Since over five years, EU troops, particularly from the Bundeswehr, have been training Malian soldiers. The Bundeswehr claims that „content and guidelines of humanitarian international law“ are an „important component of its training concept.“ The development in central Mali exemplifies how state discrimination and social conflicts foster jihadism – and how anti-jihadi military action, favored by Berlin and the EU – in Mali only leads to a steady deterioration of the situation and an increase in brutality