Mali’s Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission organized its second public hearing in one year on Saturday 5 December at the Bamako International Conference Center. For a full day, survivors of massacres, murders, torture and inhuman treatment were interviewed.
Full of life, Aicha Wallet Albessaty navigates between the two waiting rooms reserved for the victims. During the first years of independence, in 1963, a Tuareg uprising broke out in the Kidal region. An uprising from the Malian army.
Aicha, 9 years old, tells with her penetrating gaze that she has lost family members there. and condemns the mergers of the times: “The soldiers, they do not make the difference between the men on the ground and the people, and that is what is serious, we are killing innocent people.”
Live decently
Eleven other survivors of atrocities will follow each other on stage at the Bamako Conference Center. These victims simply want a decent and secure life. This is the case with Abdoulaye Barry in tears during her story. His wife and three of these children were killed in the massacre in the village of Ogossagou in Fulani on March 23, 2019
“Here I am today, I have no more property, my relatives are dead, I have no field. I have no job, all I am looking for is help in the name of God so that I can support the children I have left. ”
How about opening a legal document? Mali’s Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission has no mandate to do so. Which raises the question of possible repairs. At the beginning of December, 18,722 testimonies were collected throughout the territory.
