Islamists have stoned to death in northern Mali according to the descriptions of eye witnesses an unmarried couple. Two representatives of the region, especially did not want to be named said on Monday that the couple had been killed in the city Aguelhok before the eyes of some 200 people. They left behind two children together, therefore, one of which was only six months old. The couple was out on Sunday from the suburbs of the city Aguelhok into the town center and there were killed, said the two representatives. "I was there," said one of them. "They were put into two large holes and pelted with stones until they were dead."According to him, the woman fell at the beginning of the stoning in a swoon, the man was still screaming at first.
Allied with al Qaeda
The second official said that the couple leave two children, one of which was only six months old. "People have come to see that there were witnesses," he said of the approximately 200 attendees. It is the first reported case of stoning had fallen since the region several months ago in the hands of armed Islamist groups. The city Aguelhok is controlled by the group Ansar Dine, which is allied with Al Qaeda.
Government outraged
The Human Rights Commissioner of the Federal Government, Markus Loening (FDP) was outraged and demanded an end to "serious" violations of human rights in Mali. "We strongly condemn the violence against the people of northern Mali in order to establish a radical interpretation of Sharia," said Loening, Berlin. If the "terrible report" on the stoning of coming true, if it were an act that was also in Mali, and the punishment "can never be justified" is.
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