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Viewing cable 09BAMAKO839, ARREST AND RELEASE OF A CHILD TRAFFICKER IN NIORO

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
09BAMAKO839 2009-12-30 07:32 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Bamako
VZCZCXRO7782
RR RUEHMA RUEHPA
DE RUEHBP #0839/01 3640732
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
R 300732Z DEC 09
FM AMEMBASSY BAMAKO
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 1005
INFO RUEHZK/ECOWAS COLLECTIVE
RUEHAS/AMEMBASSY ALGIERS 0710
RUEHNK/AMEMBASSY NOUAKCHOTT 0307
UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 BAMAKO 000839 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PHUM PGOV ELAB KFRD SOCI ML
SUBJECT: ARREST AND RELEASE OF A CHILD TRAFFICKER IN NIORO 
DU SAHEL 
 
1. (SBU) On December 17, Enda-Tiers Monde, an NGO that 
combats trafficking in children in west Africa, informed the 
Embassy that Malian authorities in Nioro du Sahel, Koulikoro 
Region arrested child trafficker Sidamar ag Cherif and 
rescued eight Tuareg children originally from Kidal.  Ag 
Cherif was reportedly taking the children to a Koranic school 
in Mauritania that Dawa Islamiyya owns and operates, for 
which he claimed to have parental consent.  When Ag Cherif 
failed to present the requisite travel documents for the 
children, he was promptly arrested.  The children were 
subsequently escorted to an Enda Tiers Monde safehouse in 
Bamako, where they awaited return to Kidal.  Enda told the 
Embassy that a National Assembly Deputy from Kidal agreed 
with the Ministry for the Advancement of Women and Children 
(MPFEF) that he would escort the children home. 
 
2. (SBU) On December 28, Embassy called the prefect of Nioro, 
Lieutenant Colonel Falle Tangare, to confirm that ag Cherif 
remained in custody.  Tangare recounted that, shortly after 
having arrested ag Cherif, he received orders from a superior 
at the Ministry of Territorial Administration in Bamako to 
let the trafficker go.  Tangare was told that the Ministry 
had "investigated" the case and determined that the parents 
of the eight children had, in fact, given their consent to 
travel with ag Cherif.  The fact that ag Cherif had presented 
false travel documents did not arise as a concern.  Following 
orders, Tangara requested that the prosecutor in Nioro repeal 
the charges against ag Cherif and subsequently released him. 
 
3. (SBU) Rather than being reunited with their families as 
the Kidal deputy promised, the children had once again been 
placed in the custody of ag Cherif, who, Tangara said, 
attempted again to take them to Mauritania.  Recognizing the 
travel documents as false, Mauritanian border authorities 
refused the group entry.  Ag Cherif and the eight children 
returned to Nioro, where they await another opportunity to 
cross into Mauritania. 
 
4. (SBU) Tangara said he was frustrated about this case, as 
it was the second time this year ag Cherif had been arrested 
in Nioro.  In June, Enda Tiers Monde rescued a group of 16 
children being trafficked by ag Cherif into Mauritania to 
attend the same school operated by Dawa Islamiyya.  The 
circumstances of ag Cherif's release at that time remain 
unclear.  Asked why he had been ordered to release the 
trafficker this time, Tangara said questions involving 
communities in northern Mali were complicated and often 
lacked transparency.  For the sake of avoiding conflict with 
powerful northern individuals, Tangara said the GOM sometimes 
turned a blind eye to the illicit activities of those same 
individuals. 
 
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GOM Official Shirks Responsibility 
---------------------------------- 
 
5. (SBU) In a subsequent telephone conversation with 
Secretary General of the Ministry of Territorial 
Administration, Mamadou Seydou Toure, Toure was emphatic that 
he had no control over this case and curtly told the Embassy 
to seek answers from MPFEF, the lead ministry for anti-TIP 
efforts.  Although MPFEF is charged with coordinating 
anti-TIP activities, it lacks the power and resources to deal 
with trafficking effectively.  Toure, who has been a close 
contact of the Embassy, dismissed the Embassy's concerns that 
an official from his ministry may have ordered ag Cherif's 
release, stating, "Even if your Charge came here I would have 
nothing to tell him." 
 
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Meeting with Justice Minister 
----------------------------- 
 
6. (SBU) The same afternoon, Charge met with Minister of 
Justice Maharafa Traore and informed him of the situation, 
including the fact that Tangara had been ordered by his 
superiors to release ag Cherif.  Charge noted that Mali has 
slipped to Tier 2 Watchlist status in State Department 
rankings of countries' efforts to combat trafficking, and 
stated that U.S. law requires the Department to withhold all 
but humanitarian assistance from countries that fail to show 
progress two years in a row.  While there are waiver 
provisions, this could at some point jeopardize  spending in 
such areas as education, economic growth, support for 
decentralization and democracy, and military capacity 
building.  The Minister said he understood, and noted that 
any civilized country would not want to see its children 
treated in this way.  Charge mentioned that the secretary 
general of the Justice Ministry had been helpful in the past 
 
BAMAKO 00000839  002 OF 002 
 
 
on trafficking issues and would follow up with him on this 
case, but needed the Minister's high level intervention.  The 
Minister indicated he would take the case seriously. 
 
BARLERIN