A soldier walks amid the damage after an attack by gunmen on Fulani herders in Ogossagou, Mali on March 25, 2019.Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.BAMAKO — The United Nations has dispatched human rights experts to central Mali to investigate a weekend massacre of at least 157 villagers seen as one of the worst acts of bloodshed in a country beset by ethnic violence.
International Criminal Court chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda said this week that the crimes could fall under ICC jurisdiction and that a delegation would be sent to Mali. A U.N. Security Council mission was already visiting the West African state to seek solutions to ethnic violence when the massacre occurred.
The attack came less than a week after an Islamist assault on an army post that killed at least 23 soldiers, also in Mali's central region. That attack was claimed by an al Qaeda affiliate. Tacit outsourcing of the fight against jihadists to vigilante groups with scores to settle has unleashed ethnic strife across the Sahel. In neighboring Burkina Faso at the end of December, ethnic Mossi militia killed dozens of Fulani in revenge for the killing of a village chief by jihadists.
This is the same area where Christians were just killed. No reporting on that.
NBC why aren't you covering this news?
I would like to suggest that the U.N. , especially Refugees investigate U.S. treatment of refugees.
They’ll Probably Contract SNC-LAVALIN To Do The Work ; Since They Are Already Over There Changing The Diapers on The 200 or So Peacekeepers Trudeau & Harjit Already Have Over There Protecting The Villagers From The Onslaught of TheTuaregs.