Near the city of Djenné, soldiers, Russian supplies and traditional dozos hunters would have “asked women to undress and touch up”.
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The information is still plot and the voices which are expressed require anonymity for fear of reprisals. Sunday, September 4, according to several sources, the Malian army, with its Russian and local auxiliaries, the traditional Dozos hunters, from the Dogon community, have been guilty of sexual assault and looting on civilian populations in the village Nia Ouro, close to the city of Djenné, in the center of the country.
The magnitude and gravity of these violence still have to be specified, but they seem to have been prepared and register in the context of an effort of military reconquest, tainted by multiple abuses of which the Peules are the first victims .
According to an attentive observer in the region, the operation was decided the day before the attack, during a meeting of Dozos in the neighboring locality of Somadougou. “They had already come two weeks earlier in search of weapons and fighters. They think that Nia Ouro is a nest of jihadists,” he said.
But when, Sunday, around 6 a.m., the Malian Armed Forces trio (FAMA), paramilitaries of the Wagner group and traditional hunters penetrate the places, men have already fled in the bush. Only the elderly, children and women to question. The village entries and exits are completed. The dozos take a stand in the health center, when the soldiers and those whom Bamako presents as Russian “instructors” settle in the school. 2>
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“I do not know if there were deaths, but I know that they destroyed shops, stolen value goods like jewelry and livestock. The Russians also entered the houses and have Asked women to undress. They photographed them naked, touched, “continues the source cited above. Testimonies obtained by RFI report rape. While the population has since refugeed for a good part in the neighboring villages and in the locality of Sofara, the Dozos hunters would have threatened on Tuesday burn Nia Ouro.
Accusations of sexual violence have already been brought against the paramilitaries of the Wagner group in 2021 in the Central African Republic by the United Nations experts. Human rights organizations have reported rape in Moura, another village in the center of Mali that has become sadly famous for having been the scene of a massacre of at least 300 people at the end of March.
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