Simmering racial tensions boiled over in Mali on Tuesday as a army wanted down suspected Islamist fighters and residents took punish on shops belonging to a Tuareg and Arab minorities.
Reports from a Saharan city of Timbuktu pronounced dozens of residents had pounded skill owned by Tuareg and Arab traders whom they suspected of collaborating with a rebels. The al-Qaida-allied fighters evacuated a city final week as French and Malian army sealed in.
There were fears that a Tuareg civilians could now be held adult in a bloody backlash, both from indignant neighbours and from a army.
Malian soldiers were deployed in Timbuktu on Tuesday though done small bid to stop widespread ethnic-based looting.
Tuareg rebels have
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