By RFIPosted on 07-11-2019Modified on 07-11-2019 at 18:49
In Burkina Faso, following the attack on the convoy of the Canadian mining company Semafo that left at least 38 dead and dozens wounded, the head of state Roch Marc Christian Kaboré who chaired a crisis meeting Thursday morning, s is addressed to the nation.
The president of Faso has treated this attack convoy workers of the mining company Semafo, unspeakable barbarity, cowardly led by unidentified armed individuals. " These despicable acts, " he said, " coming from another era, are aimed at sowing psychosis among our people and destabilizing our democracy. "
At the same time as he urges the Burkina Faso Defense and Security Forces to hunt down and fight, without concession, the terrorists and all their accomplices, Roch Marc Christian Kaboré believes that only a general mobilization will be able to overcome terrorism in Burkina Faso: " I ordered the recruitment of volunteers for the defense of the motherland, in the areas under threat. Only a general mobilization of the sons and daughters of the nation without consideration of religion, ethnicity, political opinion and religious confession is able to overcome these murderers who dream to submit our homeland to their Machiavellian dictatorship. "
Roch Marc Christian extends a pole to the Burkinabe who are out of the country in the name of the highest interests of the nation. " I invite Burkinabes from within and without the sacred union to defend the best interests of the nation under threat. "
While remaining convinced that the Burkinabe will be able to face the terrorism, opposing the victorious resistance, the president of Faso decreed 72 hours of national mourning as of November 8th.
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