A Confidential Brief to the ICC Accuses Russia-Linked Wagner of Promoting Atrocities in West Africa
- A confidential report submitted to the ICC alleges that the Russia-linked Wagner Group disseminated videos depicting alleged atrocities in northern and central Mali over the period spanning late 2021 to mid-2024.
- The allegations come as the security situation deteriorates following the Malian government’s decision to request the departure of the U.N. peacekeepers in late 2023.
- The videos, reposted on Wagner-affiliated Telegram channels, show men in military uniform mutilating alleged civilian corpses and include statements alluding to cannibalism.
- Mali’s military initiated a probe regarding the viral videos, while the ICC monitors reports of extensive abuses such as extrajudicial killings, torture, mutilation, and cannibalism.
- The brief’s allegations highlight ongoing dehumanization and escalating violence in the Sahel, where about 8,000 terrorism victims died last year as governments partner with Russian mercenaries.
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Authors of massacres that document their own war crimes, providing evidence and details. Something that happens not only in Gaza, but also in the Sahel. Let's talk about the Wagner Brigade, the company of Russian mercenaries founded by Yevgeny Prigozhin that continues to operate in Africa. The warning at the beginning of the investigation that the French magazine Jeune Afrique released yesterday is clear: the article contains images and descript…
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ICC Urged to Investigate Wagner's Promotion of Atrocities in Africa – AP
A confidential legal report accusing the Wagner mercenary group of committing war crimes by sharing footage of apparent atrocities in Africa has been submitted to the International Criminal Court (ICC), the Associated Press reported Monday. The report, which describes instances of torture, mutilation, extrajudicial killings and cannibalism allegedly perpetrated by the group, calls on the ICC to investigate the actions of Wagner-linked individua…
ICC urged to probe Russia's Wagner over West Africa atrocities push
Legal experts from UC Berkeley have argued to the International Criminal Court that the Wagner Group's alleged complicity in atrocities and its apparent weaponisation of social media could constitute war crimes.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has received a request for a report describing war crimes ...
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