Dozens of Malians demonstrated Tuesday in the central town of Bankass to demand state protection after suspected Muslim extremists massacred at least 132 civilians, and possibly many more, in nearby neighbouring villages. The mass killing – the latest in a series of attacks across the Sahel \- resulted in one of Mali’s highest civilian death tolls. The government says fighters from the Fulani religious leader Amadou Koufa’s armed group, the Katiba Macina, killed 132 civilians in Diallassagou and two surrounding villages, a few dozen kilometres (miles) from Bankass. JUST IN: Jihadists attacked …