The figures by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) amount to the worst atrocity the Sahel country has experienced since a jihadist insurgency flared in 2012. The report was published after a lengthy investigation by the human rights division of the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali, MINUSMA. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk called the findings “extremely disturbing”. Russia questionMali is ruled by a military junta which in 2020 toppled the country’s elected president amid protests over the failure to roll back the jihadists. But five days later, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said 300 civilian men, some of them suspected jihadists, were summarily killed.

Source: The North Africa Journal May 12, 2023 13:04 UTC