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In a single day, buildings were reduced to ashes, motorcycles were destroyed and people were killed and buried in the town of Nia Ouro, located in central Mali. Our team established what happened in this village on January 4, 2022, using videos that we verified, satellite images and an eyewitness account from our Observer. He says that the Malian army was responsible for the death and destruction.
The first report of this attack came in the form of a video posted on Twitter by a user with the handle @kaartanke on January 9. It shows a destroyed granary, next to the burnt hull of a cart. The caption reads, “The face of Nia-Ouro after FAMa [The Malian Armed Forces] passes through”. Our team contacted this social media user, who said that he hadn’t taken the video himself. He said that he first saw it on a WhatsApp group. After our exchange, he sent us two more videos showing two bodies being unearthed.
Le visage de Nia-Ouro après le passage des #famas. Il est plus que temps que nos soldats changent de tactique. On ne peut pas prétendre combattre le terrorisme en utilisant ses méthodes de terreur et de terre brûlée. Hommes, greniers, chariots, animaux rien à été épargné. #Mopti pic.twitter.com/WhGECbPz65
— YATTASSAYE (@kaartanke) January 9, 2022
Vidéo publiée le 9 janvier 2022 par le compte Twitter @kaartanke
Another social media user then shared additional videos with our team explaining that they showed Nia Ouro after the attack. The nine videos he sent us showed charred motorcycles and carts as well as granaries burnt to the ground. The footage also shows locals digging up two freshly buried…
Source : france24
