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IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Author)
Information on violent incidents between
Muslims and Christians from 1984 to the present is currently
unavailable to the DIRB in Ottawa; however, general information on
the relations between the two religious groups indicates that there
is relatively little tension between Christians and Muslims in Mali
as compared to other areas in Africa (Islam and Islamic
Groups 1992, 154). For further details, please refer to the
attachment from Islam and Islamic Groups.
Country Reports 1993, which is
available at your Regional Documentation Centre, comments on the
outcome of the government's efforts to promote religious tolerance
in Mali. For details, please refer to page 174 of this document.
Other general information available to the DIRB describes the
religious orientations of the various ethnic groups in Mali. For
details, please refer to the attachments from Encyclopedia of
the Third World and Islam and Islamic Groups.
This response was prepared after
researching publicly accessible information currently available to
the DIRB within time constraints. This response is not, and does
not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular
claim to refugee status or asylum.
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Edited by Farzana Shaikh. London: Longman Group UK Ltd.
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Islam and Islamic Groups. 1992.
Edited by Farzana Shaikh. London: Longman Group UK Ltd., pp.
153-54.
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