In Burkina Faso, several dozen people, mainly women and children, were killed Wednesday during an armed expedition in the village of Zaongo, in the Center-North region. Neither the perpetrators nor the motive for this massacre are yet known. The government has made no official communication on this tragedy.
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In the images circulating on social networks, we can see women and children, for the most part, and bullet holes on their bodies. The massacre took place in Zaongo, in the Center-North. “ The village has been controlled since 2021 by armed terrorist groups. It’s one of the rare ones not to have been chased away ”, according to residents of the region.
One of the explanations put forward for this attack would be the fact that the young people having fled the village, there were no longer any strong forces to control the commune. And the remaining villagers would have refused to welcome the Volunteers for the Defense of the Fatherland (VDP), to ensure this control against the jihadists.
Unknown motive
Some rumors suggested, according to residents of neighboring villages, that Zaongo was collaborating with terrorists lurking in the region. “ These residents were suspected by neighboring villages of being collaborators with terrorist groups. », Testifies a national of the area. “ There was an attack not far from the village two days before the massacre, and when tracking down terroriststhe Defense and Security Forces went there », Explains yet another source, without further details
For the moment, neither the perpetrators nor the motive for this killing are known with certainty. The official authorities have made no communication on this subject. Several security sources unofficially confirm the killing of civilian populations in this village.