{"id":1873,"date":"2026-09-29T15:03:47","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T10:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=1873"},"modified":"2026-09-29T15:03:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T10:03:47","slug":"soldiers-and-mercenaries-killed-at-least-34-civilians-in-mali-amnesty-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=1873","title":{"rendered":"Soldiers and mercenaries killed at least 34 civilians in Mali, Amnesty report says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>At least 34 civilians were killed in seven incidents during military joint operations in Mali by the army and Russia\u2019s \u200bWagner mercenary group between June 2023 and December 2025, Amnesty \u200cInternational said in a report on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The human rights organisation documented the deaths of 34 people, who it said were not participating in hostilities, in incidents \u200bacross Mali\u2019s Segou, Mopti and Timbuktu regions along the Mauritanian \u200bborder.<\/p>\n<p>It said the victims were mostly members of pastoralist \u2060communities who were attacked based on their ethnicity and their presence \u200bin areas where jihadist groups were active.<\/p>\n<p>Mali\u2019s military-led government, which took power \u200bafter coups in 2020 and 2021, has denied killing civilians in its fight against jihadists. It did not immediately respond to a request for comment, nor \u200bdid Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese murders were deliberate: the victims were shot, had their \u200bthroats cut, or were burned alive,\u201d Amnesty\u2019s report said, adding that acts described in \u200cthe \u2060report amounted to war crimes.<\/p>\n<p>Those interviewed for the report told Amnesty they were tortured mostly by Wagner members during patrols or during their detention at military bases. Others described civilians being hit in drone \u200bstrikes and the \u200bdestruction of civilian \u2060property.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn their minds, all herders are terrorists, and as a result they do not hesitate to burn \u200bpeople and property,\u201d a herder who has taken refuge \u200bin Mauritania \u2060told Amnesty.<\/p>\n<p>The Wagner mercenary group left Mali in 2025. But the Africa Corps, which is made up of many former Wagner fighters, still \u2060operates there.<\/p>\n<p>Amnesty \u200bsaid it shared the report\u2019s findings \u200bwith the Malian authorities on August 3 but did not receive a response at the \u200btime of publication.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 34 civilians were killed in seven incidents during military joint operations in Mali by the army and Russia\u2019s \u200bWagner mercenary group between June 2023 and December 2025, Amnesty \u200cInternational said in a report on Tuesday. The human rights organisation documented the deaths of 34 people, who it said were not participating in hostilities, in incidents \u200bacross Mali\u2019s Segou, Mopti and Timbuktu regions along the Mauritanian \u200bborder. It said the victims were mostly members of pastoralist \u2060communities who were attacked based on their ethnicity and their presence \u200bin areas&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}