Some reports suggest that as many as 300 to 500 villagers were massacred in the village of Mourrah by Malian and Russian forces
The siege began a week ago, when the village of Mourrah was surrounded by a combined force of soldiers from the Malian army and the Russian mercenary company Wagner Group.
The Wagner forces, while officially private, are a key element in Moscow’s global strategy. Thousands of Wagner troops have been deployed around the world, including in Syria, Libya, Sudan, Mozambique and Central African Republic, and Wagner troops were recently reported to have arrived in Ukraine to support the Russian invasion.
Failure to investigate the deaths will “drive communities into the hands of violent extremist groups and create conditions for more violence,” Mr. Price said. Human-rights groups and independent analysts have confirmed that Islamist militants were in the village when the siege began, and some fighting occurred. But over a period of several days, most of the victims of extrajudicial killings were unarmed people, according to Corinne Dufka, the West Africa director of Human Rights Watch, who spoke to The Globe and Mail on the weekend.
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