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French accuse Russian mercenaries of staging burials in Mali

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4.22.22
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso -- The French military has released videos appearing to show Russian mercenaries burying bodies near an army base in northern Mali, which it says is part of a smear campaign against the French who handed the base to Malian forces earlier this week. Aerial surveillance images taken by the French military on Thursday morning and provided to The Associated Press show what appear to be 10 Caucasian soldiers covering approximately a dozen Malian bodies with sand 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) east of the Gossi military base in the country’s north, according to a French military officer who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the press on the matter. In the video one of the soldiers appears to be filming the scene. The Caucasian soldiers in the video are believed to be members of the Wagner Group, a Russian mercenary force, the officer said. Several tweets with pictures of the bodies have been posted on accounts that support Russia or fake accounts created by Wagner, the officer said. The tweets blame the French for the killings and the burials, according to the French officer.

The French army transferred control of the Gossi base to Malian soldiers on Tuesday, in what the French said was a safe, orderly and transparent manner. Later that day a “French sensor observed a dozen Caucasian individuals, most likely belonging to the Wagner Group,” and a detachment from the Malian army arrive at the Gossi site and unload equipment, said the French military in a confidential report that was seen by AP. The French military said the move to discredit the French forces operating in northern Mali is part of a coordinated campaign of multiple information attacks on them that has been going on for months. “The Wagner Group and the Malian Armed Forces appear to be taking disregard for human life to new levels in Mali,” said Alex Thurston, assistant professor of political science at the University of Cincinnati in the United States. About 1,000 of the Russian mercenaries are believed to be operating in Mali, according to military experts. The apparently staged graves can be seen as the latest example of Russia’s disinformation campaign to damage France’s reputation and it also reflects badly on Mali’s army, which must have been aware of the Russians’ actions, said Rida Lyammouri, senior fellow at the Policy Center for the New South, a Moroccan-based organization focused on economics and policy.


Russian Wagner mercenaries are also engaging in murder and human trafficking in the Central African Republic (CAR).

Wherever, the Russian military goes, murder and mayhem follow.
 

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Russian Wagner mercenaries are also engaging in murder and human trafficking in the Central African Republic (CAR).

Wherever, the Russian military goes, murder and mayhem follow.



Shouldn't this be in the Africa Folder?
 
They ARE Russian war criminals. I chose this sub-forum.



As is your right. It's hypothetical that the one who is notorious for whining about such mispostings makes an exception for himself.
 
As is your right. It's hypothetical that the one who is notorious for whining about such mispostings makes an exception for himself.

Raise your hand the next time the staff is looking for a new Mod.
 
Raise your hand the next time the staff is looking for a new Mod.


You are not the staff! You act like the General Secretary of DebatePolitics Soviet all the time.
 
You are not the staff! You act like the General Secretary of DebatePolitics Soviet all the time.

You post your nonsense all over this forum lol.

Take your victimhood whine elsewhere.
 
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