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Perhaps inevitably, the women of Timbuktu were singled out for special persecution. Miss Maiga committed two offences in Islamist eyes: she sometimes failed to cover her face when venturing out. Most heinously of all, she carried pictures of Western pop stars, notably Celine Dion, on her mobile phone.
The latter crime was discovered by four Islamist gunmen who stopped her in the street last November. When they saw the offending images, they beat her with a whip made from camel skin.
"I did not count how many times they hit me," she said.
From then on, they kept track of her movements and watched the home that she shares with her parents and siblings.
In late November, she ventured outside to hang some laundry – and a gunman noticed she was apparently unveiled. Full story...
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Perhaps inevitably, the women of Timbuktu were singled out for special persecution. Miss Maiga committed two offences in Islamist eyes: she sometimes failed to cover her face when venturing out. Most heinously of all, she carried pictures of Western pop stars, notably Celine Dion, on her mobile phone.
The latter crime was discovered by four Islamist gunmen who stopped her in the street last November. When they saw the offending images, they beat her with a whip made from camel skin.
"I did not count how many times they hit me," she said.
From then on, they kept track of her movements and watched the home that she shares with her parents and siblings.
In late November, she ventured outside to hang some laundry – and a gunman noticed she was apparently unveiled. Full story...
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