{"id":127389,"date":"2024-03-04T09:08:26","date_gmt":"2024-03-04T14:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=127389"},"modified":"2024-03-04T18:34:47","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T23:34:47","slug":"bbc-burkina-faso-says-170-dead-in-village-executions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=127389","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) Burkina Faso says 170 dead in village &#8216;executions&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some 170 people including women and children have been &#8220;executed&#8221; in attacks on three villages in Burkina Faso, a public prosecutor has said.<\/p>\n<p>Aly Benjamin Coulibaly appealed for witnesses to help find those who attacked Komsilga, Nordin and Soro.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, the army warned of the increased risk of attacks by Islamists, &#8220;including attacks on urban centres&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The country&#8217;s army seized power in 2022, but more than a third of Burkina Faso is controlled by insurgents.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-68462144?zephr-modal-register\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Burkina Faso says 170 dead in village &#39;executions&#39; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Dl2MTc1Zuk\">https:\/\/t.co\/Dl2MTc1Zuk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCWorld\/status\/1764278084411298235?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 3, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some 170 people including women and children have been &#8220;executed&#8221; in attacks on three villages in Burkina Faso, a public prosecutor has said. Aly Benjamin Coulibaly appealed for witnesses to help find those who attacked Komsilga, Nordin and Soro. Separately,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=127389\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[542,438,143,106,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-burkina-faso","category-death-burial-funerals","category-defense-national-security-military","category-military-armed-forces","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127389"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127392,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127389\/revisions\/127392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}