Geneva [Switzerland],February 1: Independent UN human rights experts have called for an investigation into the activities of the Russian mercenary group Wagner and government troops in Mali.
There are suspicions that they have committed human rights violations and crimes against humanity since 2021, more than a dozen independent experts advising the UN Human Rights Council said in Geneva on Tuesday. They said they had received alarming reports of executions, torture, rape and other atrocities.
"We are particularly worried by credible reports that over the course of several days in late March 2022, Malian armed forces accompanied by military personnel believed to belong to the Wagner Group executed several hundred people, who had been rounded up in Moura, a village in central Mali," the UN experts said. They were concerned that military tasks appeared to have been increasingly assigned to the mercenary force, which only fuels the violence. (dpa)
Source: Qatar Tribune
