Cease Fire – 1994
1994
A serious violation of the ceasefire agreement took place in 1994. On February 1994 Mouvement Populaire de lÕAzawad (MPA) Col. Bilal Saloum was killed, allegedly by Armée révolutionnaire de liberation de lÕAzawad (ARLA). This incident incited further violence between these two rebel movements. On June 15, 1994, three Malian Tuareg movements, the Islamic Arab Front of the Azaouad (FIAA), the ARLA, and the PFLA (Front populaire pour la libération de lÕAzawad) called on their already integrated soldiers to quit the army and return to their bases in northern Mali. On June 20, 1994, the MUFA, (the group that had negotiated the National Pact on behalf of the Tuareg movement), said that 176 people had been killed by “forces of order” (police or soldiers) in northern Mali. The MUFA also contested that the deployment of the army in the northern part of the country was a violation of the spirit of the peace pact. The violence continued until October 23 1994, when the Tuaregs and the Malian government agreed to end the conflict within 6 months. 1