Mali’s Struggle: Not Simply of Their Own Making
►http://www.globalpolicy.org/component/content/article/190-issues/51585-malis-struggle-not-simply-of-their-own-making.html
This openSecurity article examines the way in which foreign interventions have impacted the current political crises in Mali. In 1991, nonviolent protests brought down the Mousa Traoré dictatorship, and Mali was able to establish a stable democratic government “despite a history of enormous poverty, ethnic divisions, and foreign intervention.” Today’s current political situation can be read as the “consequence” of misguided foreign intervention where countries, like the US and France, sought to impose a military solution as a quick fix to a complex political problem.
By Stephen Zunes