The United States said it was "appalled" on Monday (May 15th) by a UN report accusing the Malian army of committing abuses in March 2022 in Moura, Mali, and called on the transitional government to lift its restrictions on the UN force. "The United States is appalled by the disregard for human life shown by elements of the Malian armed forces in cooperation with the Kremlin-backed Wagner Group during an operation in Moura in March of last year," State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said in a statement.
The UN on Friday accused the Malian army and "foreign" fighters of executing at least 500 people in March 2022, during an anti-jihadist operation in Moura, in a damning report by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. The Office of the High Commissioner "has reasonable grounds to believe" that at least 500 people, including about 27 women and seven children, were "executed by the Malian Armed Forces and foreign military personnel" between 31 and 2022 March 2013 in this locality of a few thousand inhabitants. This report is based on an investigation by the Human Rights Division of the Peacekeepers Mission deployed in Mali since <> (MINUSMA).
