War Atleast 500 Believed Dead 2022 Mali Massacre (Wagner PMC Thought to Be Involved)

[DeathHand]

UN Human Rights Report Says Atleast 500 Believed Dead in Mali Village Massacre Last Year​

Dakar, Senegal
May 12, 2023

Malian forces backed by foreign military personnel are believed to have killed at least 500 people over several days in a village last year, the U.N. said Friday, significantly raising the death toll from what already has been called the worst single atrocity in Mali’s decade-long fight against extremist groups. The new report from the U.N. Human Rights Office details the violence that took place in the village of Moura in central Mali over the course of five days, and raises a previous toll of 300 dead given by Human Rights Watch.

U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk called the findings “extremely disturbing.”

“Summary executions, rape and torture during armed conflict amount to war crimes and could, depending on the circumstances, amount to crimes against humanity,” Turk said.

Malian authorities have said that their operation last March neutralized extremists and didn’t allow U.N. investigators to visit the village. U.N. investigators analyzed satellite imagery in addition to speaking with victims and witnesses, the report said. France and others have alleged that the Malian forces in Moura were aided by Russian mercenaries from the Wagner Group. In Friday’s report, investigators also cited similar evidence of foreign involvement.

“Witnesses reported seeing ‘armed white men’ who spoke an unknown language operating alongside the Malian forces and at times appearing to supervise operations,” the U.N. Human Rights Office said. “According to witnesses, Malian troops were rotated in and out of Moura daily, but the foreign personnel remained for the duration of the operation.”

Despite nine years of help from the French military and a large U.N. peacekeeping mission, Mali has been unable to stem violence from Islamic extremist groups. In August 2020, an army colonel overthrew the country’s democratically elected president, further destabilizing the West African nation.

Col. Assimi Goita became the country’s leader after mounting a second coup nine months later, and relations between his government and France and the United Nations sharply deteriorated in the months that followed. France ultimately relocated all of its troops in Mali to neighboring Niger, and Mali’s government reached out to Wagner Group, a Russian mercenary outfit blamed for atrocities in other countries where it operates.

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[Rabidface]

Crikey

 

[machopants]

True or another agenda at play

 

[Guipago]

When you look at all the war zones in Africa Wagner is lurking, they are going for the oil & gold mines in these countries & getting the concessions from corrupt governments.

 

[D.O.A.]

When you look at all the war zones in Africa Wagner is lurking, they are going for the oil & gold mines in these countries & getting the concessions from corrupt governments.

How many decades have the colonial french and their mercenaries or UN been in places like that and achieved nothing? They're crying because China and Russia offer better deals to whatever dictator rules the area this week. Money talks, bullshit walks.

 

[Graziani]

Senegal

 

[D.O.A.]

True or another agenda at play

Of course, the west is losing its grip on Africa.

Everything radically changed in Africa over the last 18 months since then, however. France’s “sphere of influence” in the Central and Western parts of the continent has been shattered as a result of Russia’s successful “Democratic Security” policies in the CAR and Mali, with Paris now needing N’Djamena much more than the inverse. Furthermore, not a single African country complied with the West’s demands to sanction Moscow for its special operation in Ukraine, thus exposing the limits of its influence nowadays

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[Varmint Hunter]

Fuck being an unarmed civilian in one of these shitholes.

Wagner tried to do the same to Ukrainian farmers and civilians in the first weeks of the invasion. But Ukraibe relaxed it's gun laws in the whole year preceeding the invasion and many people were already armed and fully ready. Ukrainian farmers fucked them up and took their gear to sell on the dark web.

 

[pebkam]

USA creates ISIS
(by murdering those who kept ISIS in check)

Wagner Group makes millions fighting ISIS.

USA should have just sent the money straight to Vladimir and saved everyone the trouble.

Fucking morons.

 

[Ravishing Rick Rude]

How many decades have the colonial french and their mercenaries or UN been in places like that and achieved nothing? They're crying because China and Russia offer better deals to whatever dictator rules the area this week. Money talks, bullshit walks.

That's so true , everyone forgets about the paltry NATO peacekeepers in Africa, I remember when the Tutsis took on the Hutus( probably spelled it wrong) in Rwanda in the 90s , I was about 14 or 15 but I remember watching what little need Canada was showing , and yeah , the UN didn't help then , good point DOA, got me thinking 👍

 

[pebkam]

When you look at all the war zones in Africa Wagner is lurking, they are going for the oil & gold mines in these countries & getting the concessions from corrupt governments.

so basically what you're saying is Russia & China now do exactly the same as the Brits and the Yanks?

 

[Guipago]

so basically what you're saying is Russia & China now do exactly the same as the Brits and the Yanks?

Pretty much, though, when looking at it the Brits & Yanks gave the countries back to legitimate governments, corrupt as they were, with Russia poking its nose in the body counts are higher & they're buggers to get rid of, Africa has been left to itself for a long time, China has been on the West coast of Africa for over 30 yrs & its been pretty peaceful, Wagner turns up & bodies turn up.
Here's an interesting piece on what China's up to, right on Russia's doorstep.
China's Xi Jinping unveils grand development plan for Central Asia

 

[dwdays]

It’s a good start.

 

[Christopher Hitchens]

How many decades have the colonial french and their mercenaries or UN been in places like that and achieved nothing? They're crying because China and Russia offer better deals to whatever dictator rules the area this week. Money talks, bullshit walks.

Well China and Russia won’t pressure them to do shit about human rights, corruption, or democracy so dictators like that.