{"id":5387,"date":"2019-06-13T11:59:01","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T11:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/?p=5387"},"modified":"2019-06-15T18:47:56","modified_gmt":"2019-06-15T18:47:56","slug":"mali-in-mopti-residents-say-no-to-killings-in-the-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/mali-in-mopti-residents-say-no-to-killings-in-the-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Mali : In Mopti, residents say \u201cno\u201d to killings in the region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A few dozen people expressed their discontent, Wednesday, June 12, in the afternoon, at the entrance of the city.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Banners, paper in hands, they chanted \u201cWe want peace in the Mopti region\u201d, \u201cNever again\u201d in front of the hotel which housed the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.primature.gov.ml\/index.php\/salle-de-presse\/actualites\/12084-visite-du-premier-ministre-a-sobane-da-jusqu-au-bout-de-l-horreur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Minister of Defense<\/a> who is there since yesterday.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe came out because we are tired of seeing our parents experience these kinds of tragedies.\u00a0 It was our relatives who were killed in the Bandiagara Circle\u201d, said a protester.\u00a0 And to add: \u201cWe can\u2019t understand that we are forbidden to enter or leave the city from 6pm.\u00a0 Also, we can\u2019t ride motorcycles anymore.\u00a0 Our Bozo relatives can no longer come for treatment while these same machines are still used to massacre people.\u00a0 We can\u2019t accept that anymore\u201d. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>This sit-in comes after the attack on the village of Sobane Da, in the rural commune of Sangha (Bandiagara circle), on the night of June 9 to 10.\u00a0 The report of <a href=\"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/mali-attaque-de-sobane-kou-sur-pres-de-300-habitants-environ-50-personnes-ont-repondu-a-lappel\/\">95 dead<\/a> previously announced has been scaled down.\u00a0 It has been reduced to 35 (11 adults and 24 children) the authorities announced.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDrawing lessons from this tragedy,\u201d the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.primature.gov.ml\/index.php\/communiques-du-conseil-des-ministres\/12085-communique-du-conseil-des-ministres-du-mercredi-12-juin-2019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Council of Ministers<\/a> meeting in an \u00a0ordinary session on Wednesday, \u201chas proceeded to the dismissal of the governor of the Mopti region\u201d, the final statement states.<\/p>\n<p>A three day mourning was decreed from Thursday, June 13 throughout the national territory in tribute to the victims of the attack.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sahelien.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few dozen people expressed their discontent, Wednesday, June 12, in the afternoon, at the entrance of the city. Banners, paper in hands, they chanted \u201cWe want peace in the Mopti region\u201d, \u201cNever again\u201d in front of the hotel which housed the Minister of Defense who is there since yesterday. \u201cWe came out because we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":5378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,62],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5387","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\/5387","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5388,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5387\/revisions\/5388"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}