The Malian attitude to the MNLA.
Fousseyni Magia of Le Flambeaux writes on the Mali web site that there are a number of issues on which Mali and the international community agree. This includes military intervention to liberate northern Mali and the need to involve Algeria in the process of reconquest. This is not ,however, the case with the issue of the MNLA.
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The majority of Malians are opposed to the idea of negotiations with the MNLA but the international community, seems not to exclude this hypothesis.
Hence the need,the article says, is for the transitional government to destroy this movement permanently, '' The government must reach out to the Tuareg and other marginalized communities in the north and their leaders who are not, I stress, the Salafists or terrorists':
These words come from an interview with Assistant Secretary U.S. State for Africa Johnnie Carson, with Slate Africa. This position is shared by the UN. Algiers is focusing on negotiation instead of armed intervention. It pursues a protectionist attitude' towards the MNLA, the article asserts.
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The MNLA is now in a position of weakness. The multitudes of seduction attempts and repositioning have only
drawn ridicule internationally and strengthend the hatred of Mali . The country is alone faced with Ansar Edine,
AQIM and Mujao. The MNLA's capacity for harm has the potential to be more difficult to deal with than the terrorists of islamists the article says.
Whilst acknowldeging the efforts to liberate the north of Mali the article reflects that the main aim remainsthe neutralisation of the terrorists and fundamentalists so as to secure theSahel and achieve peace and stability in the region.
The article says that the MNLA is deceitful and is trying to chaqng its image from a protest movement seeking self determination to a marginalised minority . The article says that the MNLA is trying to persuade Iyad Ag Ghali of Ansar Dine that they could be a reliable partner. The MNLA remains a bomb to be defused and Mali must end the MNLA before it has a chance to reform itself. it reminds the reader of the Aguelhok massacre and the crimes and rapes the article says were perpetrated by the MNLA and that the movement has not reformed itself and needs to be neutralised before the process of the liberation of the north gets underway. The article claims that the MNLA has no legitamacy amongst the people it claims to represent. It says it is essential to accelerate the downward spiral of the MNLA. The choice it says is to live with Sharia and armed bandits or to face those who would divide the country, the article concludes.
An article by Reuters on 30 October confirmed that the Malian army killed eight peaceful civilians, a relative said Tuesday after the government announced its soldiers had targeted armed gunmen suspected of attacking a bus. A relative of one of those killed said the men were animal herders,not criminals.He believed the deaths stemmed from a decade-long rivalry between two families in the area and one of these families was related to a soldier in the army.In September, soldiers killed 16 unarmed Muslim preachers in the same region, who were coming from Mauritania en route to a religious conference in Mali's capital.
Hence the need,the article says, is for the transitional government to destroy this movement permanently, '' The government must reach out to the Tuareg and other marginalized communities in the north and their leaders who are not, I stress, the Salafists or terrorists':
These words come from an interview with Assistant Secretary U.S. State for Africa Johnnie Carson, with Slate Africa. This position is shared by the UN. Algiers is focusing on negotiation instead of armed intervention. It pursues a protectionist attitude' towards the MNLA, the article asserts.
.
The MNLA is now in a position of weakness. The multitudes of seduction attempts and repositioning have only
drawn ridicule internationally and strengthend the hatred of Mali . The country is alone faced with Ansar Edine,
AQIM and Mujao. The MNLA's capacity for harm has the potential to be more difficult to deal with than the terrorists of islamists the article says.
Whilst acknowldeging the efforts to liberate the north of Mali the article reflects that the main aim remainsthe neutralisation of the terrorists and fundamentalists so as to secure theSahel and achieve peace and stability in the region.
The article says that the MNLA is deceitful and is trying to chaqng its image from a protest movement seeking self determination to a marginalised minority . The article says that the MNLA is trying to persuade Iyad Ag Ghali of Ansar Dine that they could be a reliable partner. The MNLA remains a bomb to be defused and Mali must end the MNLA before it has a chance to reform itself. it reminds the reader of the Aguelhok massacre and the crimes and rapes the article says were perpetrated by the MNLA and that the movement has not reformed itself and needs to be neutralised before the process of the liberation of the north gets underway. The article claims that the MNLA has no legitamacy amongst the people it claims to represent. It says it is essential to accelerate the downward spiral of the MNLA. The choice it says is to live with Sharia and armed bandits or to face those who would divide the country, the article concludes.
An article by Reuters on 30 October confirmed that the Malian army killed eight peaceful civilians, a relative said Tuesday after the government announced its soldiers had targeted armed gunmen suspected of attacking a bus. A relative of one of those killed said the men were animal herders,not criminals.He believed the deaths stemmed from a decade-long rivalry between two families in the area and one of these families was related to a soldier in the army.In September, soldiers killed 16 unarmed Muslim preachers in the same region, who were coming from Mauritania en route to a religious conference in Mali's capital.
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