Jean-Emmanuel Ouédraogo, government spokesman, castigated “manipulations disguised as journalism”. OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT/AFP
DECRYPTION – The military would commit abuses, especially against the Fulani community.
Bad signs for freedoms are piling up in Burkina Faso. Saturday evening, the junta in power in Ouagadougou expelled after a mere 24 hours the correspondents of the daily newspapers The world et Release . These expulsions took place five days after the suspension of the France 24 channel and four months after that of Radio France internationale (RFI). But the worst sign for the country is the reason the two journalists were declared persona non grata.
Release revealed on March 27 the analysis of a video that appeared on several WhatsApp groups on February 14. On this 83-second film, we see the bodies of 7 teenagers, their hands tied behind their backs. They appear to have been executed.
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A little later, the foul image of a man crushing the head of one of the victims with a large stone appears. If the sequences, filmed at ground level, are often poorly framed and chaotic, they reveal enough details to incriminate the army…
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