Human rights defense groups say politicians have disappeared in recent days
Mili Military Government Distributed all political parties after accusations of rights for the defense of rights that opposition figures have been arrested.
Assimi Goita, who seized the power in two army strokes in 2020 and 2021, validated the decision after being broadcast to the Malians in a television statement on Tuesday.
The parties were dissolved after demonstrations this month, demanding that the country be returned to democratic domination.
The demonstrators gathered on May 3 and 4Carrying placards with slogans by reading “Down With Dictators, Long Live Democracy”, in a rare public reprimand of the military government, which had promised to hold elections in 2022.
A national conference held in April recommended extending the presidency of Goita until 2030, drawing the condemnation of opposition personalities and human rights groups.
In response to another demonstration scheduled for Friday, the military government has published a decree suspending all political activities across the country.
This decision forced the opposition groups to cancel the demonstration, and the government has now tightened its grip.
The repression coincided with relationships of disappearance of opposition figures. Human rights groups have declared that several politicians have disappeared in recent days.
THURSDAY, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Abba Alhassane, the secretary general of the convergence for the development of Mali (Codem), was “arrested” by “masked armed men”.
On the same day, El Bachir Thiam, the party leader Yelema, would have been seized by unidentified men in Kati, a city outside the capital.
On Tuesday, a member of the Codem who was expressed under the cover of anonymity told the reuters news agency that the party had lost contact with Abdoul Karim Traore, a leader of youth, and feared that he was also kidnapped.
The Malian authorities did not comment on the arrests reported.
Goita took power for the first time in August 2020 amidst attacks on the climbing of armed groups affiliated with ISIL (ISIS) and the regional affiliate of Al-Qaeda, Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam Wal-Muslimin (Jnim).
In July 2020, Protests against the former civil government were violently repressed with at least 14 people killed during a repression by the security forces.
The soldiers then ousted the elected government, citing its inability to tackle armed groups.
In December of last year, HRW reported That the Malian soldiers alongside Russian Wagner group fighters “have deliberately killed” at least 32 civilians and burned more than 100 houses in the center and northern Mali.