The Center for Strategic and International Studies published on 11 May 2022 a study titled "Massacres, Executions, and Falsified Graves: The Wagner Group's Mounting Humanitarian Cost in Mali" by Catrina Doxsee and Jared Thompson.
Russia's mercenary Wagner Group staged evidence in Mali of alleged French atrocities. In fact, it is the Wagner Group that often conducts indiscriminate killing in the country.