Mali parliament calls for army intervention in north
- Published: 5 Jul 2012 at 10.48
- Online news: World
Mali's national assembly called for army intervention in the north where Islamists have enforced strict sharia law, destroyed ancient shrines and trapped residents with landmines.
A still from a video shows a young boy with a kalashnikov standing next to an Islamist militant in Timbuktu on July 1. Mali's national assembly called for army intervention in the north where Islamists have enforced strict sharia law, destroyed ancient shrines and trapped residents with landmines.
In a statement calling for "restoration of territorial integrity," the parliament "calls on the entire Malian people for implacable resistance to the occupation and boosting solidarity by all possible means."
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