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ICC tries Mali islamist militant over Timbuktu takeover and destruction of shrines in 2012

FRANCE24, 14 Jul 2020
The trial of a Malian islamist accused of being central to the persecution of residents in the city of Timbuktu and also accused of the destruction of the city’s holy shrines has started at the International Criminal Court at The Hague, on Tuesday. Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz Ag Mohamed Ag Mahmoud belonged to the Ansar Dine group which seized parts of Northern Mali together with Tuareg separatists in 2012 to try impose the Islamic Law, as FRANCE 24’s The Hague correspondent Stéphanie Van Den Berg reports.

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