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In reply to the discussion: Couple Stoned in Mali [View all]warrprayer
(4,734 posts)"It was horrible, he said, noting that the woman had moaned and cried out and that her partner had yelled something indistinct during the attack. It was inhuman. They killed them like they were animals.
The official insisted that he not to be identified because he said our lives are in danger here. The official said many of the 2,000 people in Aguelhok had already begun leaving, crossing the border into Algeria, as a result of Sundays stoning.
The stoning was the Islamists most brutal reported act of repression so far. Refugees from the north have given numerous accounts of public whippings and beatings for alleged violations of Shariah law in the main towns of Timbuktu and Gao.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/31/world/africa/couple-stoned-to-death-by-islamists-in-mali.html