In a speech addressed Keita to the country’s new military commander Aboulaye Coulibaly, who was appointed on Sunday then the predecessor sparkats with the reason of the massacre.
“We need security here, this is your mission,” said president Keita in his appearance.
” Justice will be done.
the village was attacked by a group armed with firearms and macheteknivar. Two days later, the number of confirmed deaths to rise.
– The new number is 160 dead and it will likely be even higher, ” says the local myndighetsföreträdaren Amadou Diallo.
An unnamed source within the malian military said the same thing.
many homes in the village have been burned and dead bodies are strewn in the sand between the houses. Many of those killed were women and children, state administrative sources for the AFP.
the 75-year-old Ali Diallo, who survived the attack, says he never has seen anything similar.
“They came, they shot people, they burned down homes, killed babies,” he says.
in the process. The perpetrators were suspected to belong to a different ethnic group, the dogon, and the massacre was described early on as ethnically motivated.
In line with the jihadist threat in the Sahel creeps south towards central Mali, the tensions between rival ethnic groups increased. In dogongruppen, it has formed armed organizations who have taken on the responsibility to protect its own group.
Last year, killed around 500 civilians in the violence between the dogon and the fulani, and the fulani and the group of the bambara, according to UN estimates. In January killed 37 people in a fulaniby not far from the Ogossagou, where the perpetrators singled out by the dogon.
On Sunday, in connection with president Keita kicked several of the nation’s military heads, was dissolved one of the largest armed dogonmiliserna.
when it should medlas and administered justice, according to Aurélien Tobie, peace research institute the Sipri expert in issues relating to the Sahel region. This is because it is difficult to discern who is in an armed group, who is the jihadist’s, or who is enemy to whom.
“Everybody is armed, but membership in one group or another varies according to personal, family or social interests, or, depending on the circumstances,” says Tobie.
Fatou Bensouda, prosecutor of the International criminal court (ICC), denouncing the massacre, and calls on all parties to refrain any further violence. She wants to see “the investigation and prosecution of those who participated in or otherwise contributed to what appear to be heinous crimes”, which according to her may fall under the ICC’s jurisdiction.
