The Times of India and VOA News ran this AFP story. The link and excerpt below go to the VOA News version. The two versions are identical except for the headlines, both of which carefully refrain from referring to the jihadis (who are, in an unusual departure from the establishment media norm, referred to as such in the article) as “terrorists.” The Times of India headline puts “terrorist” inside quotation marks, as if it is a disputed appellation: “Five killed in ‘terrorist’ attack in Burkina Faso.” VOA News leaves it out altogether, going with “Five Killed in Attack in Burkina Faso.” This is in accord with the standard establishment media practice of downplaying and often outright denying the nature and magnitude of jihad activity. It is in accord with the moral equivalence that the media elites are trying to inculcate among their targeted populations, softening them up to accept mass Muslim migration into the West and more.
“Five Killed in Attack in Burkina Faso,” Agence France-Presse, September 2, 2023:
OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO — Four Burkina Faso army auxiliaries and a Burkinabe policeman have been killed in an attack in the center of the country, the army announced Saturday.
“Following an attack on Friday against a VDP position (Volunteers for the Defense of the Homeland, civilian auxiliaries to the army) in the vicinity of Silmiougou,” police units were deployed as reinforcements, the army general staff said in a press release….
In mid-July, Burkina Faso’s transitional president, Captain Ibrahim Traore, who seized power in a September 2022 coup, deplored the “increasingly recurrent attacks against civilians,” saying the jihadis were displaying cowardice.
The apparent motive for the country’s two coups in recent years was anger at failures to stem a jihadi insurgency since it spilled over from neighboring Mali in 2015.
More than 16,000 civilians, troops and police have died in jihadi attacks, according to an NGO count, including more than 5,000 since the start of this year.
More than 2 million people have also been displaced within Burkina Faso, making it one of the worst internal displacement crises in Africa….
Linde B. says
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John Smith says
Good on you Linde, I’m going to do the same.
Linde B. says
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somehistory says
The fake LE in Washington, D.C, had no problem calling the crowd who were invited inside the Capitol building and accepted the invite, “terrorists.”
It’s all a matter of whether the Truth matters. The Truth, the whole Truth and nothing but the Truth, doesn’t matter to most of today’s media, as it doesn’t to those in places of political power.
Hide the terrorism of mozlums with a few missing words and inserting non-descriptive nouns and adjectives.
Devasur says
MSM are pimps to Islam, so you can’t expect them to be truthful.