Ansar Dine

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Ansar Dine ( Arabic أنصار الدين, DMG Anṣār ad-Dīn ), “ Supporters of the Faith ” is an Islamist group led by Iyad Ag Ghaly . Ag Ghaly is one of the most prominent figures of the 2nd Tuareg Rebellion in the 1990s. In 1990, as head of the then popular movement of Azawad (MPA), he ordered the attack on a military garrison in eastern Ménaka. This is still considered the beginning of the revolt today.

Since March 2017, Ansar Dine has been absorbed into the new group Dschamāʿat Nusrat al-Islām wa-l-Muslimīn .

Ansar Dine wants to introduce Sharia law (Islamic law) in the West African state of Mali . Ag Ghaly, the leader of Ansar Dine, who, according to his supporters, found his “true faith” after a stay in Pakistan, said of the political events in spring 2012: “I don't want independence, I want Sharia for my people.” and further: "We are against revolutions that are not in the name of Islam". He rejects the MNLA's unilateral declaration of independence . Ag Ghaly is also charged with maintaining ties to al-Qaeda in the Maghreb and an Islamist splinter group led by his cousin Hamada Ag Hama . The Islamist rebel group Ansar Dine controlled all major cities in the north in 2012, e.g. B. Timbuktu .

Women have to veil themselves, thieves have to expect that their right hand will be chopped off without a constitutional verdict . Ansar Dine also puts pressure on hotels that serve alcohol. Radio stations are no longer allowed to play international music.

In contrast to the MNLA, Ansar Dine is not fighting for a religiously neutral nation-state, but for an Islamist state in the Azawad region .

In May 2012, the MNLA and Ansar Dine agreed to unite their troops and establish an Islamic state in the northern territories they control. A few days later, however, the agreement was declared null and void. However, the alliance finally broke up on June 8th due to the refusal of the secular MNLA to recognize the Sharia, and the first skirmishes between the two groups. 28 June 2012 Ansar Dine brought to Kidal and Gao and Timbuktu completely under their control, the MNLA expelled from the cities and sat there the Sharia.

In May and June 2012, members of Ansar Dine destroyed the Sidi Mahmud Ben Amar mausoleum in Timbuktu, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and threatened attacks on other mausoleums. At the end of June 2012, Timbuktu (the focus is on the clay mosques of Timbuktu ) was placed on the Red List of World Cultural Heritage in Danger due to the armed conflict in Mali . Shortly thereafter, the destruction of the UNESCO- listed tombs of Sidi Mahmud, Sidi Moctar and Alpha Moyaunter continued under mockery of UNESCO. In September 2016, the International Criminal Court (ICC) recognized the crimes as a war crime and sentenced the rebel leader Ahmad Al Faqi Al Mahdi to nine years in prison. Al Mahdi pleaded guilty.

In November 2015, Ansar Dine killed three people in an attack on the UN soldiers' camp in Kidal .

Another attack on the MINUSMA camp in Kidal on February 12, 2016 kills six blue helmet soldiers from Guinea and injures another 30.

Ansar Dine is committed to 3 new attacks on April 12 and 13, 2016 in Tessalit (3 French soldiers killed, 1 wounded), on the road connecting Aguelhoc and Tessalit (4 Chadian MINUSMA soldiers killed) and in Camp Bony of the Malian army (7 dead).

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