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Barsalogho Massacre: How Defensive Trenches Became a Mass Grave
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2024/09/04/burkina-faso-barsalogho-massacre-attack-jihadi-militia-military-human-rights/Barsalogho Massacre: How Defensive Trenches Became a Mass Grave
September 4, 2024
WARNING: This report contains references to killings and graphic violence that some readers might find distressing.
Videos circulating online show the moment militants killed more than 100 unarmed residents digging defensive trenches in Barsalogho, Burkina Faso, last month.
Footage shows those killed lying in trenches dug to protect their town.
Satellite images also reveal that extensive new trenches were dug around Barsalogho immediately after the massacre.
According to Collectif Justice Pour Barsalogho (CJB), a collective formed by residents in the aftermath of the attack, civilians were forced by the Burkinabè army to dig the trenches on Saturday morning, August 24, when they came under attack from Al Qaeda-affiliated Jama’at Nasr al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM). Bellingcat was not able to independently verify this claim.
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September 4, 2024
WARNING: This report contains references to killings and graphic violence that some readers might find distressing.
Videos circulating online show the moment militants killed more than 100 unarmed residents digging defensive trenches in Barsalogho, Burkina Faso, last month.
Footage shows those killed lying in trenches dug to protect their town.
Satellite images also reveal that extensive new trenches were dug around Barsalogho immediately after the massacre.
According to Collectif Justice Pour Barsalogho (CJB), a collective formed by residents in the aftermath of the attack, civilians were forced by the Burkinabè army to dig the trenches on Saturday morning, August 24, when they came under attack from Al Qaeda-affiliated Jama’at Nasr al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM). Bellingcat was not able to independently verify this claim.
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