Original source on Twitter @Apmazawad
Seems genuine, I’ll let the experts decide.
Translation (mostly French, I could use help on the arabic parts)
Azawad fighter behind the camera : Your name ?
Malian fighter : Ibrahim
A : Ibrahim what ?
M : Sidi Mehdi
A : Which position ?
M : Chief sergeant
A : What is your mission here ?
M : What ?
A : Your mission here, what is it ?
M : […] It is a patrol mission only, that is what we were told
A : It is not true. Who gave the command to kill civilians ? Why are you killing the civilians and shepperds
M : It was the Wagner
A : Are those really from the Wagner ?
M : Even in the village where the elders were killed it was the Wagner
A : Bei barra ?
M : No, its not bei barra another one.
A: Who gave the order ?
M : The wagner took the elders and slashed their throats. We did not know.
A : When you got out (for patrol) how many vehicles were you ?
M : 21. […] All the vehicles are there
A : [Speaking arabic, bullets cracks maybe ammo exploding] Why do you kill the civilians ? The elders, the children
M : Its Wagner. We try to protect the civilians
A : How many Wagners ?
M : They are too many
A : They are all laying dead here. We killed them all.
M : Yes that is why we came to [not understandable]
A : How many FAMA (Malian soldiers) fighters here ?
M : 12. All the rest is Wagner
A : How many reinforcments did you call ?
M : None
A : Who is your leader ?
M : [turning is head] he is up there
A : Yeah, he ded. Which rank ?
M : Lieutenant
A : Good [Speaking arabic]
Source: HeclerUndCock
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This is the face of a dead man. No way these guys let him live considering that some sort of civilian massacre happened. He seems very calm, probably hoping to ask for a quick end.
He’s dead by the time we read this.
So Wagner was killing civilians there as well..? What a surprise..
Ironically: the language of the former colonial power functions as a lingua franca…
Both sides are evil and deserves the himar treatment
Interesting times when one (for now, temporarily) cheer for the islamist.
Tell them eveything you know and hope you did good enough to get a bullet and not the blade.
ok basically in french he says he s patrolling with wagner , he s from regular somalian army , the jyahdist ask him why he kill innocent civil , women children and ild people in some village, he says that wagner kill all the civil people .
The bullet whizzed through the air, but nobody reacted.