{"id":10640,"date":"2012-02-01T02:14:02","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T02:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theredphoenixapl.org\/?p=10640"},"modified":"2026-04-23T23:26:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T04:26:30","slug":"47-killed-as-former-libyan-mercs-fight-mali-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/2012\/02\/47-killed-as-former-libyan-mercs-fight-mali-military\/","title":{"rendered":"47 Killed as Former Libyan Mercs Fight Mali Military"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenixnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/malituareg.jpeg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10641\" title=\"Mali+Tuareg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenixnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/malituareg.jpeg?resize=490%2C311\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"311\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><strong>Tuareg Spokesman Rejects Claim of Major Military Victory<\/strong> <\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">by Jason Ditz, January 19, 2012<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">The Malian military<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/01\/19\/us-mali-fighting-toll-idUSTRE80I2I020120119\">is reporting that at least 47 people were killed<\/a> <span style=\"color:#000000;\">[on Jan. 19th], including 45 rebels, as fighting between troops and ethnic Tuareg fighters in the far north continued. They claimed a major victory in the fight, with many rebels wounded.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">The rebel faction, which calls itself the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (NMLA), is a Tuareg movement<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-africa-16610893\">seeking to create an autonomous region in Mali\u2019s far north.<\/a> <span style=\"color:#000000;\">The group has attacked<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2012\/01\/18\/back-from-libya-tuareg-rebels-aim-to-capture-much-of-northern-mali\/\">several towns in the area<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">NMLA has gotten a considerable boost in recent months as a large number of Tuareg fighters who had been<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-12647115\">hired as mercenaries for the recent civil war in Libya<\/a> <span style=\"color:#000000;\">have returned home and brought their weapons with them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">NMLA spokesmen rejected the claims of a loss to the military, saying fighting continued and that there were a lot more Malian soldiers killed than the military\u2019s figures would indicate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2012\/01\/19\/47-killed-as-former-libyan-mercs-fight-mali-military\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuareg Spokesman Rejects Claim of Major Military Victory by Jason Ditz, January 19, 2012 The Malian military is reporting that at least 47 people were..<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[197,226,244],"class_list":["post-10640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","tag-imperialism","tag-imperialist-war","tag-mali"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenix.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/MaliTuareg_10640_0d239.jpeg?fit=630%2C400&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39976,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10640\/revisions\/39976"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}