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| Rights campaigners denounce abuses in Mali |
| 2013-06-08 |
| [Pak Daily Times] Rights campaigners accused Mali's army and different rebel groups Friday of a string of abuses during a French-led operation to liberate the divided west African nation from hard boys. "The Malian security forces' human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. record since January is, simply, appalling. They continue to violate human rights with apparently no fear of being held accountable," said The organization accused the French military and African troops of handing over prisoners to the Malian authorities "when they knew or should have known the detainees were at real risk of being tortured or ill-treated". Amnesty, which began a research mission in Mali in May, said it had collected testimonies of abductions and arbitrary killings of civilians by militias including the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO). "Armed opposition groups, including MUJAO and the Tuareg National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad were also accused of sexually abusing women and girls and using children to carry weapons, control checkpoints and cook," Amnesty said in a statement. |
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