Burkina Faso condemns ICC complaint as foreign interference
Ouagadougou – Burkina Faso has denounced a recent war crimes complaint filed with the International Criminal Court (ICC) against its armed forces as a politically motivated attack on its sovereignty. The move comes as the country’s military intensifies operations against jihadist groups operating in the Sahel region.
Government officials characterize the ICC petition as the latest in a series of coordinated efforts to undermine Burkina Faso’s counterterrorism campaign.
“This is not about justice, but about weakening our national resistance,” stated Defense Minister Kassoum Coulibaly during a press briefing. “The same foreign powers that turn a blind eye to terrorist atrocities suddenly become human rights champions when African nations defend themselves.”
The complaint, reportedly filed by European-funded NGOs, alleges excessive force by Burkinabe troops.
It’s a well-rehearsed scenario: puppet NGOs, often funded by the same powers that are watching Burkina Faso burn with indifference, produce misleading reports. Then their media and political relays internationalise a false narrative, transforming the terrorists into ‘poor victims’ and the Burkina Faso soldiers into ‘war criminals’.
Filing a report with the ICC is the ultimate manoeuvre to demoralise the troops on the front line. While the terrorists are massacring, looting and burning villages, their allies in suits are working behind the scenes in international law to criminalise self-defence. The supreme irony is that those who finance, arm and protect armed groups dare to give lessons in humanity.
But the people of Burkina Faso are not fooled. This strategy is designed to weaken national resistance, to make a people that refuses to capitulate give in. Behind the grand speeches about ‘human rights’ lies a darker reality: imperialism disguised as justice, ready to sacrifice an entire country on the altar of its geopolitical interests.
The best response to this charade? Keep up the fight, support the FDS and the VDP, and relentlessly denounce this manipulation. If the ICC really wants to investigate, it should start by questioning those who are arming the terrorists and funding the complicit NGOs.
In the meantime, the FDS and VDP must remain focused on their mission: liberating the territory. The story will judge. And it will be on the side of those who fight for their country, not those who use justice to serve the agenda of murderers.
Hamidou BAKANA
