The jihadis are operating with impunity in West Africa, amid virtually complete global indifference. Muslims as violent attackers doesn’t fit the narrative, which has them cast solely as victims.
“Four jihadist attacks leave around 30 dead in Burkina Faso,” Agence France-Presse, January 21, 2023 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
Four suspected jihadist attacks have left around 30 people dead in Burkina Faso, including 16 volunteers backing up the army, security sources said on Friday.
The attacks, which happened on Thursday, were the latest to hit a civilian auxiliary force supporting the military in their seven-year fight against jihadists in the volatile West African nation.
Since 2015, Burkina Faso has been grappling with an insurgency led by jihadists affiliated with Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group that has killed tens of thousands and displaced around two million people.
The ‘first attack targeted an advance party of Volunteers for the Defence of the Fatherland (VDP) in Rakoegtenga,’ a town in the northern province of Bam, a VDP official said on condition of anonymity.
Six auxiliaries and a woman died in the attack, he said.
Around 10 people were wounded, including some seriously, who were ‘evacuated to Ouagadougou for appropriate care,’ the VDP official said.
He said the second attack killed around 10 auxiliaries and a person in Nayala province in the northwest ‘in the afternoon when a convoy escorted by auxiliaries and soldiers was ambushed.’
Security sources confirmed two ‘jihadist attacks’ but gave no precise death toll, referring only to ‘a number of losses’.
The VDP, set up in December 2019, comprises civilian volunteers who are given two weeks of military training and then work alongside the army, typically carrying out surveillance, information-gathering or escort duties.
Two other incidents linked to armed jihadist groups were recorded on Thursday, according to other security sources. In the north-central province of Sanmatenga, a joint military and VDP team was targeted in Zincko, one of them said.
‘About 10 terrorists were neutralised (killed). Unfortunately, four civilians were also killed,’ the source said.
Later in the evening, gunmen raided the town of Sanaba in Banwa province, killing eight civilians….
Gary Fouse says
What I find fascinating about the situation in so many African countries is that the local media-obviously under state control-are not informing the public of what is really going on. Sidwaya, a FRench-language newspaper in Burkina Faso, is reporting today that the situation is much more secure now. You see the same tendency in the Congo and other African countries. It seems they don’t want their people to know that they cannot control these events in certain parts of their countries.
https://www.sidwaya.info/blog/armee-burkinabe-la-situation-securitaire-sest-globalement-amelioree-malgre-les-pressions-dans-certaines-localites/
Walter Sieruk says
Such murderous jihadist/Muslims as reported in this article are so despicably evil. Such a vicious character as those jihadists is described in the Bible in Romans 3:15-17. Which reads, “Their feet are swift to shed blood; destruction and misery are their ways; and the way of peace they have not known.” [N.K.J. V.]