Appalling toll,

while the inhabitants were struggling to sleep soundly, due to the heatwave, armed men arrived at two in the morning. The first target was the Volunteers in Defense of the Fatherland. After neutralizing these auxiliaries of the Burkinabé army, the forces of evil have set their sights on civilians. According to local sources, the armed men went door to door and shot at anything that moved

sparing no one: children, young people, women and helpless old people.

Help arrived around 5 am.

But the damage was already done.

The terrorists had had time to do their dirty work of murder.

The unspeakable happened in Solhan,

The youngest victim was 8 months old

It is the deadliest attack since 2016.

pogrom occurs when the Burkinabè army

had triggered in this area the operation Houné,

operation which is still in progress and which made it possible to neutralize several terrorists. This killing therefore turns out to be a challenge to this operation, if not a snub. Mourning for 3 days

Today, until midnight Monday, flags at half mast, compassion coming from everywhere

All are united in these dark moments in Burkina Faso.

Once again, the Land of upright men is in the limelight for terrorism, with a slaughter that gives goose bumps.

In Burkinabè's memory, since 2015, the start of the terrorist attacks, the country had never recorded such a killing. 

Solhan indeed has an important gold site which must be coveted by armed bands who do not hesitate to exploit the mineral resources of the zones under regulated cutting, thus making the exploitation of gold, one of the major sources of terrorist financing in the Sahel countries.

The stake of this massacre would therefore be to sow chaos, conducive to the illegal and illicit exploitation of gold deposits to fuel smuggling which in turn fuels terrorism in West Africa. 

it's time to end the whining!" 

It is urgent to make our valiant Defense and Security Forces more operational by providing them with the best in logistics. It is urgent to make the intelligence services more efficient, to always be one step ahead of the terrorists who, in reality, sow chaos to protect the roads from all kinds of trafficking. Because the fight is by no means religious. It is urgent to prevent young people from continuing to be recruited by these armed men

Inclusive development, cleverly balanced with the military response, seems, moreover, to be the real response to these attacks which are more the work of bandits than of religious warriors.

It is also urgent to move quickly, even very quickly, to national reconciliation and therefore to the reconquest of lost social cohesion.

Finally

urgent

that each Burkinabè be a soldier in this asymmetrical war imposed on us by the forces of evil, who take advantage of the active or passive complicity of some to sow death and desolation, with disconcerting ease.