Mali army, Russians killed civilians, staged corpse as swastika
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Local sources and a human rights group told RFI that Malian soldiers and Russian operatives killed four civilians near Timbuktu. The victims were herders with no links to any armed groups. After the killings, the perpetrators arranged one of the bodies into the shape of a swastika.