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"Mr President, a fortnight ago, I was in Dakar, Senegal, and I talked to a Tuareg who had just fled from Mali, a well-educated man, a marabout, a spiritual leader, but of the liberal kind. All his children, of both sexes, had studied there. However, none of his children were still living or working in Mali because the situation was too dangerous, it was too uncertain, and the Tuareg felt too heavily discriminated against.
The man said ‘Those rebels, the Tuareg rebels, are villains, it is all very well for them to talk about Islam, but they have never seen the inside of a mosque!’ He is a reasonable man, but even he said: ‘I understand them and I support them, the rebels’. And I think that sends out a dangerous signal. When I left him, I had still not entirely understood what he was talking about. However, it is very clear to me that in Mali, we are not talking about a conflict that has just started. We are talking about a lack of cooperation that has lasted for generations and a lack of respect for minorities on the part of those who are in the majority.
However, here too – and the same thing happens all the time – we again have a case of unfair distribution of wealth. There is money in the Malian soil, raw materials which could enable the country to become rich. However, these are not being properly exploited, they are not being equally distributed and I think that part of the solution might be found there."@en1
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