In this Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012 photo, Maouloud Ould Sidi Mohamed, the sole known survivor of a military-led massacre in central Mali, shows the gashes on his feet, sustained as he hid in the forest for five days, at the Mauritanian Embassy in Bamako, Mali. On the night of Sept. 8, Malian soldiers opened fire on the car in which at least 17 Muslim preachers, nine of whom, including Mohamed, were from neighboring Mauritania, were traveling to a religious conference in Bamako. Within 1½ hours of the car being stopped by soldiers, 16 of the 17 men were dead. Mohamed managed to hide between the cadavers in the bed of the truck, and then to escape, losing his shoes as he fled. He was eventually recaptured by Malian soldiers and held for a week before being released to the Mauritanian embassy for repatriation following intense diplomatic pressure. (AP Photo/Rukmini Callimachi)
