Mali Decries ECOWAS After Burkina Faso's Army Accused of Massacre: WestAfrica
In a statement Thursday on Mali's state TV, ORTM, the government rejected the West African bloc's chairman's calling civilian killings"genocide."
An ORTM presenter read the Malian military government's response. The statement said the ECOWAS chairman's statements qualified the incident as genocide without any proof and that Embalo had imposed his will on the commission. In the televised report, Traore said the defense and security forces should not be immediately accused and that waiting on the results of an investigation was necessary.
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