Mali Coup Leader Readies For Trial Over Massacre
Fakhir Rizvi Published November 11, 2016 | 04:30 PM
BAMAKO, , (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 11th Nov, 2016 ) - An army officer who led Mali's 2012 coup against then president Amadou Toumani Toure will stand trial on November 30 for murder and collusion over the massacre of soldiers who opposed the takeover.
The coup headed by Amadou Sanogo toppled what had been heralded as one of west Africa's most stable democracies and precipitated the fall of northern Mali to Al-Qaeda-linked groups until a French-led military operation forced them out of the towns.
An official communique received by AFP Friday said a Bamako court would hear "the case of Amadou Sanogo and several others accused of kidnapping, murder and collusion.
" After Sanogo and his military junta seized power in the largely desert nation in March 2012, several dozen paratroopers known as the "Red Berets" who had supported the ousted president were seized.
The regiment had mounted an unsuccessful counter-coup a month after Sanogo toppled Toure. By December 2012, almost 30 of the missing soldiers' bodies were found in ditches near Kati, a garrison town outside the capital Bamako, where Sanogo had set up his headquarters.
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