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Burkina Faso rejects Human Rights Watch’s report on village massacre as ‘baseless’

In this file photo Burkina Faso soldiers stand guard, in Ouagadougou on October 8, 2022. © Olympia de Maismont, AFP

Military-ruled Burkina Faso has rejected as “baseless accusations” a Human Rights Watch report that soldiers killed at least 223 villagers in two attacks on February 25.

“The government of Burkina Faso strongly rejects and condemns such baseless accusations,” Communications Minister Rimtalba Jean Emmanuel Ouedraogo said in a statement late on Saturday.

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