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Cease Fire – 1993

The CCF lacked resources, and out of the planned ten units, only four units were created and these were sporadically operational. Nevertheless, the CCF units were able to arrest agitators.¹ Though hopes were high, a violation of ceasefire occurred when Malian soldiers apprehended three Tuareg refugees trying to return to Mali from Mauritania and stabbed them to death. Regular Malian troops also killed former Tuareg fighters who had joined the Malian army. ²

1. Ibid., 66.
2. “Chronology for Tuareg in Mali,” Minorities at Risk Project, 2004, accessed June 15, 2011 ttp://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/469f38bb2.html.