War of words erupts after killings in Mali anti-terror operation
Soldiers of the Barkhane Force and the Malian army patrol in a street of Menaka, in the region of Liptako. The Mali Junta and Kremlin-backed Wagner Group have been accused of killing hundreds of people in a recent operation. PHOTO | FILE
Did the Malian junta, working with Russian security contractor Wagner Group, kill people wrongly labelled as terrorists? That was the question at the UN Security Council, where the West and Russia sparred over who should bear responsibility for the March operation that left hundreds of people dead in Moura following a counterterrorism operation by the Malian Armed Forces, with the alleged involvement of the Wagner Group.
France had tabled a draft calling for a “thorough and independent investigations to establish the facts” and bring to justice those responsible.
