Mali's army together with suspected Russia-linked Wagner group mercenaries have committed summary executions, lootings, forced disappearances and other abuses, said a leading human rights group Monday.
Human Rights Watch said the atrocities happened in Mali's central region and that several dozen civilians were summarily executed or forcibly disappeared since December 2022. The human rights group interviewed 40 people by phone, including witnesses, and reviewed a video "showing evidence of abuses by Malian soldiers and associated foreign fighters."
Most of the civilians killed, arrested or forcibly disappeared are from the Fulani ethnic group, which extremists have targeted for recruitment. In a response to correspondence by HRW, Mali's foreign affairs ministry said it was not aware of the abuse and that an investigation would be opened into the allegations.
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