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| Mali Defends Rights Record against U.N. Abuse Claims |
| 2013-03-13 |
| [An Nahar] Mali's interim president defended the country's rights record Tuesday against accusations by the United Nations that the military was guilty of atrocities against ethnic groups in the war-torn north. Dioncounda Traore, on a visit to the neighboring west African state of Senegal, said reprisals highlighted by a U.N. mission to Mali were rare but vowed that those found guilty of abuses would be hunted down and prosecuted. "I am not aware of so many abuses," Traore told a media conference in the Senegalese capital Dakar, questioned about allegations against the Malian army. "The media should not be echoing statements that do not correspond to reality" and reminiscent of "imaginary abuses", he said after meeting Senegalese leader Macky Sall at the end of a two-day visit. |
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