[International] “The same thing is happening in Ukraine and Gaza．．． Know the reality of Mali and stop the genocide，” says local journalist to the international community．
August 25, 2024, 12:00pm Tokyo Shimbun In Mali, West Africa, which is under military rule, tens of thousands of ethnic minorities have fled to neighboring Mauritania and are living harsh refugee lives. The background to this is the intensification of the conflict following the expansion of the Russian private military company Wagner. We spoke to journalist Arisa Decourt Toyosaki (53), who has been covering the local Tuareg minority group for many years, about the current situation. Without support from international organizations, in the desert with temperatures approaching 50 degrees Celsius Decôt, who has French and Japanese parents, first visited the Sahara Desert in northern Africa in 1997 and has since been filming documentaries and reporting on the desert-based Touareg caravan. “We are now on the brink of ethnic cleansing,” he said. In July of this year, we reported on the refugee camps scattered near the border. People were huddled under tents made of wooden poles and cloth. It is said that around 120,000 people have fled from the north since October last year, many of them ethnic minorities, primarily Tuaregs. 80% are women and children. With the exception of Doctors Without Borders, there is no support from international organizations. The temperature in the desert is close to 50 degrees. “The sanitary conditions are poor and infectious diseases are widespread.” ◆ Wagner’s advance makes the situation worse. The Tuareg were nomads in the Sahara Desert, stretching across Mali and Niger, until the independence of Mali and neighboring countries in the 1950s and 1960s. In Mali, Tuareg groups repeatedly rebelled against government oppression, demanding autonomy. The country declared independence in 2012, but the conflict has become more complicated as Islamic extremist groups have taken advantage of the turmoil to gain power. The situation worsened further with the establishment of a military junta in 2021. After the French troops withdrew, Russia instead approached the Malian government. Wagner advances, providing military support and intelligence operations. In 2023, the Malian military and Wagner invaded Tuareg group bases as part of “anti-terrorism measures.” As fighting continued, the Tuareg and another minority group, the Peul, also fled to neighbouring countries. Continue reading below.
>>1 This article is nothing more than “jealousy by France, which has lost its interests in Africa, towards Russia, which has support in Africa.” The Tokyo Shimbun has no right to call itself journalism, as it simply spews out the nonsense of so-called journalists without any verification. In particular, we cannot overlook the malicious manipulation of public opinion to make it seem as if Russia is committing genocide in Africa. I will never forgive Ota Rieko, who wrote this propaganda article (fake news). Western dogs are euthanized by slitting their anuses with a survival knife, causing fresh blood mixed with feces to spurt out.
>>5 The majority of residents are resentful of France’s exploitation, and most of them want to drive out the exploiters, and in order to do so they need to overthrow the puppet government, which has led to a conflict.
In reality, isn’t Wagner the one trying to maintain order? I don’t think it’s right to say bad things about Russians just because you want to praise Ukraine.
Genocide of ethnic minorities in Africa has been going on for decades, but it’s not talked about much and few people go to cover it. War journalists and photographers only go to places like the Middle East where there’s money to be made.
In its colonies, France was always either openly discriminatory and exploited slaves, or was on the side of ethnic cleansing, so I think the truth is probably the other way around.
> I’m crying over France’s poor governance lol As I wrote above, France was chased because of Sputnik, the Wagner channel on Telegram that was available on smartphones, and the local radio that was bought up It was a pretty organized propaganda, as shown in the documentary France arrested the founder of Telegram in order to seize the server and prove the truth.
Even if sanctions are imposed on the Malian government in the areas where Boko Haram has repeatedly committed genocide, won’t the genocide stop? Is the Tokyo Shimbun trying to say that “Boko Haram’s genocide is a clean genocide”?
When I was a kid, I wondered why refugees in worse conditions than homeless people had so many children, but I realized that even in poor conditions, as long as they have enough water and food to keep them from starving, they will have more children and multiply, even if they’re malnourished and skinny, rather than dying from excessive sex. I realized this shows the tenacity and strength of human beings as living beings. It’s because of this reproductive power that the human race is multiplying explosively on Earth.
Even in Japan, Haraguchi and others are constantly reposting Sputnik, but the world is still trying to uncover the existence of Wagner’s propaganda channels on Sputnik, Telegram, and Twitter=x. The French arrest of the founder of Telegram is inextricably linked to the destabilization of Africa and Russian subversive activities. If you see someone using Sputnik as a source, be suspicious. Incidentally, Russia fired and arrested all the liberal employees of Sputnik about 10 years ago. They may have been plotting the Crimea incident since then.
Mali is next to Syria in the Middle East, and it’s large, but it only has resources. So the poor people who don’t have jobs quickly become mercenaries and are hired by Assad, and there are a lot of warmongers. In other words, it’s a Middle Eastern country of religious wars and plundering. There are Wagner, separatism (ISIS, Al-Qaeda, etc.), Poco Haram, and various other forces, such as anti-government guerrillas, and Wagner has been the most dominant in the past few years. No matter who changes, only garbage military dictatorships come out, but the problem is that the number of neighboring countries that praise military dictatorships and Russia Wagner under the influence of Mali is increasing, and security is becoming increasingly unstable. That’s why there is talk of doing something about Mali.
>>42 >Mali is next to Syria in the Middle East and is a large country, but its only industry is resources. As expected of an American operative, he lies easily to the followers of the Unification Church. Mali is a small country in West Africa, thousands of kilometers away from Syria in the Middle East.
>>43 I wonder if it’s just a coincidence that New Caledonia and other former French colonies are in such a terrible state with riots and revolutions. I guess France’s approach was fundamentally wrong after all.
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