On 22 August 2016, Ahmad Al Faqi Al Mahdi entered a guilty plea before the Trial Chamber for destruction of cultural monuments in the UNESCO world heritage site in Timbuktu, Mali. See id. I saw three of my students, in the back of a pick-up truck. "There was no trade between the village and the desert, and the jihadists were offering 150,000 CFA ($260, £200) every month to anyone who became a soldier. Ein direkter Nachkomme von Ahmad, Sadiq al-Mahdi, hat eine Politik demokratisieren Premierminister des Sudan (1966-1967 und 1986-1989) und verfolgt zweimal gewesen. Every resident can tell stories of violence experienced or witnessed: From Hady, a student, whipped for talking to her boyfriend in the street, to Abdullah, a tour guide, who lived behind a bank in the centre of town, which was turned into a correctional facility. Vandalism of such sites “has far more detrimental consequences for our knowledge and understanding of the past” than even the looting or destruction of a museum might, because generally “[archaeological] sites, the objects, and their associated contexts have never been recorded.”Because the ICC “is very much a court of opportunity” due to its limited jurisdictional power and investigatory resources, Many took other paths, travelling to more secluded parts of the desert, or joined the 350,000 people displaced by the conflict, gathering in refugee camps across the region. Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi is suspected of war crimes over the destruction of nine mausoleums and a mosque in the ancient Malian city in 2012. 8(2)(e)(iv) of the Rome Statute, in response to Mr. Al Mahdi’s intentionally directing of attacks against ten of the most important cultural heritage sites in Timbuktu, Mali, in June and July 2012. The ICC Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) alleges that Ahmad Al Faqi Al Mahdi was the head of the Hisbah (a morality brigade under the Ansar Dine and Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM)) and a member of Ansar Dine. As Sidi Maiga, a local resident, explains: "We are proud that Timbuktu was founded by Muslims. Some, like Mr al-Mahdi, aligned themselves with the jihadists.Traditional affiliations tend to guide local responses to the trial.
Ahmad Al Faqi Al Mahdi. Im Prozess hatte er die Tat gestanden. Filed during the Trial phase. Download. They were wearing jihadist uniforms and carrying guns. Ahmad versuchte, Gefühle von Stamm Überlegenheit zu entmutigen, Tribalismus mit einer gemeinsamen muslimischen Identität zu ersetzen, die Stammes-Barrieren überschritten.
The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.As head of jihadist group Ansar Dine's moral "accountability" enforcers, known as the the Hisbah, Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi led the destruction of key shrines in 2012. VideoGrowing up in the world's largest refugee camp.
M. Cherif Bassiouni et al., The Chautauqua Blueprint for a Statute for a Syrian Extraordinary Tribunal to Prosecute Atrocity Crimes Ahmad Al Faqi Al Mahdi. Al-Mahdi pleaded guilty in the International Criminal Court (ICC) in 2016 for the war crime of attacking religious and historical buildings in the Malian city of Timbuktu.Al-Mahdi was the first person convicted by the ICC for such a crime. VideoJacob Blake: Trump visits Kenosha to back police after shootingThe nudists spreading coronavirus in a French resortMelania Trump ex-confidante tell-all dishes on 'Princess Ivanka'Live video dating: Finding love online with an audienceCharlie Hebdo: Fourteen suspects to face trial over Paris massacreWildlife Photographer of the Year: How many crocodiles can you see?
Al Faqi made this declaration on Monday, August 22, the opening day of his trial before Trial Chamber VIII.
You may be trying to access this site from a secured browser on the server. The Chamber unanimously found Mr Al Mahdi guilty beyond reasonable doubt as a co-perpetrator of the war crime consisting in intentionally directing attacks against religious and historic buildings in Timbuktu, Mali, in June and July 2012. "Every night," he recalls, "I could hear screams coming from there. With remarkable timing, just a few days before the verdict against Mr al-Mahdi was due to be delivered, on 19 September local dignitaries gathered alongside townspeople to inaugurate the restored gate of the Sidi Yahia Mosque, in what Unesco chief Irina Bokova called "a new and decisive step in Mali's reconstruction and peace building work". Please turn on JavaScript and try again.It looks like your browser does not have JavaScript enabled. "Local pride in the city's heritage made the actions of Ansar Dine all the harder to endure, and is one reason why many in Timbuktu are keen to see justice delivered.