Burkina Faso: Events in Nouna/Government condemns and warns against hate and ethnicist publications.
In a statement released on Sunday, January 8, 2023, the Burkina Faso authorities denounced and condemned hateful or ethnicist comments made on social networks following the tragedy in Nouna (capital of the province of Kossi, located in the Boucle du Mouhoun region), which occurred during the night of December 30-31, 2022, and which was immediately investigated by the courts.
“The government deeply regrets the hateful comments or ethnicist overtones noted recently on the networks … and condemns outright the glorification of terror wherever it comes from and whoever the perpetrators are,” reads the government statement.
Through this note, the Burkinabe authorities invite “all Burkinabe to abandon any spirit of communitarianism that is detrimental to peace in Faso, to social cohesion and to our living together”, in a context where the sons and daughters of the country must show solidarity against the common enemy that is terrorism.
“Our communities have always lived in perfect harmony and worked together for the development of this country that we all love. To give in to hatred and division would be to fall into the trap of an enemy that is on the run and against which our commitment to triumph is more than ever affirmed,” the government said, before warning “those who will be guilty of inciting hatred and violence.
In addition, it invites “all victims of threats to immediately refer to the competent structures and assured that the law will remain in force”.
Just after the events in Nouna, the authorities issued a communiqué expressing their solidarity with the bereaved families and calling for unity among the sons and daughters of the nation: “These events must not distract us from the priority objective of uniting the sons and daughters of our nation in diversity for the fatherland and freedom,” the government said, reaffirming its commitment to work for the protection of all Burkinabè without distinction.
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