WORLD IN BRIEF : MALI : Ex-President to Die for Mass Killings
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Former President Moussa Traore and three former senior army officers were given mandatory death sentences after a court found them guilty of mass murder in the deaths of protesters in 1991. After a 10-week trial, a Malian high court said Traore, 56, had ordered security forces to open fire on opposition demonstrators in the capital, Bamako, and provincial cities, killing 106 people.
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