These are the kinds of testimonies that send shivers down your spine – gathered by telephone – which, for the first time in such a clear and precise manner, accuse Wagner’s mercenaries of rape in Mali.
As revealed by Radio France Internationale (RFI), the Malian Armed Forces (FAMA), accompanied by their deputies from the Russian private military company Wagner and traditional dozo hunters, raided the village of Nia Ouro, near Sofara, in the Mopti region, in the centre of the country, at dawn on 4 September.
That day, Amadou* was at home with his wife. Some of the men in the village, warned of the arrival of an armed convoy, fled into the bush to hide. Some women followed them with their children. At around 9am, some dozos came through his door and ordered him and other inhabitants to come out. “They told me that the FAMA wanted to talk to me. They took me to the soldiers who asked me
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