawad.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3668,"href":"https:\/\/freeazawad.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3150\/revisions\/3668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeazawad.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeazawad.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeazawad.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}