Chief of Boulkessi village
Cases- Location of case in SG report
- 2018-074-001
- Relevant SG report
- Year of the report
- 2018
- From Country
- Country Geolocation
Latitude: 17.570692
Longitude: -3.996166
- Country Geolocation (linked Cases)
- Mali
- From Region
- Type of record
- Unnamed individual/group/organization
- Gender
- Male
- Was the victim a foreign national?
- No
- Was the victim a minor?
- No
- Type of rights defended
- Accountability & impunity
- Was the victim a civil servant, member of the security forces or of the judiciary?
- No
- Reported trigger of reprisal
source of information for the MINUSMA Human Rights and Protection Division. had reported the location of a mass grave containing bodies of four individuals killed by armed forces in an extrajudicial execution then he began to receive these threats.
- Engagement with UN body
- UN Peace Operation / Political mission
- Dates of engagement
- unclear
- Type of attempted engagement
- Submission of information to UN
- Dates of mentioned reprisals
- before 26 October 2017
- Location of mentioned reprisals
- Boulkessi village (close to the Burkina Faso border, Mondoro commune, Douentza cercle, Mopti region)
- Reprisal information
reported that he had received threats relating directly to his cooperation with them regarding an investigation into allegations of extra-judicial executions committed by Forces Armées Maliennes (FAMa). It is alleged that he received three threatening phone calls from unknown callers whose voices were disguised, and who referred to his collaboration with the investigation.
- Types of reprisals suffered
- Threats/Intimidations (incl. "fear of reprisal")
- Alleged/likely perpetrators
- State actors
- Was the reprisal based on new legislation?
- No
- Does the report make general comment about country’s environment for engagement with UN?
- Yes
- Is the country cited for a "pattern of reprisal" in the context of this case?
- No
- Is a pattern of reprisals mentioned otherwise in the context of this case?
- No
- Does the report cite "self-censorship" as an issue in the context of this case?
- No
- How many times has the case been followed up in subsequent SG reports?
- 0
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