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Credible, Impartial Inquiry Needed into Alleged Civilian Deaths
On January 3, 2021, two French Mirage 2000 jet fighters like this one dropped three bombs near Bounti, Central Mali. 
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The Malian and French governments should promptly and impartially investigate the French airstrike on January 3, 2021, in central Mali that killed 19 people alleged by local residents to be civilians, Human Rights Watch said today. In a January 7 statement, the French armed forces said the attack was carried out at about 3 p.m. by two Mirage 2000 fighter jets that delivered three bombs on “a group of about 40 adult men,” killing about 30 they claim were armed Islamist fighters, north of the village of Bounti. ....

Jonathan Pedneault , Human Rights Watch , Human Rights Division , Malian Defense Ministry , Human Rights , Cercle De Douentza , France Inter , Florence Parly , Medecins Sans Frontieres , Doctors Without Borders , மனிதன் உரிமைகள் வாட்ச் , மனிதன் உரிமைகள் பிரிவு , மாலியன் பாதுகாப்பு அமைச்சகம் , மனிதன் உரிமைகள் , பிரான்ஸ் இடை , மேதேசின்ஸ் சான்ஸ் எல்லைகள் , மருத்துவர்கள் இல்லாமல் எல்லைகள் ,