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UN chief says ‘complex attack’ against blue helmets in Mali may constitute war crime February 14, 2021
UN peacekeepers patrol the Menaka region in northeast Mali. courtesy MINUSMA/Harandane Dicko
NEW YORK Secretary-General António Guterres condemned on Saturday, a “complex attack” against the UN mission in the West African country of Mali
An assault on Thursday by unidentified armed elements on a temporary operating base of the UN Integrated Stabilization Mission for Mali (MINUSMA) in Kerena, near Douentza in Central Mali, resulted in the death of a Togolese peacekeeper and the wounding of 27 others.
In a statement issued by his spokesperson, Stéphane Dujarric, the UN chief emphasized that attacks against UN blue helmets “may constitute a war crime” and called on the Malian authorities to “spare no efforts in promptly holding to account the perpetrators of this heinous attack”.