Coup in Mali [Ongoing!]

[Agha Sher]

The free people of Mali is backing their military in kicking out the french colonialists.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1295745020276899841

 

[American Pakistani]

It's funny, the French have a cold heart towards Muslims and don't want any identification of Muslims in France, but they are heavily involved in destabilizing and occupying Muslim world. From Mali to Libya to Syria to Iraq to Afghanistan to supporting bharti occupier terrorists in Indian Illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir.

 

[masterchief_mirza]

It's funny, the French have a cold heart towards Muslims and don't want any identification of Muslims in France, but they are heavily involved in destabilizing and occupying Muslim world. From Mali to Libya to Syria to Iraq to Afghanistan to supporting bharti occupier terrorists in Indian Illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir.

Don't forget Lebanon, which is a mini-gay-Paris obsession for francophiles. France will never do the decent thing and just walk away from Beirut.

 

[Kailash Kumar]

Mali’s president and prime minister held by mutinous troops

BABA AHMED and KRISTA LARSON

14 minutes ago

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Mutinous soldiers detained Mali’s president and prime minister Tuesday after surrounding a residence and firing into the air in an apparent coup attempt after several months of demonstrations calling for President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita’s ouster.

The soldiers moved freely through the streets of Bamako, making it increasingly clear that they were in control of the capital city. There was no immediate comment from the soldiers, who hail from the very same military barracks in Kati where an earlier coup originated more than eight years ago.

A regional official, who spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to speak to journalists, confirmed that the president and prime minister had been detained Tuesday evening.

The dramatic escalation capped off a day of political chaos in Mali, where the U.N. and former colonizer France have spent more than seven years trying to stabilize the country since the 2012 coup allowed an Islamic insurgency to take hold in the West African nation.

The unrest had kicked off in the garrison town of Kati, where mutinous soldiers took weapons from the armory at the barracks, and then detained senior military officers. Anti-government protesters cheered the soldiers’ actions, some even setting fire to a building that belongs to Mali’s justice minister in the capital.

Prime Minister Boubou Cisse, had urged the soldiers to put down their arms.

“There is no problem whose solution cannot be found through dialogue,” he said in a communique.

Earlier in the day, government workers fled their offices as armed men began detaining officials including the country’s finance minister Abdoulaye Daffe.

It was a dramatic change of fate for Keita, who has tried to meet the protesters’ demands through a series of concessions since the demonstrations began in June. Keita, who has broad support from former colonizer France and other Western allies, first came to power in 2013 when he won more than 77 percent of the vote in a democratic election.

Tuesday’s developments were immediately condemned by the regional bloc known as ECOWAS that had been mediating Mali’s political crisis. France and the United States also strongly criticized the moves.

“The U.S. is opposed to all unconstitutional changes of government whether in the streets or by security forces,” tweeted J. Peter Pham, the State Department’s special envoy for the Sahel region.

It was a troubling repeat of the events leading up to the 2012 coup, which ultimately unleashed years of chaos in Mali when the ensuing power vacuum allowed Islamic extremists to seize control of northern towns. Ultimately a French-led military operation ousted the jihadists but they merely regrouped and then expanded their reach during Keita’s presidency into central Mali.

On March 21, 2012, a similar mutiny erupted at the Kati military camp as rank-and-file soldiers began rioting and then broke into the camp’s armory. After grabbing weapons they later headed for the seat of government, led by then Capt. Amadou Haya Sanogo.

Sanogo was later forced to hand over power to a civilian transitional government that then organized the election Keita won.

The current president has faced growing criticism of how his government has handled the relentless Islamic insurgency engulfing the country once praised as a model of democracy in the region. The military faced a wave of particularly deadly attacks in the north last year, prompting the government to close its most vulnerable outposts as part of a reorganization aimed at stemming the losses.

Regional mediators have urged Keita to share power in a unity government but those overtures were swiftly rejected by opposition leaders who said they would not stop short of Keita’s ouster.

https://www.apnews.com/54737684e3e2a84f9b44656de7343e56

 

[PakFactor]

Don't forget Lebanon, which is a mini-gay-Paris obsession for francophiles. France will never do the decent thing and just walk away from Beirut.

Lol, so true, acting more Euro than the Euro's themselves. They've lost all self-respect.

 

[merzifonlu]

“The U.S. is opposed to all unconstitutional changes of government whether in the streets or by security forces"

Really?

 

[PakFactor]

“The U.S. is opposed to all unconstitutional changes of government whether in the streets or by security forces"

Really?

My mouth is just left open reading that statement, so devoid of realty of what U.S. has been doing past and present. I'm just dumb founded reading this.

 

[Pan-Islamic-Pakistan]

We stand with our brothers and sisters in Mali. Vive la révolution

 

[Shehr Abbasi]

It's funny, the French have a cold heart towards Muslims and don't want any identification of Muslims in France, but they are heavily involved in destabilizing and occupying Muslim world. From Mali to Libya to Syria to Iraq to Afghanistan to supporting bharti occupier terrorists in Indian Illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir.

I am going to expose these Fr*nch soon. Stay ready for a thread in the next month or two.

 

[PakFactor]

I am going to expose these Fr*nch soon. Stay ready for a thread in the next month or two.

copy me as well. And what sort of info?

 

[Shehr Abbasi]

copy me as well. And what sort of info?

Focusing on some domestic issues.

 

[dBSPL]

We stand with our brothers and sisters in Mali. Vive la révolution

Some vital infos about ongoing coup attempt given by Mali citizen who studied in Turkey before

https://twitter.com/x/status/1295763464317804549

1- Some are claim that these events driven by pro-Turkish cliques and also has anti-french bias. So they claim that this is pro-Turkey coup. I must say that they misinterpreted the event, unless they are deliberately spreading false information.

2- First of all, I must express that the coup has not been absolutely successful yet. Unfortunately, conflicts do exist, because of the army does not act as a whole. In other words, it would be more accurate to say that its a coup attempt.

3- As for the profile of the coup plotters, the reasons for the intervention, and the aims, the alleged leaders (Diaw, Dembélé, Lalenta) were not well known to the public before the events.

4- Since they do not have an official statement yet (probably because they haven't capture Radio and Television yet), it would not be wrong to attribute it to months of anti-government protests and the resulting crisis, as we do not know the cause and (official) purpose of the intervention.

5- As for the reasons for these protests, the security (continuous terrorist attacks, ethnic conflicts ...), economic, education (schools were closed for 6 months, not bcs of the corona), and many problems in the country since 2012***, and the loss of the public belief that the government can solve these problems.

***(The current government came to power with a pro-french military coup in 2012.)

6- The country is so insecure that there have been attacks on ministers in the heart of the capital, the opposition leader was taken hostage during the campaigns, and is still in the hands of terrorist organizations. As if all this was not enough, the intervention in the election results by the judiciary was a straw.

7- There have always been anti-French rhetoric and banners in these protests, but it is wrong in my opinion to reduce the issue to this. The main demands of the protests are the problems I mentioned above.

8- It is understandable that the coup attempt was in the environment of protests with an anti-France tendency and that the coup plotters were anti-France since France supported the current government. But it is not possible to understand what is claimed on the basis that they are pro-Turkey.

9- Because the Malian army does not have any pro-Turkey clique. Mali-Turkey relations are not at that level again. In addition, current government's Turkey relations is not bad, but rather very good.

10- The allegations about the pro/anti of the coup plotters are not true. Moreover, to reduce the incident to this is just to ignore struggle of the Malian people for months and even years.

11- Note: I am writing these not because I want the putschists to be one way or another, but to inform people about my country correctly. Otherwise, I am completely against the coup, whomever it comes from, but the incompetence and stubbornness of the government brought us to this point.

12- Unfortunately, even those who were against the coup in principle came to the point where they applaud the coup plotters.

 

[Pan-Islamic-Pakistan]

Some vital infos about ongoing coup attempt given by Mali citizen who studied in Turkey before

https://twitter.com/x/status/1295763464317804549

1- Some are claim that these events driven by pro-Turkish cliques and also has anti-french bias. So they claim that this is pro-Turkey coup. I must say that they misinterpreted the event, unless they are deliberately spreading false information.

2- First of all, I must express that the coup has not been absolutely successful yet. Unfortunately, conflicts do exist, because of the army does not act as a whole. In other words, it would be more accurate to say that its a coup attempt.

3- As for the profile of the coup plotters, the reasons for the intervention, and the aims, the alleged leaders (Diaw, Dembélé, Lalenta) were not well known to the public before the events.

4- Since they do not have an official statement yet (probably because they haven't capture Radio and Television yet), it would not be wrong to attribute it to months of anti-government protests and the resulting crisis, as we do not know the cause and (official) purpose of the intervention.

5- As for the reasons for these protests, the security (continuous terrorist attacks, ethnic conflicts ...), economic, education (schools were closed for 6 months, not bcs of the corona), and many problems in the country since 2012***, and the loss of the public belief that the government can solve these problems.

***(The current government came to power with a pro-french military coup in 2012.)

6- The country is so insecure that there have been attacks on ministers in the heart of the capital, the opposition leader was taken hostage during the campaigns, and is still in the hands of terrorist organizations. As if all this was not enough, the intervention in the election results by the judiciary was a straw.

7- There have always been anti-French rhetoric and banners in these protests, but it is wrong in my opinion to reduce the issue to this. The main demands of the protests are the problems I mentioned above.

8- It is understandable that the coup attempt was in the environment of protests with an anti-France tendency and that the coup plotters were anti-France since France supported the current government. But it is not possible to understand what is claimed on the basis that they are pro-Turkey.

9- Because the Malian army does not have any pro-Turkey clique. Mali-Turkey relations are not at that level again. In addition, current government's Turkey relations is not bad, but rather very good.

10- The allegations about the pro/anti of the coup plotters are not true. Moreover, to reduce the incident to this is just to ignore struggle of the Malian people for months and even years.

11- Note: I am writing these not because I want the putschists to be one way or another, but to inform people about my country correctly. Otherwise, I am completely against the coup, whomever it comes from, but the incompetence and stubbornness of the government brought us to this point.

12- Unfortunately, even those who were against the coup in principle came to the point where they applaud the coup plotters.

Mali is a deeply religious and proud Islamic country in West Africa. They have the heritage of Timbuktu, and the empire of Mansa Musa (one of the richest kings of the world.)

They were only going to entertain French for a short time. We might get a genuine unity government in Mali now, that also can represent interests of Tuareg.

 

[Kailash Kumar]

Colonel Assimi Goita put in charge of rebel committee in Mali

19 AUG

PRETORIA

Colonel Assimi Goita has headed the so-called National Committee for the Salvation of the People created by rebels in Mali, EFE news agency reports Wednesday.

Goita was one of the five military servicemen who delivered a speech on national television Wednesday morning to shed light on the military rebels’ program. Goita served in the special ops unit of the Malian armed forces.

In the morning of August 18, a coup took place at a military base near Mali’s capital of Bamako. The military captured the General Staff, arrested the leadership of the country, including President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, and formed the so-called National Committee for the Salvation of the People. Keita announced his resignation as well as dissolution of parliament and dismissal of government under pressure. On August 19, the UN Security Council will hold an urgent meeting on the situation in Mali.

The coup comes amid a long-standing political, economic and social crisis in the country.

https://tass.com/world/1191669

 

[Vergennes]

Some people are trying to portray this coup as simply and purely against French interests and presence in Mali when the causes of the protests (many legitimate) are much deeper than this.

Some people who thought the French will leave Mali might be disappointed.

France says its military operation Barkhane will continue in Mali

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...-barkhane-will-continue-in-mali-idUSKBN25G0YN

https://twitter.com/x/status/1296509877318234112