Peul

So, as so often, it is members of the Peul community who find themselves the prime targets for such brutal reprisal in a nation desperately in need of peace and stability.

Most of those killed in Moura were from the Peul ethnic group, according to the rights group.

They built their villages on high ground, with cliffs for lookouts and caves to hide in, and for centuries battled the Fula, or Peuls, who make up about 25 percent of Senegal’s population.

He is a member of the Peul, or Fulani, community.

Both buildings and cultural objects have been lost resulting in the "deterioration of cultural practices and traditions of the Dogon, Peuls, Bozo, Bambara and Sonrhai groups", Unesco said in a statement.