SG of Mali's truth commission brutally assaults and threatens editor (Demo)

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By HRNJ-Uganda International Media News December 5, 2018

The secretary general of Mali's newly established Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) Colonel Abdoulaye Makalou brutally assaulted and threatened to kill Hamidou Toure El Hadji, the managing editor of an online news site.
Source: MEDIA FEED

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