Highlights: In Burkina Faso, a rare testimony in this country plagued by increasingly regular and deadly abuses. This testimony is that of a man who miraculously escaped the killings. In villages located between the towns of Gayéri and Fada N'Gourma, armed individuals in uniform engaged in real carnage, according to a survivor whose testimony RFI collected. The number of dead can reach 150 people and the injured exceed 40 because the soldiers took a few wounded and took them to gayéri.

In Burkina Faso, a rare testimony in this country plagued by increasingly regular and deadly abuses. This testimony is that of a man who miraculously escaped the killings of…

Burkina Faso: the chilling testimony of a survivor of the Bibgou and Soualmou massacres

In Burkina Faso, a rare testimony in this country plagued by increasingly regular and deadly abuses.

This testimony is that of a man who miraculously escaped the killings in the Gayéri region in the east of the country at the end of February.

In villages located between the towns of Gayéri and Fada N'Gourma, armed individuals in uniform engaged in real carnage, according to a survivor whose testimony RFI collected (illustrative image) AFP - OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT

By: RFI Follow

Yacouba is one of the survivors

of the Bibgou and Soualmou massacres

on February 29.

In these villages, between the towns of Gayéri and Fada N'Gourma, armed and uniformed individuals carried out real carnage, according to this man, first on concessions inhabited by Fulani.

And then on the gourmet population.

“

Around 2

p.m., the soldiers came to the villages.
When they arrived at the Fulani, they found no one.
They had all fled.
They burned their houses.
We stayed with our families, they told us to line up.
Before they even fired, everyone raised their hands.
The soldiers said to give up.
They lowered them and then the soldiers shot at them.
The number of dead can reach 150 people and the injured exceed 40 because the soldiers took a few wounded and took them to Gayéri.

While it seems that the military was looking for terrorists.

This witness, who had the reflex to lie down during the executions, cannot explain the reason for such reprisals against civilians.

“

After that, I got up.
I went to see where our family members were killed.
My father is dead, my mother and my wife too, she is dead.
There are children, pregnant women, old women... They were all killed.
Now we wonder why?
It's incomprehensible !
That's how it happened.

If an investigation was launched by the Ouahigouya prosecutor into

a similar massacre of civilians

near the Malian border.

Concerning Bibgou and Soualmou, on February 29, the government information service, contacted by RFI, said it had no information on these attacks.

Burkina Faso: the chilling testimony of a survivor of the Bibgou and Soualmou massacres

Burkina Faso: the chilling testimony of a survivor of the Bibgou and Soualmou massacres

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