US EditionA Confidential Brief to the ICC Accuses Russia-Linked Wagner of Promoting Atrocities in West Africa
- A confidential report submitted to the ICC alleges that the Russia-linked Wagner Group disseminated videos depicting alleged atrocities in northern and central Mali over the period spanning late 2021 to mid-2024.
- The allegations come as the security situation deteriorates following the Malian government’s decision to request the departure of the U.N. peacekeepers in late 2023.
- The videos, reposted on Wagner-affiliated Telegram channels, show men in military uniform mutilating alleged civilian corpses and include statements alluding to cannibalism.
- Mali’s military initiated a probe regarding the viral videos, while the ICC monitors reports of extensive abuses such as extrajudicial killings, torture, mutilation, and cannibalism.
- The brief’s allegations highlight ongoing dehumanization and escalating violence in the Sahel, where about 8,000 terrorism victims died last year as governments partner with Russian mercenaries.
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ICC Urged to Investigate Wagner's Promotion of Atrocities in Africa – AP
A confidential legal report accusing the Wagner mercenary group of committing war crimes by sharing footage of apparent atrocities in Africa has been submitted to the International Criminal Court (ICC), the Associated Press reported Monday. The report, which describes instances of torture, mutilation, extrajudicial killings and cannibalism allegedly perpetrated by the group, calls on the ICC to investigate the actions of Wagner-linked individua…
ICC urged to probe Russia's Wagner over West Africa atrocities push
Legal experts from UC Berkeley have argued to the International Criminal Court that the Wagner Group's alleged complicity in atrocities and its apparent weaponisation of social media could constitute war crimes.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has received a request for a report describing war crimes ...
Wagner Group faces war crime accusations over posting atrocities on social media
The International Criminal Court is reviewing confidential legal reports accusing the Russia-linked mercenary network of committing war crimes in West Africa—not just through brutal acts, but by sharing graphic images of those acts on social media, especially in Mali.
Journalists from the Associated Press have been able to consult the document which accuses alleged mercenaries of the Russian paramilitary group of sharing on the Telegram network videos of abuses against civilians in different countries of the Sahel. Written by experts from the American University of Berkeley, the report considers that the sharing of these films, whose content is likely to violate human rights, is a "use of social networks as a…
A confidential brief to the ICC accuses Russia-linked Wagner of
DAKAR: The International Criminal Court has been asked to review a confidential legal report asserting that the Russia-linked Wagner Group has committed war crimes by spreading images of apparent atrocities in West Africa on social media, including ones alluding to cannibalism, according to the brief seen exclusively by The Associated Press. In the videos, men in military
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