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May 22nd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Although he later regained consciousness in hospital and his injuries are not
thought to be life threatening, the protests badly rattled the interim
government and demonstrated its weakness in the febrile post-coup
environment.
The attack came just a day after African mediators had secured an agreement
which would see Mr Traoré in office for a year ahead of fresh elections.
The coup’s leader, Captain Amadou Sanogo, initially rejected the deal but
eventually agreed after after being offered housing and transport benefits
usually given to former presidents.
But thousands of Malians took the streets in anger over the agreement, with
some accusing Captain Sanogo of treason for accepting it.
Last night, Gerard Araud, France’s UN ambassador, warned that the deal had
been “put seriously in danger by these latest developments and maybe other
options will now have to be considered.”
Prime Minister Cheick Modibo Diarra tried to regain control in Bamako, Mali’s
capital, by appealing for calm and calling the attack “not worthy of our
country.”
Speaking on state television, he said: “Mali doesn’t deserve this. I call on
the people, especially the young people, to put an end to marches.”
Captain Sanogo and his band of low-ranking soldiers overthrew the democratic
government in March, claiming that it had failed to deal with a Tuareg
rebellion that broke out in the country’s north in January.
However, the coup created a power vacuum for the nomadic tribues and Islamists
rebels who seized control of most of Mali’s north, an area larger than
France.
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