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Sunday, February 17, 2013

Timbuktu residents savor freedom, tales of resistance

Residents of Mali’s famed desert town, newly free of the militants who imposed harsh Islamic rule, return to the life they enjoyed before the occupation.

TIMBUKTU, Mali — There were public protests and whispers of secret love affairs. Heroes of resistance everywhere: the female fishmonger who angrily knocked down one of the occupiers, the imam who sent them away from his mosque, the elderly sheep trader beaten for complaining about their ill treatment of others.mf

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