“Armed men moved around the village at around 5:00 pm, firing in the air. They came back at night and blindly opened fire on people.”
“Kill them wherever you find them” (Qur’an 2:191, 4:89, cf. 9:5).
An update on this story. “34 Killed In Two Jihadist Attacks In Burkina Faso,” Agence France Presse, July 4, 2022:
Suspected jihadists killed at least 34 people in attacks on villages in northern Burkina Faso at the weekend, officials and sources said Monday.
In the northwest of the country, 22 people, reportedly including children, were killed late Sunday at Bourasso in Kossi province, said Boucle du Mouhoun regional governor Babo Pierre Bassinga.
“Armed men moved around the village at around 5:00 pm, firing in the air. They came back at night and blindly opened fire on people,” a security source said.
In northern Burkina Faso, 12 people died on Saturday in an attack at Namissiguima in Yatenga province, another security source said, also speaking on condition of anonymity.
Three of the dead were members of a civilian militia, the Volunteers for the Defence of the Fatherland (VDP) — an auxiliary force set up in December 2019 to support the army.
Burkina Faso, one of the poorest countries in the world, has been grappling with a jihadist insurgency that swept in from neighbouring Mali in 2015.
The campaign, led mainly by groups linked to Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group, has claimed thousands of lives and forced some 1.9 million people to flee their homes….
somehistory says
murderous mozlum terrorists everywhere. Should anyone be criticized for saying mozlums are taught to hate, give in to rage and murder innocent people the world over?
should not the excuses and false claims of ‘they are not all terrorists’ stop? Enough of the worldwide group designed for terror…”strike terror into their hearts”…actively carry out the evil demands to say it is a part of their DNA that they engage.
The day will come when it all ends and terrorism is not more
born saturday says
the jihad in all of africa, and genocide taking place there, is funded armed supported and ordered strategically from the ottomaniac chalifate turkey of the billion dollar palace sultan who is enjoying the wealth of kataris upon the starving but faithful to jihad muslims of turkey as long as he continues the genocidal islamization of the world…