According to Amnesty International: "ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCE LEADING TO EXTRAJUDICIAL EXECUTION: A CASE IN NIONO In Niono - 350 km north-east of Bamako - Malian soldiers abducted a person held by the gendarmerie (military police). The man’s body was found three months later. Ousmane Yatassaye, a 40 year-old merchant who used to trade between Mali and Mauritania, was arrested on the 15 January 2013 in Niono. He was summoned by the commander of the local gendarmerie who wanted to know the nature of his telephone communications with Mauritania as he felt they were suspicious. After being held one night at the gendarmerie, he was taken away the following day by six Malian military who came in a vehicle to fetch him. Despite believing that the military had no right to take him, the gendarmerie was not able to oppose any resistance to the Malian soldiers. During a mission in January and February 2013, an Amnesty International delegation met the commander of the gendarmerie in Ségou and inquired as to the whereabouts of Ousmane Yatassaye. They were told that this person had been handed over to the Procureur de la République (state prosecutor) in Ségou. Three months later, around the 24 April 2013, Ousmane Yatassaye’s relatives told the local authorities that his body was buried in a mango orchard in Niono alongside the military camp and the house of the governor. Members of the judiciary from Niono and Ségou accompanied the police onsite and found the body buried a few centimetres below ground. Although the body was not recognizable, his identity card was found on him and he wore the same shoes as at the time of his arrest. During a meeting with the Amnesty International delegation in Bamako on the 3 June 2013, the Minister of Justice told Amnesty International that an inquiry had been opened into this case." ^[+]