Brutal attack "eye for eye" in Mali: they burned an entire village and massacred 95 people

For several years, Mali has been plunged into an increasingly violent struggle between local tribes. This weekend, at least 95 people were mbadacred a night attack in a village from the center of this African country.

This is a village in the community Dogon which was destroyed by terrorists who have not been identified. According to sources from the government of Mali consulted by the AFP agency, the attackers arrived on a motorcycle, surrounded the scene and shot anyone who was trying to escape. "Some were slaughtered or slaughtered, they also burned cattle and houses. No one has been saved, neither women, nor children, nor the elderly ", they reported.

The manner in which the murder was carried out is similar to others, which bear the mark of ethnic attacks "eye for an eye" has been going on for some time in this African country.

"We can not engage in a cycle of revenge," Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita told the state television in Switzerland on the centenary of the International Labor Organization (ILO). Then he asked that people "meet again" to "be reborn" and allow this country to "survive".

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres also condemned the attack and asked members of the tribe victim of the brutal mbadacre to "refrain" from retaliation. He also called for intercommunity dialogue "resolve tensions and disputes ".

Many of the victims' bodies were burned, as were the houses of the tribe, destroyed by the fire that set them on fire. about 50 terrorists They arrived on motorcycles and vans. In total, there were 95 dead, 38 injured and 20 missing.

The origin of the mbadacre

The mbadacre takes place less than three weeks after nearly 160 ethnic members were killed Peul o Peul killed in the village of Ogosagu by a group identified as being Dogon.

The ethnic battles intensified from 2011 5, while in central Mali, a jihadist group led by the preacher Amadou Koufa, recruited its members into the ethnic group of Peul, which have always been dedicated to livestock.

From this moment, the clashes they have multiplied exponentially between the different communities, Peul against bambara and the Dogon, which is always dedicated to agriculture.