Mali: victims testify at the 4th hearing of the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission
Victims of violence from northern and central Mali gave their testimony at the fourth public hearing of the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission in Bamako, September 18, 2021. © RFI / Kaourou Magassa
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The Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission organized its fourth public hearing on Saturday, September 18.
The victims coming from all over the country, but mainly from the north and the center, the areas most affected by the conflicts, gave their testimonies on the violence they suffered.
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With our correspondent in Bamako,
Kaourou Magassa
Alhousseyni Diaby takes place on the stage of the Bamako international conference center on Saturday September 18.
At his side, a psychologist.
In front of him, five specialists invite him to speak.
In a powerful voice, he describes the day his twin brother was murdered in front of his eyes.
It was December 3, 2011, in his house in Kidal.
Today is the first time he has spoken in nearly ten years of rehashed nightmare.
Like therapy in public.
"
I freed myself from a trauma, from a suffering that I was carrying alone and I think that now people will sympathize with my pain,
" he explains.
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22,600 depositions were collected in the various regional branches of
the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission
(CVJR).
Stories of abuses, massacres, or arbitrary arrests that were not judicial but which could fall within the framework of the national policy of reparation in favor of the victims.
Repair
Including the testimony of Awa Doumbia. Originally from Gao, she lost her daughter, who died shortly after being hit by shrapnel. She campaigns for more assistance to orphans. “
Me, my little children are happy with me, because I am here. Those who don't even have parents, what will become of them afterwards? If we do not supervise them, we do not maintain them, they will take up arms,
”she worries.
According to the government's wishes, an action plan costing 65 billion CFA francs (nearly one billion euros) will support the activities of the national policy of reparation for victims of crises in Mali since 1960. whose approval decree was signed on September 10.
Victims whose number continues to increase due to the security crisis shaking the country.
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