The Islamist rebel leader's wife abandoned in Mali

 

The Islamist rebel leader's wife abandoned in Mali

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http://www.france24.com/en/20130318-mali-jihadists-wives-left-behind

 

As the joint French-Malian military operation flushes Islamist militants out

of northern Mali, some jihadists leave behind their wives and children when

retreating. FRANCE 24 met with the wife of a jihadist leader from the Gao

region.

By Julien SAUVAGET / Philomène REMY (video)

FRANCE 24 (text)

 

As the joint French-Malian military operation flushes Islamist militants out

of northern Mali, some jihadists leave behind their wives and children when

retreating. FRANCE 24 met with the wife of a jihadist leader from the Gao

region.

 

Mariam moved back to her mother’s house in this peaceful village near Gao,

in northern Mali, when her husband left the area.

 

She won’t say her husband’s name, but everyone in town knows he is Abu

Dardar, one of the most brutal and feared jihadist leaders in the region.

 

He saw Mariam in the market one day and decided he was going to marry her.

He liked the way she was dressed. He hated women who wore shirts or dresses

but she was veiled and already a devout Muslim. Mariam had become a radical

when she married her first husband, whom she had three children with, before

he abandoned her.

 

When the jihadist leader came and said he wanted to marry her, her family

had no choice, they had to agree.

 

Now pregnant with the child of the man who abandoned her, she seems peaceful

and resigned to her fate, saying that if her husband is dead, “it’s because

it’s God’s will.”

 

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