FRENCH WORD OF THE DAY: Exactions

Exactions: Looting, pillaging, vengeful acts of violence.

As seen in: « Les voisins ouest-africains du Mali veulent renforcer les autorités de transition à Bamako, impuissantes face aux activités des groupes islamistes armés qui contrôlent le nord du pays où ils commettent de nombreuses exactions, dont la destruction de sites religieux à Tombouctou. »

(Translation: “Mali’s West-African neighbours want to reinforce the transitory authorities in Bamako, powerless against the actions of armed Islamic groups that control the north of the country where they’re committing widespread looting and pillaging, including the destruction of religious sites in Timbuktu.”)


http://www.leparisien.fr/flash-actualite-monde/mali-les-pays-voisins-veulent-en-finir-avec-l-impuissance-du-pouvoir-a-bamako-03-07-2012-2075939.php

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