Burkina Faso: Behind the “Libération” smear campaign, the sovereign march of the people continues
Alongside the brilliant victories won on the ground by the valiant fighting forces (FDS and VDP) of Burkina Faso, another, equally fierce war is playing out in the plush lounges of Western capitals. The latest pamphlet, published by the French newspaper “Libération”, is blatant proof.
Through a narrative straight out of a noir novel laced with Kafkaesque references and convenient anonymous testimonies this media outlet tries to sell the world the illusion of a “repressive machine” crushing Burkina Faso under Captain Ibrahim Traoré.
But the strings are too visible. The sovereign people of Faso have learned to decode the grammar of destabilisation.
The tactic is as old as imperialism itself: when you can no longer control a people through arms or debt, you try to sully them with slander.
By parading a fictional character named “Robert,” allegedly arrested by National Intelligence Agency (ANR) officers wielding “hammers and chains,” this Parisian newsroom abandons journalism for political science fiction.
This theatrical staging of information complete with lurid quotes designed to shock Western readers reveals an absolute factual void.
No concrete evidence, no verifiable identity, no serious methodology. Just armchair journalism, remote‑controlled from abroad.
Why such desperation, and why now? The answer lies on the security‑sovereignty front.
Under the head of state’s leadership, Burkina Faso has made the historic choice of refoundation and a complete break with the neocolonial order.
Burkinabe intelligence services, once infiltrated and hamstrung by predatory agreements, are now fully nationalised, patriotic and fearsomely effective.
The ANR and security forces dismantle internal complicity networks daily, neutralise destabilisation plots and cut off supplies to imperialism’s local lackeys.
Precisely because the security shield is working that the scolds are panicking. Demonising the ANR is an attempt to psychologically disarm Burkina Faso.
It is richly ironic to see the press from a country that theorised interference networks and covered up so many colonial abuses lecturing a nation fighting for its right to exist.
Those who invented or tolerated concepts like global secret prisons and large‑scale arbitrary detention have no moral legitimacy to judge the necessary rigour of a state engaged in an existential war.
In Burkina Faso, every decision, every governance choice is guided by a single imperative: to protect the homeland and guarantee the regained dignity of its citizens.
Faced with these remote‑controlled manipulations, the Burkinabe people’s response is to close ranks.
No hit piece will break the sacred union between the nation’s leadership, its fighting forces and its civil society.
Civic vigilance remains active, unbending. As the Sahel States Confederation (AES) paves the way for a liberated Africa, the Land of Honest People has no time to listen to imperialist sirens.
The march of history is irreversible, and Burkina Faso continues to press full throttle toward its total liberation.
Maurice K. ZONGO
