Rights group reports multiple summary executions in Mali Malian soldiers have carried out multiple summary executions since the start of a French-backed offensive against Islamist extremists, a rights group charged on Wednesday. The Paris-based International Federation of Human Rights Leagues (FIDH) called for the establishment of an independent commission to investigate reports that could undermine France's efforts to drum up support for an intervention it has justified on moral grounds. Images and soundbites of Head of Africa Office FIDH (International Federation of Human Rights) in Bamako