Reuters yesterday has published the following:
BAMAKO (Reuters) - The leader of a military coup that plunged Mali into
chaos two years ago and allowed Islamists to seize its desert north has
started a hunger strike to protest against the conditions of his detention, legal
and military sources said on Thursday.
General Amadou Sanogo was arrested and charged with complicity in kidnapping last November with regard to the disappearance during the 2012 coup of dozens of paratroopers loyal to toppled President Amadou Toumani Toure.
Authorities have discovered 30 bodies, some of them in military uniforms, in mass graves near the headquarters of the coup leaders at the military barracks in the town of Kati, just outside the capital Bamako.
Sanogo is protesting over his transfer to the lakeside town of Selingue, 150
km (90 miles) south of Bamako. His lawyer said this had left him cut off from his family and legal advisers, deprived him of medical care and placed him in danger.
"He is going to observe a hunger strike and also to abstain from medical treatment," Harouna Toure told Reuters. A military source close to the general confirmed that he had begun a hunger strike on Wednesday.
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He started off as a Captain, is now a General, has ruined his country and interrupted a long democratic streak, and is still going on a hunger strike!!!!
I say modestly, GOOD RiDANCE....
General Amadou Sanogo was arrested and charged with complicity in kidnapping last November with regard to the disappearance during the 2012 coup of dozens of paratroopers loyal to toppled President Amadou Toumani Toure.
Authorities have discovered 30 bodies, some of them in military uniforms, in mass graves near the headquarters of the coup leaders at the military barracks in the town of Kati, just outside the capital Bamako.
Sanogo is protesting over his transfer to the lakeside town of Selingue, 150
km (90 miles) south of Bamako. His lawyer said this had left him cut off from his family and legal advisers, deprived him of medical care and placed him in danger.
"He is going to observe a hunger strike and also to abstain from medical treatment," Harouna Toure told Reuters. A military source close to the general confirmed that he had begun a hunger strike on Wednesday.
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He started off as a Captain, is now a General, has ruined his country and interrupted a long democratic streak, and is still going on a hunger strike!!!!
I say modestly, GOOD RiDANCE....
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