{"id":5292,"date":"2025-04-12T21:10:05","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T21:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freeazawad.com\/?p=5292"},"modified":"2025-04-14T17:19:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T17:19:31","slug":"zarhou-was-not-a-village-it-was-a-bleeding-wound-in-the-body-of-azawad-turned-into-a-mass-grave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeazawad.com\/en_gb\/zarhou-was-not-a-village-it-was-a-bleeding-wound-in-the-body-of-azawad-turned-into-a-mass-grave\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;ZARHOU WAS NOT A VILLAGE&#8230; IT WAS A BLEEDING WOUND IN THE BODY OF AZAWAD TURNED INTO A MASS GRAVE!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"932\" height=\"647\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/freeazawad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/zarho7-kopiera.jpg?fit=932%2C647&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/freeazawad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/zarho7-kopiera.jpg?w=932&amp;ssl=1 932w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/freeazawad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/zarho7-kopiera.jpg?resize=300%2C208&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/freeazawad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/zarho7-kopiera.jpg?resize=768%2C533&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/freeazawad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/zarho7-kopiera.jpg?resize=18%2C12&amp;ssl=1 18w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 932px) 100vw, 932px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Zarhou was not a village\u2026 it was a bleeding wound in the body of Azawad, and they turned it into a mass grave!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Oh God\u2026 the tragedy of Zarhou cries out in the face of a world that has chosen to remain silent!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">In the Azawad village of Zarhou, there was no army\u2026 there were no weapons\u2026 only simple people, inhabiting the land as nostalgia inhabits our hearts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">But without mercy, the Wagner hordes and the Malian militias entered, like a storm of hatred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">They burned down homes, looted whatever was light and valuable, and slaughtered everyone present: women, children, the elderly, and even infants were not exempt from this brutality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Blood flowed over the soil of Zarhou, and the sound of screams mingled with the ululations of funeral processions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Is this the &#8220;peace&#8221; that Mali is promoting?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Is this the &#8220;fight against terrorism&#8221; with which Russia covers up the Wagner massacres?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">He who hides for days remains naked\u2026<br>And here are the massacres exposing intentions and revealing the mask of occupation disguised as a state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">With the silent complicity of the Malian regime and its Russian allies, the terrorist Wagner militias and Malian criminals committed a brutal massacre in the Azawad village of Zarhou. Innocent people were slaughtered like sheep, bodies were burned under the rubble of their homes, and the bodies of infants were seen thrown into the fires like firewood!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"is-style-wide wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><em>We direct our questions to the world:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"\">Where is &#8220;international legitimacy&#8221; when a defenseless people are being slaughtered?!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">How does Russia allow Wagner criminals to &#8220;fight terrorism&#8221; while they kill children with knives?!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Is your silence, bought with the blood of Africans, the price of Russian gas and oil?! <em>We declare it with a voice that shakes the thrones of tyrants:<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Zarhou&#8217;s blood will not dry until every hand that assassinated her is held accountable!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">We will not forget, we will not forgive, and we will not kneel!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><em>#ZarhouMassacre is not a number in your fake statistics\u2026 It is a stain on the brow of humanity!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"is-style-wide wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Azawad Freedom Voice<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">12-04-25<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-link-color wp-elements-bbc451ac11c6172b04f7e896fe0623f8\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freeazawad.com\/\">H  O  M  E<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zarhou was not a village\u2026 it was a bleeding wound in the body of Azawad, and they turned it into a mass grave!&#8221; Oh God\u2026 the tragedy of Zarhou cries out in the face of a world that has chosen to remain silent! 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