Burkina Faso: The Fulani community in HRW’s crosshairs, the despicable blackmail of destabilisation
OUAGADOUGOU — A fresh wave of disinformation is saturating the digital space of Burkina Faso. Assertions of extreme gravity, drawn from a report by the organization Human Rights Watch, are currently spreading virally on social platforms. The document accuses the Volunteers for the Defense of the Homeland (VDP) of carrying out a so-called “Operation Zero Fulbe.” This narrative, entirely lacking factual rigor, is part of a psychological warfare strategy aimed at tarnishing the image of the revolution of Burkina Faso.
Under the cover of feigned moral outrage, this organization persists in brandishing the specter of ethnic cleansing, desperately trying to isolate Captain Ibrahim Traoré and discredit the fighting forces.
One must be willfully blind or criminally bad faith to dare speak of an “Operation Zero Fulbe.” This rhetoric, forged in the laboratories of foreign subversion, has a clear objective: to ignite the fire of a civil war that the Burkinabe people, in their age-old wisdom, have always refused.
By targeting the Volunteers for the Defense of the Homeland (VDP) this popular shield that today makes the mercenaries of obscurantism bite the dust local social media relays relying on the HRW report are attempting to morally disarm the nation.
These reports are not investigative documents; they are political manifestos intended to fracture the sacred unity between the Army and its people.
The memory of Solenzo in 2025 is still fresh. At that time, a massive disinformation campaign, fueled by truncated videos and fabricated testimonies, sparked coordinated international outrage.
Massacre was cried out; apocalypse was predicted. Yet the reality on the ground cruelly disproved these doom-laden prophecies: the populations, all ethnic groups combined, celebrated their liberation by the defense forces.
The Solenzo episode was merely a trial run of the hybrid warfare we are experiencing today.
HRW and its digital accomplices are not seeking truth; they are seeking to create an informational lawless zone to justify future interference.
The vision of Captain Ibrahim Traoré’s vision is clear: terrorism has no ethnicity; it has only one face, that of the enemy of the nation.
The current struggle is a war of national liberation, not an identity-based witch hunt.
By instrumentalizing the Fulani community, the primary victims of terrorist atrocities, these international organizations make themselves complicit with those who want to see Burkina Faso collapse from within.
It is a conscious and structured Pan-Africanism that responds to these attacks: we refuse that our identities be transformed into powder kegs by foreign hands.
Burkina Faso is no longer the playground of the apprentice sorcerers of international communication.
The nation will remain indivisible, because no false report, however loud, can ever prevail over the truth of a people who have taken their destiny back into their own hands.
