- Africa: The "terrorist" attack against the Malian Army has killed 54
Twenty people were killed last Wednesday in a new massacre perpetrated in southern Mali, in this case in the town of Peh, next to the border with Burkina Faso, although the incident was made public this Friday.
The Malian government has explained in a statement that the Armed Forces stationed in Ouenkoro that day received a request for help from Peh with the message that the town was being attacked by strangers.
Upon arrival, they found twenty bodies, several of them thrown into wells in the town, while the attackers, dressed in hunters' clothes, fled when they saw the military arrive, abandoning the stolen cattle.
The statement does not directly say it but implies that it was a jihadist aggression, as it accuses the attack on groups "that sow terror in the border band between the two countries (Mali and Burkina) and adds that their armed forces fight relentlessly to those "obscurantist forces."
However, it also slides that it can be an inter-ethnic hatred, because "it urges all parties to work for the peaceful resolution of their differences and for reconciliation."
That region of southern Mali bordering Burkina is the scene not only of jihadist violence, but also of frequent armed attacks between sedentary hunters and ranchers, which sometimes result in killings that leave dozens dead.
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