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Published on 2024-03-23 20:47:07
Burkina Faso: Government Appalled by Biased Allegations from a News Agency Against Combating Forces
Ouagadougou, March 23, 2024 (Africa Links 24) – The Burkinabe government has strongly condemned on Saturday the “biased” and “malicious” allegations made against the Combating Forces, accused with “levity” in an article by the news agency, Associated Press (AP), regarding the killings in Zaongo.
“The government of Burkina Faso strongly condemns the biased and malicious allegations against the Burkinabe Combating Forces, accused with levity by the news agency, Associated Press (AP), in an article entitled: ‘Burkinabe security forces increasingly kill civilians’,” the statement read.
According to the same statement, the said article was also fully reproduced on the Africanews website under the title, “Burkina: survivors recount the massacre of Zaongo.”
Based on the “testimony of three alleged ‘survivors’,” AP tries to sell the idea to the public of what it describes as a “significant increase in civilian killings by the security forces of Burkina Faso,” the document lamented.
In this regard, the agency highlights the “certainties” of these supposed witnesses regarding the fact that the perpetrators of these massacres “were members of the security forces, not jihadists” because they were “dressed in military uniforms, one of them with a Burkinabe flag attached to him,” the same document adds.
The government is appalled to see that an agency like AP can base its conviction on such simplistic explanations.
“It is to be feared that it has resorted to hiding under the guise of journalism to take an active part in the orchestrated communication campaign against Burkina Faso, the barely veiled aim of which is to discredit the Armed Forces and Security Forces (FDS) as well as the Volunteers for the Defense of the Homeland (VDP) who are courageously and professionally leading a heroic fight to reclaim our territory and peace,” the statement concluded.
Burkina Information Agency
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Translated by AI
Read the original article(French) on Agence d’Information du Burkina
