Burkina Faso\u2019s military forces \u201csummarily executed\u201d 223 civilians, including at least 56 children, in two villages in February, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said in a new report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The mass killings took place on February 25 in the northern villages of Nondin and Soro, Al Jazeera said, quoting the HRW’s report published on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The rights group said that soldiers killed at least 44 people, including 20 children, in Nondin, and 179 people, including 36 children, in nearby Soro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to international organizations, civilians in Burkina Faso have been caught in the middle of and displaced by the fighting between armed groups linked to al-Qaeda and ISIL (ISIS), and security forces. Conflicts across the African country have killed almost 20,000 people and displaced more than two million, reports confirmed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Burkina Faso\u2019s military forces \u201csummarily executed\u201d 223 civilians, including at least 56 children, in two villages in February, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said in a new report. The mass killings took place on February 25 in the northern villages of Nondin and Soro, Al Jazeera said, quoting the HRW’s report published on Thursday. The …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":104120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"yes","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[6947,31],"tags":[7753,7754,4110],"class_list":["post-104117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-burkina-faso","category-news","tag-burkina-fasos-army","tag-civilians-killing","tag-hrw"],"yoast_head":"\n