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UNBELIEVABLE: Armed groups terrorising burkina faso hrw | History Defined

People killed by al-Qaeda-linked JNIM in August outside the town of Barsalogho, Burkina Faso. Ordered by the authorities to dig trenches, they were killed in reprisals by the armed group [File: Reuters]

Armed groups with links to al-Qaeda and ISIL (ISIS) have escalated attacks on civilians in Burkina Faso, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said in a report.

Publishing the report on Wednesday, the NGO documented the killing of at least 128 civilians in seven attacks by “armed groups” across the country since February 2024 that “violated international humanitarian law and constitute war crimes”.

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