APA – Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) – The European Union and the United States have called on the junta in Ouagadougou to shed light on a new massacre of civilians.
Nearly a hundred civilians, including women and children, were killed in a massacre on Monday, November 6 in the village of Zaongo, in the Centre-North region of Burkina Faso, according to several sources.
No official sources have commented on the incident, except the diplomatic corps accredited in Ouagadougou.
On Friday, the United States said on X formerly Twitter that it was “shocked and saddened by news of the massacre,” which it condemns ”in the strongest terms.”
In a statement on Sunday, November 12, the European Union called on the transitional authorities “to shed full light on the circumstances of the massacre in order to determine who was responsible.”
A security source said an investigation has been launched to shed light on the massacre, pending a statement from the authorities.
“It is difficult to put a number on it because the bodies have not been named without any real report,” a local national told VOA Afrique.
The killings, whose perpetrators have not yet been identified, came two days after clashes between Burkina Faso’s armed forces and insurgents.
The country has been caught in a spiral of violence blamed on jihadist groups since 2015, which has left more than 17,000 people dead and more than two million displaced.
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