The international guardians of human rights will, as always, take little notice of this. It doesn’t fit the narrative of Muslim victimhood that is pushed everywhere, in defiance of any actual evidence.
“Bomb blast kills six children in Burkina Faso,” AFP, August 2, 2020:
At least six people, mostly children, died when an improvised explosive device went off in northern Burkina Faso…
The IED, which exploded as the group’s cart was passing late Saturday, also injured four others, they said.
Northern Burkina Faso is notorious for jihadist attacks which have killed more than 1,000 people there and displaced about a million more since 2015.
The victims were “nearly all children who were returning from grazing their livestock”, a local in Ouahigouya said. “The cart which carried some of them rolled over a mine.”….
Jihadist violence, which is often accompanied by inter-community strife, has killed more than 4,000 people in Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso…