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REBELLION: AL-JEBHA 305movie is inspired by the Book of Genesis – chapters 23 to 37 – on the brothersJacob, the pastoralist, and Esau, the hunter, and Hamor, the farmer from whomJacob bought a piece of land. The story focuses on the conflict between Hamorand Jacob over the raping and kidnapping of Jacob’s daughter Dinah by Hamor’sson Sichem (Genesis 34: 1-31). The movie is explicitly set in a Maliancontext. It was shot on location in Hombori and Ansongo, two villages that hadsuffered under the conflict. Jacob and his family wear Tamasheq clothes(topped with Fulbe hats) and live in Tamasheq tents. Hamor and his familywear the traditional attire of Mande farmers. After the scene of revenge onHamor’s village by Jacob’s sons for kidnapping their sister, a long scene ofabout twenty minutes follows. This scene depicts how both parties, presented inthe film as cousins, are reconciled by concluding a senankuya pact to stabilisetheir peaceful relationship after war. Sissoko explained the subject of his film inan interview.I wrote the script of this film about fratricide five years ago [i.e. in 1995], and itshows what is happening in my country right now, in the southwest and in thenortheast. Something like one hundred and fifty people died recently in a conflictbetween the Soninke and the Fulani. There are also conflicts between Arabs andMoors in the area around Gao. (...) In the film, you have peasants and farmers. Theylive together for centuries. They know each other very well, and they share manythings. But because they know each other so well, they also have many reasons tohate each other. In the film, like right now in Mali and across Africa, they arechoosing to focus on these. Why? They share customs, they marry together. Butbecause of poverty, because of money, there is all this jealousy and envy and ultimatelyfratricide. 97Parallel tot the Inter Community Meetings the UN organisations UNIDIRand UNDP actively supported the disarmament of the rebel movements, includingthe Ganda Koy, and their integration in the Malian Army or in civilsociety. Most important in the reconciliation between the Ganda Koy and theMFUA movements was that the latter agreed to integrate the Ganda Koy in theNational Pact. More prosaically put, Ganda Koy fighters could integrate into theMalian Armed Forces under the provision of the National Pact. This meant theGanda Koy gave up its resistance against the Pact. It was now no longer seen asprivileging the nomads and therefore ‘directed against the sedentary populationof the North’. The integration of former rebels into the Malian Armed Forcesand into civil society was organised along the lines of a proposal made byUNIDIR consultant Lieutenant-General Henny van der Graaf. On the initiativeof President Konaré, and as part of a more general study on this topic in WestAfrica, van der Graaf and his team had studied ways to halt the spread of small97Interview with Cheik Oumar Sissoko by Ray Privett, 03/01/2000.http://www.britannica.com/magazine/article?content_id=252652&pager.offset=30