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• »War forced on by the West«
  
  01/16/2023 09:27 am
  
  Aminata Dramane Traoré (Mali) on the military operations in the Sahel
  
  
  »We have to stand up together«: Aminata Traoré at #RLK23
  
  
  "The war in Mali was forced on us by the West": Aminata Dramane Traoré's verdict on the military operation led by France in the Sahel since 2013 is clear. For the human rights activist and former culture minister of Mali, the foreign forces in this conflict are not about fighting »jihadism«, as they claim, but about securing raw materials.
  
  "France is not ready to give up the resources of the African continent, including oil, uranium, gold and other strategic resources that it does not produce itself," said Traoré. This is especially true now that France is facing a drastic energy crisis as a result of sanctions against Russia.
  
  In Mali, Paris is particularly supported by Berlin, Traoré explained. The FRG has currently stationed more than a thousand soldiers in the country as part of the UN "stability mission" Minusma. Above all, Traoré criticizes the racist nature of Western military operations in Mali. As an example, she cited French President Emmanuel Macron, who said at the 2017 G7 summit in Hamburg: »The development of the African continent is a challenge to civilization because women there still have six to seven children.«
  
  However, the Malian human rights activist is not hopeless in the face of this situation. "We have a unique opportunity to further dissect the web of lies that has led to this descent into hell," she said at the end of her speech. »We have to stand up together and redesign society, Africa, the whole world!« (rsch)