UN probe accuses Mali army of war crimes, armed groups of crimes against humanity
Tuesday 22/December/2020 - 02:25 PM
UN investigators into violence in Mali have told the
Security Council of evidence that security forces committed war crimes, while
jihadists and other armed groups perpetrated crimes against humanity.
The allegations are made in a massive 338-page report
compiled by the International Commission of Inquiry, a three-member panel
probing events in Mali for six years after it spiralled into conflict in 2012.
"The
Commission has reasonable grounds to believe that the Malian defence and
security forces committed war crimes, including violence to the life and person
of civilians and persons hors de combat suspected of being affiliated or
cooperating with extremist armed groups," says the report, seen by AFP.
