Mali - Islamist Armed Groups Spread Fear in North
Three Islamist armed groups controlling northern Mali have committed serious abuses against the local population while enforcing their interpretation of Sharia, or Islamic law, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch in recent weeks has interviewed some one hundred witnesses who have fled the region or remain there.
The three rebel groups – Ansar Dine, the Movement for Unity and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO), and Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) – have recruited several hundred children into their forces; carried out executions, floggings, and at least eight amputations as punishment; and systematically destroyed numerous religious shrines of cultural and religious importance.In April 2012, the rebel groups consolidated their control over the northern regions of Kidal, Timbuktu, and Gao. (...)
The article:
http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/09/25/mali-islamist-armed-groups-spread-fear-north
Sull'argomento:
http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/2012/12/05/nel-covo-di-al-qaeda.html
Gli ultimi sviluppi:
http://www.repubblica.it/esteri/2012/12/11/news/mali_colpo_stato-48501562/?ref=HREC1-12
http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/12/20/mali-rising-ethnic-tensions-threaten-new-violence
http://www.repubblica.it/esteri/2012/12/23/news/islamisti_mali_timbuctu-49341545/?ref=HREC2-1
http://www.gfbv.it/2c-stampa/2013/130114it.html
Il reportage:
http://espresso.repubblica.it/dettaglio/articolo/2026021?ref=HREC2-2
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