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Viewing cable 08OUAGADOUGOU679, MALIAN TUAREGS WILL REMAIN IN BURKINA FASO UNTIL GOBF

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
08OUAGADOUGOU679 2008-07-23 16:16 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Ouagadougou
VZCZCXRO4346
RR RUEHMA RUEHPA
DE RUEHOU #0679/01 2051616
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
R 231616Z JUL 08
FM AMEMBASSY OUAGADOUGOU
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 3990
INFO RUEHZK/ECOWAS COLLECTIVE
UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 OUAGADOUGOU 000679 
 
SENSITIVE 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PREF PREL PHUM ML UV
SUBJECT: MALIAN TUAREGS WILL REMAIN IN BURKINA FASO UNTIL GOBF 
INVESTIGATIONS ON ASYLUM STATUS ARE COMPLETE 
 
REF: A) OUAGADOUGOU 448; B) BAMAKO 648 
 
1. (U) Summary: As of late July, around 1,990 Malian Tuareg seeking 
refugee asylum were living at various locations around Burkina Faso, 
the majority of them in a refugee camp in Djibo, in Northern Burkina 
Faso.  These asylum seekers are currently living off donations from 
local and international organizations including: the United Nations 
High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), the Red Cross, and the 
Government of Burkina Faso (GOBF).  According to the director of the 
Burkina Faso National Commission for Refugees (CONAREF), they will 
remain in their respective camps until investigations on each asylum 
seeker are complete and the GOBF can decide who is entitled to stay. 
 
 
2. (U) The Malian Embassy here believes the asylum seekers had no 
reason to flee Mali, and that most were already living in Burkina 
Faso.  Malian Embassy officials say they will assist Malians who 
wish to return home.  End Summary. 
 
CONAREF: Malian Tuaregs have Real Fear for Their Lives 
--------------------------------------------- --------- 
 
3. (SBU) CONAREF Director Der Kogda told PolOff on July 15 that 
approximately 1,990 Malians were now living in temporary quarters in 
Djibo and in other parts of the country.  After visiting Djibo 
during the week of July 7 and conducting several interviews, Kodga 
said that many Malian Tuaregs currently residing in Djibo had fled 
Mali out of a real and founded fear for their lives.  Kodga agreed 
that the Tuaregs were not the victims of current fighting in Mali, 
but believed firmly that they did not relocate to Burkina Faso for 
economic reasons.  These refugees, Kodga explained, were previously 
living in Mali in areas with fighting on both sides of them and 
feared attacks from both military and civilian enemies.  Having 
lived through GOM-Tuareg fighting in the early 1990s, these Tuaregs 
considered their movement into Burkina Faso to have been a 
necessary, precautionary measure (ref A).  Kodga maintained his 
support of the Malians, and cited the poor conditions that they were 
currently living in.  Kodga felt that the Tuaregs would not live in 
these conditions by choice, unless they felt they had no other 
choice. 
 
4. (SBU) According to CONAREF, none of the asylum seekers CONAREF 
interviewed intended to return home, indicating, in the GOBF's 
opinion, that the refugees faced a real and constant threat to their 
security in Mali. CONAREF maintains that there was a need for the 
refugees to stay in Burkina Faso for the time being despite the 
release by the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees (UNHCR) 
of a report that found only about a dozen of the Malian Tuaregs were 
actually entitled to live under refugee status (ref B).  CONAREF 
said they had not received a copy of the UNHCR report, but had heard 
that the UNHCR report criticized their office. 
 
5. (SBU) Kodga claimed that after giving UNHCR free-reign in Burkina 
Faso to conduct their assessment of the refugee situation, UNHCR had 
complained to the press that they had received no assistance from 
CONAREF.  Kogda expressed his extreme dissatisfaction with UNHCR for 
the way they had changed their opinion about the Tuareg refugees. 
Kodga bemoaned that UNHCR had not asked for any assistance during 
their visit to Burkina Faso.  Kodga defended GOBF actions, saying 
that the Government was obliged to accept the Malians as refugees, 
at least until they were proven not to qualify for refugee status. 
Furthermore, the GOBF had done a great deal of work in managing the 
humanitarian needs associated with the refugees, including the 
creation of an inter-ministerial committee of government offices and 
local and international groups and NGOs. 
 
 
Malian Embassy Denies Threat to Malian Tuaregs 
--------------------------------------------- - 
 
6. (SBU) Malian Embassy Deputy Chief of Mission, Sekou Maiga, Maiga 
told PolOff on July 2 that, as far as the Government of Mali was 
concerned, the UNHCR and the GOBF were free to do what they thought 
was best to support the Malian population of displaced persons now 
living in Burkina Faso.  From the Malian Government's perspective, 
these people were citizens of Mali who had not been endangered or 
forced from their homes in any way.  Furthermore, their 
circumstances were in no way associated with the ongoing conflict in 
Mali.  Maiga felt it was possible that these refugees were seeking 
asylum because they feared a repeat of violence against them such as 
occurred in the early 1990s (noted above), but found this reasoning 
difficult to justify.  Maiga said that economic hardship was a more 
likely cause for the presence of Malian Tuaregs in Burkina Faso. 
 
7. (SBU) According to Maiga, many of the Malian Tuaregs who 
presented themselves at the stadium in Ouagadougou have been in 
Burkina Faso for as many as 15 years.  They are not displaced 
persons at all, he claimed.  Maiga believed that many Malians who 
presented themselves as refugees in Ouagadougou were already living 
in Burkina Faso, possibly camped near the Mali-Burkina border near 
 
OUAGADOUGO 00000679  002 OF 002 
 
 
Djibo, and had received word from their fellow countrymen to come to 
Ouagadougou for assistance.  Maiga cited the example of one Malian 
citizen in particular who had been in Ouagadougou for about a decade 
and owned a shop at one the local hotels.  Other Malians, he 
continued, have been in Burkina Faso so long that they have 
Burkinabe wives and their children are enrolled in local schools. 
Maiga firmly believed that because of these facts, the Malian 
Tuaregs did not qualify for refugee status. 
 
The next steps and Embassy Comment 
---------------------------------- 
 
8. (SBU) Kodga said the next steps for this displaced population 
would be completion of investigations on which individuals would 
qualify for asylum status in Burkina Faso.  Following these 
investigations, which he hoped would end soon, the GOBF would react 
accordingly, either returning the refugees to Mali or asking them to 
apply for resident status in Burkina Faso, said Kodga. 
 
9. (SBU) Comment: CONAREF seems disgruntled about how UNHCR revealed 
their ruling on the Tuaregs, which could be the reason they seem to 
be ignoring the UNHCR findings.   It is also possible that CONAREF 
wants to be cautious in how they treat the Malians, and to complete 
their due diligence.  The GOBF will be able to host the Malian 
Tuaregs as long as there is enough financial support from donors for 
their care and feeding. 
 
BROWN