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Viewing cable 08BAMAKO660, NATIONAL ASSEMBLY RATIFIES TERRORISM LAW BUT

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
08BAMAKO660 2008-07-16 08:50 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Bamako
VZCZCXRO9381
RR RUEHMA RUEHPA
DE RUEHBP #0660/01 1980850
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
R 160850Z JUL 08
FM AMEMBASSY BAMAKO
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 9452
INFO RUEHZK/ECOWAS COLLECTIVE
RUEHAS/AMEMBASSY ALGIERS 0464
UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 03 BAMAKO 000660 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PGOV KDEM PTER PHUM EAGR ECON EIND ELAB EINV
SOCI, KISL, ML 
SUBJECT: NATIONAL ASSEMBLY RATIFIES TERRORISM LAW BUT 
POSTPONES VOTES ON COTTON PRIVATIZATION AND THE DEATH 
PENALTY 
 
REF: A. 07 BAMAKO 01336 
     B. BAMAKO 00574 
     C. BAMAKO 00263 
     D. BAMAKO 00589 
 
1.(SBU)  On July 5, the final day of the National Assembly's 
first three-month session for 2008, National Assembly 
Deputies ratified a law criminalizing acts of terrorism in 
Mali.  The vote for ratification was unanimous.  In addition 
to defining terrorism, the law prescribes punishment ranging 
from various terms of imprisonment to death for committing or 
financing terrorist acts.  The terrorism legislation has been 
pending before the Assembly since 2007.  Its approval was 
delayed in part due to sensitivities involved in passing a 
terrorism law while the Malian government was in the process 
of negotiating a settlement with the Tuareg bandit turned 
rebel Ibrahim Bahanga.  The Assembly tabled two other 
controversial measures: a proposal by President Amadou 
Toumani Toure to abolish the death penalty in Mali; and a law 
finalizing the privatization of the Mali's cotton parastatal. 
 While the failure to bring the death penalty and cotton 
privatization bills to a vote marked a significant defeat for 
President Toure, it highlighted the National Assembly's 
independence from Mali's executive branch.  End Summary. 
 
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Mali's Anti-Terrorism Law 
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2.(U)  On the last day of its three-month session the Malian 
National Assembly unanimously voted to ratify an 
anti-terrorism bill that has languished on the Assembly floor 
for nearly a year.  The text must now be signed by the 
President of the National Assembly and then forwarded for the 
approval of President Amadou Toumani Toure.  The legislation, 
which was approved by the Malian Government's Council of 
Ministers and forwarded to the Assembly for debate in 
September 2007, defines terrorism and outlines penalties for 
committing or financing terrorist acts in Mali.  Mali's 
criminal code previously included no references to terrorism. 
 The new law defines terrorism as "the commission of a 
violent act that causes or could cause death, injury or 
material harm with the intention of intimidating the 
population or forcing a government to do or abstain from 
doing something."  Potential acts of terrorism include 
hijacking or compromising the security of an aircraft, boat 
or vehicle; hostage taking; the kidnapping or murder of 
individuals; the use of explosives or dangerous substances to 
inflict material or bodily harm; the acquisition and illegal 
usage of nuclear material; the possession or transportation 
of weapons of war; and the financing of terrorist acts. 
 
3.(U)  In forwarding the anti-terrorism legislation to the 
National Assembly floor for ratification, the Assembly's 
Committee for National Defense, Security and Civil Protection 
urged Assembly Deputies take into account "the acts of 
violence and terror that Mali has experienced over the 
years."  To jog fellow Deputies' memories, the Committee 
referenced several recent incidents on Malian soil including 
"German tourists taken hostage in Algeria", a hunting party 
of Qatari nationals that was briefly taken hostage along the 
Mali-Mauritania frontier north of Timbuktu in 2004 and the 
laying of anti-personnel land mines in the northern town of 
Tinzawaten by the Tuareg bandit/rebel Ibrahim Bahanga.  It 
was not clear whether the reference to "German tourists" 
referred to the group of Germans captured by the Salafist 
Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) in 2003, the two 
Austrian citizens currently held by AQIM, or both.  The 
National Defense Committee noted that while Mali's criminal 
code currently deals "severely" with criminal acts, 
"terrorist infractions are not specifically mentioned."  The 
new anti-terrorism legislation aims to close this loophole. 
 
4.(SBU)  By drawing attention to Bahanga's use of land mines 
in Tinzawaten, the Assembly's National Defense Committee 
zeroed in on the most sensitive aspect of the anti-terrorism 
bill and the topic that has generated the most debate: the 
law's impact on the status of Tuareg rebels and on going 
negotiations between the Malian government and Tuareg rebel 
leaders.  Bahanga and the Tuareg rebel Alliance for Democracy 
and Change (ADC) are currently holding between them 
approximately 80 Malian soldiers as, depending on one's point 
of view, either hostages or prisoners of war.  This fact 
would seemingly enable Mali to charge the soldiers' Tuareg 
captors under the new anti-terrorism legislation.  The Malian 
government, however, continues to pursue a negotiated - as 
opposed to a military or legal - solution to the Tuareg 
crisis and there seems to be enough wiggle room within the 
 
 
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