Tuareg rebels Declare Independence

PARIS, - Tuareg rebels of the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad northern Mali (MNLA) Friday (06/04/2012), declared "independence Azawad" in a statement on their Internet website and through an interpreter vicara on France 24 television.

"We firmly declare independence Azawad starting today," said Mossa Ag Attaher, adding that the rebels would respect "the borders with other countries."

Armed groups attacked the consulate of the Islamic gerilaywan Algerian diplomat and kidnapped seven Thursday (04/05/2012) on fears that fighters linked to Al Qaeda turned the country into evil states and increase the suffering of the population.

When the Tuareg rebellion succeeded in decades to "liberate" their homeland, their opponents began to impose fundamentalist Islamic law in parts of northern Mali.

MNLA said as a result of their successful struggle for a region which they named Azawad, they stop all military operations began at midnight Thursday.

Ag Attaher announced: "We have a full role and responsibility to secure this area. We have been very important to end the war, freedom ... are now embarking on the biggest task."

Algerian consul kidnapping and six members of his staff in Gao "regrettable," he added and said his group opposed the move but will try to save their lives.

Desert tribes who move around a lot it does not own in the north and many people say there is a group Ansar Dine Iyad Ag Ghaly led - which began imposing Islamic law - that is the new rulers of the desert.

"From what we know, MNLA not a lot to do at this time but is the most powerful Iyad and he teamed up with AQIM," Mali said a military source told AFP earlier, referring to Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghrib (AQIB).

Statement on the internet MNLA affirmed "strong commitment to achieve lasting peace and will initiate the institutional foundations for a country that didasakan on a democratic constitution for an independent Azawad."

MNLA executive committee called for immediate international community recognizes that independent country.

Triggered by the collapse of the West African country, which broke into rebel-held north and the south are dominated junta in two weeks since the coup, the international community tried to solve the conflict.

Algerian Foreign Ministry said a group of unknown and consulates in the city of Gao's kidnapping and six members of his staff.

Witnesses told AFP that the attackers were black flag is a symbol gerlyawan Salafist Islam who occupied Timbuktu and other towns in northern Mali.

Amnesty International warned that northern Mali faces a humanitarian disaster after the rebels looted food supplies and medicine throughout the region who have faced food shortages.