In the centre of Mali went armed men early on Tuesday to attack against a group belonging to the fulanibefolkningen. During an attack dog 37 civilians. Several of the dead are children, reports the news agency Reuters.
The malian government said in a statement that the attackers, who had dressed as the traditional hunters associated donzobefolkningen, attacked the village Koulogon in the region of Mopti, about 50 miles northeast of the capital Bamako. The event shall be considered as part of an ethnic conflict.
, the mayor of the neighboring village of the city of Bankass, occurred the attack in connection with this morning’s first böneutrop.
the Incident is the latest of ethnically-motivated attacks that have struck the country recently. Violence between fulanibefolkningen and other groups have been frequent.
she describes how the conflict between islamic extremists and the regional communities that provide support to the government in Bamako, claiming many human lives. Among other things, was shot twelve civilians belonging to the tuareg people of eastern Mali in september, and 20 persons belonging to the same group, was shot dead by masked assailants on motorcycles, which DN reported on 2 October. During the first nine months of 2018 had around 200 people have died in similar events.
Ever since the rebels associated tuaregbefolkningen went into a weak alliance with the islamists and took control of the northern part of the country in 2012 has Mali been hard-pressed by the military conflict in the country.
