Couple stoned to death for adultery in Mali ‘approved of their punishment’

July 31st, 2012

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Amnesty condemns gruesome killing by Islamists

By
Nick Enoch

PUBLISHED:

07:49 EST, 31 July 2012

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UPDATED:

08:17 EST, 31 July 2012

The young pair were publicly executed in the remote town of Aguelhok in Mali. Pictured, the type and size of rock that would have been used to stone them to death

A couple accused of engaging in extramarital affairs have been stoned to death by an Islamic militant group in control of northern Mali.

The young pair were publicly executed in the remote town of Aguelhok, near the vast West African nation’s northern border with Algeria, on Sunday, a spokesman for the Ansar Dine (‘defenders of the faith’) group said.

‘These two people were married and had extra-conjugal relations.

‘Our men on the ground in Aguelhok applied sharia [Islamic law],’ Sanda Ould Bounama said on Monday.

‘They both died right away and even asked for this application.

‘We don’t have to answer to anyone over the application of sharia,’ he said.

Most people living in northern Mali have long practised Islam, but frustrations with the strict form of sharia being imposed by Islamists have sparked several protests in recent months.

Ansar Dine and well-armed allies, including Al Qaeda splinter group Mujwa, have hijacked a separatist uprising by local Tuareg rebels and now control two-thirds of north Mali’s desert – including Gao, Kidal and Timbuktu.

Western and African governments are struggling to muster a response to the crisis as politicians in the capital Bamako continue to squabble over how the country should be governed after a March coup removed the country’s president.

Amnesty International’s Deputy Africa Director Paule Rigaud said: ‘Amnesty condemns this gruesome and horrific act of stoning.

Most people living in northern Mali have long practised Islam, but frustrations with the strict form of sharia being imposed by Islamists have sparked several protests in recent months

‘This killing is yet another human rights abuse committed by the combatants who control the north of Mali, and illustrates the climate of fear that armed opposition groups have created within the areas they control.

‘Amnesty International has documented incidences of abuses carried out by armed groups in Mali on people to change their behaviour in accordance with their fundamentalist interpretation of Islam.

‘The new behaviours being enforced include dress codes for both women and men, the banning of all music except religious music and forbidding of people of opposite sexes if unmarried to sit next to each other on a bus or to walk the streets together.

‘The imposition of these new behaviours has been accompanied by intimidation and physical violence including deliberate and arbitrary killings.’

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– tash, Preston UK, 31/7/2012 16:14 – Yes Tash you are!

– rachs, Dorset, 31/7/2012 17:30

Words fail me

– Peter, U.A.E. ex UK, , 31/7/2012 16:37

Well adultery is a horrible act I do not blame countries having the death penalty for it but death by stoning should not be the way.

– James, London, 31/7/2012 16:30

What’s really sad is these two people most likely did nothing wrong and were stoned to death for being seen speaking to each other. The biggest evil of religion is that people will commit unspeakable acts that they know are wrong and convince society that an invisible bully in the sky told them to.

– the donna, USA, 31/7/2012 16:22

Am I the only one who did not realise Timbuktu was a real place?

– tash, Preston UK, 31/7/2012 16:14

Britain will be like this one day if we carry on voting for idiots like Cameron and Milipede.

– Wesleyan, Northumberland, 31/7/2012 15:58

Let he/she, who is without sin, cast the first stone!!!

– Tony, Norfolk, 31/7/2012 15:51

As Jesus said, “Let those without sin throw the first stone.”

– duncan edwards, manchester, 31/7/2012 15:40

So they looked at each other shrugged and said ” OK sounds fair ” .

– someone, somewhere in Europe, 31/7/2012 15:33

Another country on my list not to visit!