When the Soldiers Meant to Protect You Instead Come to Kill – AuthenticAfrican

Posted on by Ruth Maclean and Finbarr O’Reilly

Extremists and vigilantes are killing civilians in the West African nation of Burkina Faso, but so are soldiers, sowing fear and suspicion in a country that had once prided itself on its strong social fabric. We traveled to the country’s volatile far north to investigate the abuses.