MALI / FALLEN PEACEKEEPERS

The UN mission in Mali (MINUSMA) paid tribute today to seven Guinean peacekeepers killed in an attack on a mission’s base in northern Mali. MINUSMA /RECENT

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:16
• Production Date: 17 February 2016
• Asset Language: French
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS MULTIDIMENSIONAL INTEGRATED STABILIZATION MISSION IN MALI - MINUSMA
• Subject Topical: PEACEKEEPERS; TERRORISM
• Geographic Subject: MALI
• MAMS Id: 1566002
• Parent Id: 1566002
• Alternate Title: unifeed160217b

Description

STORY: MALI / FALLEN PEACEKEEPERS
TRT: 02:16
SOURCE: MINUSMA / RECENT
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: FRENCH / NATS

DATELINE: 17 FEBRUARY 2016, BAMAKO, MALI / RECENT

Shotlist

17 FEBRUARY 2016, BAMAKO, MALI

1. Various shots, soldiers carrying coffins
2. Wide shot, coffins
3. Med shot, trumpet playing
4. Wide shot, venue with people in foreground
5. Med shot, MINUSMA Force Commander saluting
6. Wide shot, MINUSMA Force Commander in front of coffins
7. SOUNDBITE (French) General Michael Lollesgaard, MINUSMA Force Commander:
“We will find the perpetrators and we will pursue them because they are an immediate threat to MINUSMA.”
8. Med shot, Annadif laying flowers
9. SOUNDBITE (French) Mohamed Saleh Annadif, Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Mali:
“Their deaths are added to the already too long list of MINUSMA staff who have fallen for the peace in Mali, alongside the other Malian victims, all of them victims of terrorism.”
10. Med shot, coffins
11. Close up, coffin
12. Various shots, soldiers carrying coffins away

13 FEBRUARY 2016, KIDAL, MALI

13. Wide shot, soldiers standing on top of a container
14. Wide shot, group standing in the rubble
15. Med shot, rubble
16. Close up, part of a rocket
17. Wide shot, military compound
18. Wide shot, UN armed vehicle behind barbwire
19. Zoom out, soldiers on the truck bed through barbwire

Storyline

The UN mission in Mali (MINUSMA) paid tribute today to seven Guinean peacekeepers killed in an attack on a mission’s base in northern Mali.

The attack, claimed by Malian Islamist group Ansar Dine, took place on Friday (12 Feb) in the north-eastern town of Kidal.

Before being flown to Guinea, seven coffins draped in UN flags were displayed today (17 Feb) at the MINUSMA headquarters in Malian capital Bamako.

After awarding posthumously UN medals to fallen peacekeepers, General Michael Lollesgaard, MINUSMA Force Commander said “We will find the perpetrators and we will pursue them because they are an immediate threat to MINUSMA.”

MINUSMA’s chief, Mohamed Saleh Annadif said “Their deaths are added to the already too long list of MINUSMA staff who have fallen for the peace in Mali.”

The United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali, known mostly under its French acronym MINUSMA was launched in July 2013, following a French military offensive that ousted the jihadist groups who hijacked a Tuareg-led rebellion in Malian northern territories in 2012.

Malian government has since concluded a peace agreement with the Tuareg-led rebels who have launched several uprisings since the 1960s.

Jihadist violence however still persists in the vast and sparsely populated north of the country.