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(December 8, 2025 at 11:45 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Everywhere Russians metastisize, always the same.
Rape, massacres and looting.
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Quote:As Russia’s Africa Corps fights in Mali, witnesses describe atrocities from beheadings to rapes
A new Russian military unit that replaced the Wagner mercenary group is carrying out abuses including rapes and beheadings as it teams up with Mali ‘s military to hunt down extremists, dozens of civilians who fled the fighting have told The Associated Press.
The Africa Corps is using the same tactics as Wagner, the refugees said, in accounts not reported by international media until now. Two refugees showed videos of villages burned by the “white men.” Two others said they found bodies of loved ones with liver and kidneys missing, an abuse the AP previously reported around Wagner.
“It’s a scorched-earth policy,” said a Malian village chief who fled. “The soldiers speak to no one. Anyone they see, they shoot. No questions, no warning. People don’t even know why they are being killed.”
The military governments of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have turned from Western allies to Russia for help combating the fighters affiliated with al-Qaida or the Islamic State group.
When the Africa Corps replaced Wagner six months ago, weary civilians hoped for less brutality. The United Nations says they have been abused by all sides in the conflict.
But refugees described a new reign of terror by Africa Corps in the vast and largely lawless territory, and legal analysts said Moscow is directly responsible.
“They are the same men, paid by the government, and continue the massacres. There is no difference between Wagner and Africa Corps,” said the village chief.
Malian authorities have never publicly acknowledged the presence of Wagner or Africa Corps. But Russian state media in recent weeks have published reports from Mali, praising Africa Corps for defending the country from “terrorists,” and Russia’s Foreign Ministry has confirmed that the unit is active “at the request of the Malian authorities,” providing ground escorts, search-and-rescue operations and other work.
A Nobel Prize–winning physicist says Elon Musk and Bill Gates are right about the future: we’ll have far more free time: but we may no longer have jobs
(December 9, 2025 at 3:26 pm)Paraselene Wrote: A Nobel Prize–winning physicist says Elon Musk and Bill Gates are right about the future: we’ll have far more free time: but we may no longer have jobs
Quote:WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the United States has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela amid mounting tensions with the government of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
It’s the Trump administration’s latest push to increase pressure on Maduro, who has been charged with narcoterrorism in the United States.
“We’ve just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela, a large tanker, very large, largest one ever seized, actually,” Trump told reporters at the White House.
Trump said “other things are happening,” but did not offer additional details, saying he would speak more about it later.
The seizure was carried led by the U.S Coast Guard led effort and supported by the Navy, according to a U.S. official was not authorized to comment publicly and spoke on the condition of anonymity.
(December 10, 2025 at 4:35 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:
Quote:WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the United States has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela amid mounting tensions with the government of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
It’s the Trump administration’s latest push to increase pressure on Maduro, who has been charged with narcoterrorism in the United States.
“We’ve just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela, a large tanker, very large, largest one ever seized, actually,” Trump told reporters at the White House.
Trump said “other things are happening,” but did not offer additional details, saying he would speak more about it later.
The seizure was carried led by the U.S Coast Guard led effort and supported by the Navy, according to a U.S. official was not authorized to comment publicly and spoke on the condition of anonymity.
I wonder if the uproar over the war crimes resulted in capture instead of sinking. Or perhaps the tanker was flying a third-party flag?
Trump seems set on provoking an all-out war with the country that has the world’s largest proven oil reserves. Does anyone still think this is about drugs?
Boru
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