“France has a systematic problem in admitting and identifying casualties as a result of its military actions,” says the author of a new report on French military action in Mali
The area around the village of Bounti in central Mali in an image taken by the fact-finding mission of the UN peacekeeping force in Mali, January 2021. released on Monday by the London-based international law firm Stoke White documents that French airstrikes bombed a wedding, resulting in the killing of at least 19 civilians, in a village in central Mali last January.
The French state said it had conducted an intelligence and surveillance mission in the region with its Reaper drone “for one hour” and followed a motorcycle carrying two individuals who joined “40 adult men in an isolated area”. That gave the impression to the French forces that they were members of the armed group.
The report tracked down a mobile phone video showing the four injured civilians talking about the attack in the Bounti village. The video which the report says, was authenticated by local sources and language analytics, was taken in a medical facility in Douentza, a few kilometres from the targeted village.
Delina Goxho, an associate fellow at Egmont Institute in Brussels says, the use of drones is much more attractive for politicians because it is not costly for troops and is perceived as more distant by the public at home “I don’t think it [operation] was all conducted in Mali, they used a Reaper drone. There’s a satellite connection to a facility in Europe and a US collaboration in the region. The analytical enterprise the US has might have been involved,” Cian Westmoreland, a former US drone technician who worked for the US drone program said in the report.
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