{"id":5050,"date":"2017-09-27T11:21:47","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T11:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/?p=5050"},"modified":"2025-12-20T20:01:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T20:01:41","slug":"mali-authorities-on-the-defensive-after-exactions-accusations-against-the-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/mali-authorities-on-the-defensive-after-exactions-accusations-against-the-army\/","title":{"rendered":"Mali : Authorities on the defensive after exactions accusations against the army"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In Mali, the government \u201cwill not tolerate unfounded attacks that are likely to undermine the morale\u201d of the Malian armed forces, announced on Tuesday September 27 the Minister of Human Rights, Me Kassoum Tapo. A vigorous come out that comes two weeks after the publication of a <a href=\"http:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/human-rights-watch-accuses-the-malian-and-burkinabe-armies-of-abuses\/\">report by Human Rights Watch<\/a> (HRW) accusing the army of \u201ctorture\u201d and \u201cexecutions\u201d against civilians.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government will not accept\u201d, said the Malian Minister of Human Rights, after a three-day visit to the central regions of the country. \u201cWe went to the field to check the allegations made by Human Rights Watch in its report\u201d, said Mr. Tapo in several media. And the minister&#8217;s conclusion is categorical: \u201cthere was no exaction against anyone\u201d and \u201cS\u00e9var\u00e9\u2019s prison is a model\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A new report from the Malian authorities to respond to HRW<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The government accuses HRW of \u201ca lack of professionalism and seriousness\u201d. Promising the publication of a new report to respond to the human rights organization.<\/p>\n<p>In \u201cMali: les operations militaries donning lieu \u00e0 des abus\u201d, published on September 8, Human Right Watch announces the discovery of three mass graves containing \u201c14 executed men after detention&#8221; and the documentation of \u201c27 cases of enforced disappearance\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMalian forces have engaged in extrajudicial killings, torture and arbitrary arrests of men accused of supporting Islamist armed groups\u201d, HRW said. Charges rejected en bloc by the Malian authorities.<\/p>\n<a  class=\"vc_btn vc_btn-black vc_btn-sm vc_btn_square \" href=\"#\">Aboubacar Dicko<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Mali, the government \u201cwill not tolerate unfounded attacks that are likely to undermine the morale\u201d of the Malian armed forces, announced on Tuesday September 27 the Minister of Human Rights, Me Kassoum Tapo. A vigorous come out that comes two weeks after the publication of a report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) accusing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,62],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5050","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mali","8":"category-security"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5052,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5050\/revisions\/5052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}