Burkina Faso: 7,600 people flee jihadist violence, emptying the village

 

June 14, 2021

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Reprinted from Jihad Watch

 

In the minds of the woke, all lives really do not matter, not when it’s black-on-black crime or black jihadists murdering innocent black men, women and children. Only when it is a white perpetrator is it deemed to be the kind of murder that is worthy of attention from the woke media.

Imagine if white supremacists had emptied an entire village of nearly 8,000 people, only because they are the wrong race or creed. The news would be on front pages everywhere. Yet as families in the Burkina Faso village of Solhan in Yagha province ran for their lives to escape rampaging jihadists, the irresponsible activist media has not prioritized this story as it should have. “Journalists” do not want to appear “Islamophobic.” Also:

More than 138 people were killed in an attack on the village of Solhan on Saturday, and 40 were seriously wounded, though local sources put the death toll higher.

Again, virtual silence in the mainstream Western media.

“Burkina Faso village emptied as thousands flee jihadist violence,” RFI, June 9, 2021:

More than 7,000 people have fled a village in Burkina Faso that was attacked over the weekend, adding to tens of thousands already displaced by a jihadist insurgency in the country.

More than 138 people were killed in an attack on the village of Solhan on Saturday, and 40 were seriously wounded, though local sources put the death toll higher, making it the deadliest attack since the start of a jihadist insurgency in 2015 that has been targeting civilians and soldiers.

The attackers in Solhan “burned almost everything, houses, the market, the school and the dispensary”, a local official said.

As a result some 7,600 people fled to Sebba, the capital of Yagha province, 15 kilometres away.

Communications Minister Ousseni Tamboura said the village “has been completely emptied of people”.

A local official said that most of those who left Solhan, near the border with Niger, had already been fleeing jihadist violence, including in the Mansila district to the west.

The spokesperson for the United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, Babar Baloch said in Geneva that the displaced people include more than 2,000 children.

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