Where is Black Lives Matter speaking out about the carnage in Africa, where jihadists are murdering blacks wholesale, from the genocide against Christians in Nigeria to Islamic expansionism throughout the Sahel region, where thousands have been killed and over four million were displaced in 2022.
Armed groups linked to al-Qaeda and the Islamic State have been warring and expanding the territory they control since 2012. Now, Germany is speeding up its Mali withdrawal in the midst of the extremely violent conflict, following in the footsteps of France. According to Europe News:
Berlin says political and security conditions in Mali, which is run by a military junta, can no longer justify the deployment of 1,000 German peacekeepers.
In 2013, France expressed surprise at the fighting strength of the Mali jihadists. The violence continued to spread across the Sahel region, despite international military peacekeeping efforts. In 2021, French troops prepared to withdraw from Mali over fear of the resurgence of jihad groups, but not before killing Abdelmalek Droukdel, a highly influential and visionary al-Qaeda leader whose mission extended beyond al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, in his quest for global expansion of the Sharia.
As the violent jihad expands across Africa, Germany, France and the UK continue to keep their borders wide open, so that any jihadist who chooses to infiltrate the illegal migrant streams is free to do so; and they have been taking advantage of the opportunity.
“Germany to speed up Mali withdrawal as UN mission ends,” Al Jazeera, June 28, 2023:
German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius has said the country is looking to pull its soldiers out of Mali faster, though still in an ordered manner, in light of the planned end of a United Nations peacekeeping mission on June 30.
“For us, this means that we will try to get out even faster, to get out of Mali but in an orderly way,” he told broadcaster ZDF on Wednesday.
Germany, which has deployed some 1,000 soldiers to Mali, is already withdrawing them and aims to wind up by May 2024.
The troops were mostly stationed near the northern town of Gao where their main task is to gather reconnaissance for the UN peacekeeping mission MINUSMA.
MINUSMA, officially known as UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali, was established in 2013 to support foreign and local troops battling armed groups. But in recent months, there have been repeated instances of friction between the Malian military government and the mission…..
Ray Jarman says
What ever happened to the concept of the best defense is a good offense? Why has the military of the West not decided to wipe out the excrement? It is like watching the Germans in two wars walk across most of Europe before someone woke up and said enough is enough. These animals as well as those in other parts of Sub-Saharan Africa could be wiped off the face of the earth with little difficulty if the will truly existed. Meanwhile, the poor Christians as well as people of other religions suffer the passivity and apathy while the rich keep enjoying the good life.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Except that modern warfare rules no longer allow wiping out any other people, despite what the Russians are trying in Ukraine or the Turks in Syria. The normal sensible thing to have done would have been to let Africa stew in its own juices, or if one were sympathetic to Christians, arm Christian militias so that they could take on Boko Haram, al Qaeda Mahgreb or whatever other jihadist militias were out there
Instead, Europe has thrown itself open to the barbarians, and I don’t see how the continent recovers. Actually I do, but it’s too much of a hypothetical
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I had no idea that Germans were in Mali. It’s like when an American serviceman was killed in Niger some 5 years ago, & Lindsay Graham was surprised.