In the Timbuktu region of northern Mali, the International Criminal Court (ICC) Trust Fund for Victims has since 2021 been compensating victims of the destruction of the city's holy shrines during the occupation by Jihadists in 2012. While people appreciate the principle of reparations, many feel frustrated by the amount allocated and the methodology.
Why?
Several victims were still searching for answers after this hearing. The TJRC offers them only a framework to express their suffering. Unlike the courts, it does not seek to establish the guilt of alleged perpetrators. Nor does it confront victims and perpetrators, as has been the case with other truth commissions. The question why? has come up very often. Mariam Cissé, 46, asked why her father was killed by the Malian army at Léré in northern Mali. Young Aboubakar Saddek Ould Mohamed, 19, asked the same question. He said his father and uncle were killed by Malian armed forces in 2013 in the city of Timbuktu. I want to know why, I want my father to be brought back to me, or else the State to take care of his family, said the man who had to abandon his studies to take care of his mother and siblings. The message has been heard, replied the president of the Commission.
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