Mali's military and Russian mercenaries accused of killing 300 civilians in "anti-jihadist" operation

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

Russian mercenaries and Mali army accused of killing 300 civilians | Mali | The Guardian

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Human Rights Watch says deaths during anti-jihadist operation in Moura ‘the worst atrocity in Mali in a decade’

 

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Suspected Russian mercenaries participated in an operation with Mali’s army in March in which about 300 civilian men were allegedly executed over five days, Human Rights Watch (HRW) says.

 

Eyewitnesses and local community leaders said hundreds of men were rounded up and killed in small groups during the anti-jihadist operation on 23 March in the central town of Moura. The rural town of about 10,000 inhabitants is in the Mopti region, a hotspot of jihadist activity that has intensified and spread to neighbouring countries in the Sahel region.

 

Local security sources told HRW that more than 100 Russian-speaking men were allegedly involved in the operation, which HRW described as the worst single atrocity reported in Mali’s decade-long armed conflict. Witnesses spoke of white soldiers talking in an unfamiliar foreign language they believed to be Russian.

 

 

[CitizenVectron]

This was the Wagner Group? I heard that they were operating in Mali.

[Zaku3]

5 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said:

This was the Wagner Group? I heard that they were operating in Mali.

 

Most likely. 

 

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

7 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said:

This was the Wagner Group? I heard that they were operating in Mali.

 

I'd say that's a fair assumption.