2023-05-16 08:20:54
This work ” will concern aspects related to the taking of images by the satellites used by the United Nations Fact-Finding Commission, explains Mahamadou Konatédoctor in public law, specialist in international law and humanitarian law at the University of Bamako. So it would be for the investigation to determine whether these satellites violated Malian airspace or not. There is of course a certain height which enters into the sovereign space of the State. In practice, generally, it is 22km above the territory. Beyond that, it is normally considered international airspace. »
UN investigators were not allowed by the Malian transitional authorities to visit the village of Moura. They therefore proceeded, in particular, by collecting testimonies from victims or inhabitants of the village of Moura. Could the Malian judicial inquiry also concern these testimonies?
« Comb »
« Oui, once more replies the researcher Mahamadou Konaté, who also taught for several years at the National Army Staff School in Mali. I think they can always listen to witnesses who have collaborated with UN investigators, to verify their statements. Some question the credibility of the facts reported, so all of this must really be combed through by our own justice, to quickly give the supported and official version of the Malian government. »
But Ousmane Diallo expects absolutely nothing from this investigation. A researcher at Amnesty International’s regional office for West Africa in Dakar, he himself worked on the Moura massacre and published in recent months, with Amnesty, conclusions that match those of the UN report. For him, the announcement by Bamako of an investigation into the work of UN investigators should be read ” as part of the showdown led by the Malian authorities once morest the United Nations and in particular the Minusma. »
« Strategy of intimidation and frustration »
« This is part of a strategy of intimidation and frustration that has taken place since the first allegations in relation to Moura, asserts Ousmane Diallo. Malian authorities had obstructed access to Moura for Minusma investigators. They had also intimidated some of the survivors and nationals of Moura who were interviewed by Minusma investigators, therefore by this famous fact-finding mission. It’s politics! The Malian authorities must respond to a national audience, that is to say that the strategy of martial discourse once morest external partners, this sovereignist, populist discourse, allows them to establish a legitimacy that they do not have at the point from a democratic point of view. We will also witness the renewal of the mandate of the Minusma in a month, the objective of the authorities being to limit the human rights mandate of the Minusma and to make the mission a mission which is not in charge of the question of human rights. human rights or justice, but rather a mission in support of the political and military objectives of the Malian authorities. »
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