Malian youth, Islamists clash over planned amputation

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Malian youth, Islamists clash over planned amputation

BAMAKO | Mon Aug 6, 2012 10:46am EDT

(Reuters) - Malian youths clashed with ruling Islamists in the city of Gao in a protest against the planned punishment by amputation of a suspected robber and the beating of a journalist covering the demonstration, local residents said.

The unrest followed the fatal stoning by Islamists of a couple accused of adultery and pointed to growing resistance to the imposition of sharia (Islamic law) by Islamist gunmen, some of whom are linked to al Qaeda, in control of Mali's north.

Demonstrations by hundreds of young people went on well past nightfall in Gao on Sunday, ending when Islamists fired into the air to scatter the crowds, residents told Reuters on Monday.

"The protests lasted all yesterday and continued very late into the night," said Kader Toure, a local journalist.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/06/us-mali-crisis-idUSBRE8750RH20120806

[Ghost Dog]

1. These fundamentalists are not ruling those lands through the will of the people

but by the power of armed force.

Meanwhile, there is a different kind of rebellion going on...