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Mali, where I've been
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because my daughter was just studying in Touareg
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in northern Mali, north of Timbuktu.
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The Touareg are a people who had no sense of borders.
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There were Touareg across other borders, too.
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Borders are something that were artificially constructed by these powers
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to say, "Here. Our empire goes there
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and yours doesn't start until there."
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And, so, as these people rise up to defend their own territory,
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they are systematically massacred.
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They basically first decide to crush the uprising at all costs.
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There is in 1904 an extermination order.