Jihadist police chief of Timbuktu jailed for war crimes in Mali

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Jihadist police chief of Timbuktu jailed for war ******* in Mali

The International ********* Court (ICC) has sentenced the former head of the Islamic police in Mali’s historic city of Timbuktu to 10 years in prison for war *******.

Prosecutors said al-Hassan ag Abdoul Aziz ag Mohamed ag Mahmoud led a “reign of *******” in the city after it was overrun in 2012 by the al-Qaeda-linked Ansar Dine group.

He was found guilty in June this year of ********, overseeing public amputations by machete and the brutal floggings of residents, including children.

He was acquitted on charges of ***** and ******* slavery, as well as destroying Timbuktu’s ancient mausoleums.

Hassan was handed over to the ICC in 2018 by the Malian authorities – five years after French troops helped liberate Timbuktu from the jihadists.

Ansar Dine was one of several Islamist militant groups to exploit an ******* Tuareg uprising to take over cities in northern Mali.

Another Islamist militant leader who destroyed ancient shrines in Timbuktu was sentenced to nine years in jail in 2016.

Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi admitted to leading fighters who destroyed historic mausoleums at the world heritage site in Mali in 2012.

Timbuktu was a major centre of Islamic learning between the 13th and 17th Centuries and was added to the Unesco world heritage list in 1988.

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