By RFIPosted 31-03-2019Modified 31-03-2019 at 12:24
The Fulani community of Paris gathered in front of the horror. A week after the massacre of at least 160 people in the village of Ogossagou in central Mali, Saturday, March 30, about 500 people demonstrated from Montparnasse station to the Embassy of Mali in Paris.
Protesters who fear that the violence is increasing and call for a strong reaction from the Malian government.
We listen to Mimo Dia, the organizer of the event.
When I see my people being slaughtered like that, I think it's really unacceptable. It's just to say to the Malian government that we are really fed up with hearing every time there are Peuls who are murdered on the left, on the right ... It's massacres in fact .. if it continues like this, it is a march towards the genocide. The Dogons and the Peuls have always existed. Even today, at the time of the massacre, there are villages of Peuls who coexist with Dogon villages and do not really care about the conflict. So, this is not a problem of Dogons. It's a political problem. The Malian army has outsourced the security of the Malians that it has given to the Dogons. That, it must stop! That's why we want a very simple thing: to dissolve all the militias that exist in Mali. Proceed, therefore, to their total disarmament, (identify) all the people who are involved in these massacres, including the militia Dana Amassagou, including, even, the Malian authorities who are accomplices, so that all these people are caught, properly judged, so that justice may be restored.We have not said that we will break things, kill people ... No! Violence is the weapon of the weak. But at some point, too, you have to know how to say stop! "
Mimo Dia, organizer of the Poule event in Paris, at Lucas Martin's microphone
31-03-2019 - By RFI
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